Friday, March 20, 2015

Comic Round-Up: March 20, 2015

Star Wars: Journey to the Force Awakens - Shattered Empire #1 by Phil Noto

Star Wars: Journey to the Force Awakens - Shattered Empire #1 by Phil Noto


Event: Big Wow Comic Fest arrives to the San Jose Convention Center on April 18-19, 2015, bringing two days of comic books, art, and celebrity FUN!

Event: Megan Levens, artist of Ares & Aphrodite, Madame Frankenstein, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will appear at Earth-2 Comics in Sherman Oaks, CA on Wednesday April 15, 2015 from 6:30-8:30 pm! RSVP on Facebook!

Interview: Danielle Corsetto on ending her long-running Girls With Slingshots on her own terms and with the creative skill she could bring to bear.

Interview: Geoff Johns says he returned to Superman because he was interested in giving the Man of Steel a new confidante and the opportunity to work with John Romita Jr.

Interview: Kinoko talks to Jeannette Langmead.

Interview: Salem Wildfire discusses his webcomic Daughter of the Wolf, which is based on stories he makes up with his 5-year-old daughter Kenzie

Interview: Shaun Clancy talks to Michael Gross.

Interview: Wayne Vansant explains how he built a career working on war comics.

Reviews:  Paul O'Brien on Wolverines Vol. 2.  Scott Cederlund talks to Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki.  Bart Croonenborghs on Paris Revisited.  Sean Gaffney on Maria The Virgin Witch Vol. 1.  Jim Johnson on EI8HT #2.

6 awesome comic books you must read before the movies hit theaters

Brigid Alverson notes that webcomics are a significant factor in the reading history of many of the women readers that are going to have a lifelong relationship with the medium, and that this will engender its own set of values and market proclivities.

Christina Hennessy talks to Robert Reiner, whose collection of EC Comics is on display right now at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut; the exhibit is titled “KA-POW! When Comics Imperiled America.”

Here is why the comics world is fighting over a Batgirl cover.
Kevin J. Kelley profiles New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren, whose works are on display in the Luise Ross gallery in New York.

There is only one bookstore left in the Bronx, but several comics shops are thriving; the owners say it is because of the personal connection and the fact that comics readers like to check out new titles in physical format rather than ordering them online.


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