Category: Features
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Interview: Cosplay Wig Makers The Five Wits at NYCC
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in InterviewsInterview with cosplay wig makers and artists the Five Wits at the New York Comic Con.
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Interview: Artist Echo Chernik at NYCC
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in InterviewsInterview with comic artist Echo Chernik at the New York Comic Con.
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Interview: Brain Food Comics at NYCC
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in InterviewsInterview with Brain Food Comics at the New York Comic Con.
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Interview: Comic Book Artist Guild at NYCC
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in InterviewsAn interview with the Comic Book Artist Guild at the New York Comic Con.
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Maximum Lifespan – Dr. Ed Park Interview
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in InterviewsA few months back I reviewed Dr. Ed Park’s Maximum Lifespan, an intelligent and multifaceted sci-fi thriller set in world where medical technology is close to unlocking the secrets of immortality. Ed, a Californian physician practicing Ob-Gyn, Laser Aesthetics and Anti-Aging, financed the book himself, and it has to be one of the slickest self-published…
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Interview: Andrew McGinn on Writing ‘The Legacy’
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in InterviewsI recently reviewed Andrew McGinn and David Neitzke’s The Legacy, a hilarious graphic novel about a young artist who inherits his father’s beloved newspaper comic strip “Simple Pleasures” and strives to make it the most offensive and reviled cartoon in America in order to get his commitment cancelled. The Legacy is sharp, genuinely funny and…
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Rubicon Publishing Takes Graphic Novels to the Classroom
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in FeaturesEarlier this year I featured a book called Fool’s Gold, an ambitious collaborative project from the Dearne High College in Rotherham, which aimed to encourage reading and writing in pupils. It’s always heartening to hear of comic books breaking though literary prejudices, and even more so to see comics enlightening children and teens. Contrary to…
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A Brief History of Comic Books
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in FeaturesIn this unrepentantly subjective feature I look at the evolution of Western comic books, the present state of sequential art, the medium’s digital potential and what publishers must do to ensure future interest. Depending on whom you ask, the comic book is dying, enjoying a creative renaissance, or slowly being integrated into largely non-profitable webcomics…