Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Comic Round-Up: April 14, 2015


"The Avengers" by Cliff Chiang

Event: Bridge City Comics in Portland, OR is excited to announce a Girlfiend graphic novel signing party on Saturday April 25th, with Jacob and Arnold Pander!  RSVP on Facebook!

Event: Tim and Steve Seeley will appear at Toy de Jour in Chicago, IL on Saturday April 18th from 2:00-5:00 pm for a signing to celebrate the release of Dark Horse’s The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.   RSVP on Facebook!

Interview: Chris McDonnell profiles Devin Flynn.

Interview:  Emily Kinney on Reinventing The Bug-Eyed Bandit for The Flash

Interview: Meet Charlie Cox, Netflix’s "Daredevil"

Interview: Sydney Padua talks about rewriting history in The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, which debuts in print next month. 
News: Dynamite partners with BitTorrent for pay-what-you-want comics bundle

News: Olivia Munn Cast as Psylocke in "X-Men: Apocalypse"

Reviews: Todd Klein on Green Lantern Corps #39.

Cherry City Comic Con took place this weekend at the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem, Oregon, and organizer John Roach said it will be back next year.

A Comic Book Crash-Course in Captain Marvel

Comics, Everybody: The History of Daredevil Explained!

The "Daredevil" Binge-Blog at CBR offers episode summaries.

Farrago Comics is a digital comics service that’s sort of like Spotify: Users read comics for free, creators share the revenue from ads. CEO and co-founder Michael Fleischmann talks briefly about the company and its marketing strategy, which relies heavily on Facebook ads.

Here's one of those Walking Dead #1 variant covers that the Wizard shows do, this one for Las Vegas featuring a Gilbert Hernandez cover.

Megan Purdy hosts a roundtable on the topic of “Tumblr fans,” who supposedly dip into comics and take what they like, such as a particular character or incident, and will buy a T-shirt but not the whole comic. The discussion includes the peculiarities of Tumblr (such as the lack of attribution) as well as gatekeeping and what it means to be a “casual” fan.

Patrick McDonnell expresses his gratitude for the A Gift Of Nothing Helen Hayes Award.

Paul Sizer talks about melding graphic design and comics.

The Private Eye is a pay-what-you-want comic by Brian K. Vaughn and Marcos Martin about a world in which all the personal, private information of the internet has spilled out into the world.

Students in Professor Alan Shaw’s Comics as Art course at the University of South Florida are redesigning superhero costumes that they find sexually objectifying and will cosplay the new costumes at a special event Friday night

Superhero Origin Issue Covers


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