Thursday, November 13, 2014

Comic Round-Up: November 13, 2014

Sketch Sunday: Rocket Raccoon by Mark Are



Interview: Jim Butcher talks about moving from prose to graphic novels and about his Dynamite series, Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files: War Cry.

Interview: Len Wein: Batman ’66 "Quite Literally Saved My Life"

Interview: Scott Snyder discusses his Vertigo series The Wake: “For us, the tenet of the series when we signed on to do it was really to be unafraid to explore territory that you’re not supposed to. We wanted that to be the theme of the story itself and also the structural compass for the story, both for the art and for the narrative. So [artist] Sean [Murphy] and I made a deal to just challenge each other with elements that shouldn’t really work in a story, but we would try and make work through the elasticity of this storytelling.”

Interview: Scott Snyder Discusses His Final Joker Story, What's Next for "Batman"

Interview: South African creator Luke Molver discusses his comic Remember Emma, which premiered at the KA-BLAM! festival in Durban. His take on sexism in comics: “Just from a business standpoint it’s ridiculous because the market is halved. In my own work it took me a lot longer to learn how to draw girls – probably because they scared me and I suspect they still do.”


News: Comics Publisher Aspen Signs With Benderspink

News: Red Giant Entertainment has announced that retailers ordered about 900,000 copies each of its four anthology comics, which are ad-supported and will be given away for free. The company, which also releases digital comics and paid print comics, kicked off this program with a package of four zero issues on Free Comic Book Day.

Fantastic 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer gave superhero movies their dullest apocalypse 

From Maus to Chick tracts to Ms. Marvel, A. David Lewis counts down the 20 “most essential” comics about religion.  The second part of the list covers items 11 - 20.

The hook in Jerrod Dodson’s Terror Klowns is not just that it features evil zombie clowns, it’s that it features evil zombie clowns taking over an actual place — Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to be precise — and includes local landmarks.  I'm just grateful he's not writing about my hometown, because I would never sleep soundly ever again.

OK, so, it turns out, Victor Von Doom isn’t actually named Doom? And instead of being the horrifying ruler of Latveria, he’s a blogger? Because that...makes sense in a superhero movie? That your nemesis is a blogger? Predictably, the internet has a few things to say about this.


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