Blogs: Thing (comics)

but on the comics page cancer gets punchlines. We are dealing with a medium where authors can get away with daily poop jokes, daily “gosh that dog is big” jokes, and daily no joke at all but people keep reading. ...

I do not feel it is new, many comics used to beat their own chests. Why, you only have to look at many of the Marvel comics of the Seventies to see exactly the same process occurring. The thing that is different is the quantity of that ...

Another thing that comics people kept mentioning was missing this year was Comic Relief's booth--traditionally the place where Comic-Con attendees could easily find a lot of books by the show's guests, current best-sellers, ...

Smaller publishers like Dark Horse, Image, Oni, Archaia, IDW, and Boom all seemed to have bigger booths this year and a stronger presence. The one thing I took away from the San Diego Comic-Con was that it's good to be a comics fan ...

For one thing, if it wasn't for these hipster nerds, the comic industry could potentially be completely dead at this point. It can't be denied that these tourist geeks help to bring in a lot of cash every year. ...

I think somebody's going to create an incredible comic for the iPad and God bless them. It's not so much about the resistance of technology, but it was more about that making art versus making a living thing." ...

If you are thinking of “Teaming Up” with someone (or several people as the case may be), I would suggest you think about a few things before you jump into it with both feet. After all- a Comics partnership can be kind of like a Marriage ...

With 75 issues of "The Walking Dead" and a freshly earned Eisner award under his belt, it's safe to assume that Robert Kirkman knows a thing or two about zombies. But the comic book creator and Image Comics partner is exploring ...

Scott Kolins' art was quite strong on this series, and Oeming has the various characters down pat (and the idea of having the whole thing tie in with Sasquatch's origins and the demons of Tanaraq was clever). ...

was Sin City - and with that movie, they literally used the comic as storyboards! The movie very much kept Scott Pilgrim's essence at heart throughout the entire thing, and in that regard I really enjoyed and appreciated it. ...