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Writing is Living: Negative Space is an Emotional Look at Writer’s Block
For one week in 2012, Facebook blatantly manipulated the posts nearly 700,000 users saw on their feed in order to gauge the impact the social media platform had on human emotion, removing positive or...
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Filling a Void: An Interview with Ryan K. Lindsay
Several weeks ago, Ryan K. Lindsay reached out to see if we wanted to take a peek at his upcoming new Dark Horse series Negative Space and talk to him about it. A quick glance at Owen Gieni’s...
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Filling the Void: An Interview with Ryan K. Lindsay Part Two
Several weeks ago, Ryan K. Lindsay reached out to see if we wanted to take a peek at his upcoming new Dark Horse series Negative Space and talk to him about it. A quick glance at Owen Gieni’s...
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Anatomy of a Page: Owen Gieni’s Negative Space #1
Comics are a visual medium, but so often criticism of the medium hinges on narrative, ignoring or minimizing the visual storytelling and unique structures that make comics so different from cinema and...
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Yellowed Pages: The Residents’ Freak Show
Sometimes we just want to talk about old comics we found in bargain bins or antique stores or in our garages. Is that so wrong? In this installment, we look back at Dark Horse’s 1992 collaboration...
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ymmv: Opening Panels
Your very first panel is insanely important, it’s pivotal, it’s you at your date’s door, flowers in hand, hoping to make a good impression. Or maybe an update on that is it’s your Tinder pic and you...
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The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part 2, 80-61
People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode...
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The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Three, 60-41
People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode...
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The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Five, 20-1
People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode...
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Saint, Super Mutants and One Punch Men: The Best Comics of 2015
2015 was a crazy year for comics, but it was also a year of creative explosions, with the small press and digital comics spheres in particular showing off incredible material. Most of our favorite...
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Questionable Comics: Daniel Chabon and Paul Allor
In today’s Questionable Comics we talk to an editor and a writer/letterer. Up first is Daniel Chabon, who edits a number of series for Dark Horse, including the new Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas...
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Being a Housewife Assassin Seems Boring in Lady Killer 2 #1
Lady Killer is a series built on one of my favorite concepts: women with immaculate makeup and giant heels murdering people (mostly men). Unfortunately, it is also a series falls back on using lazy...
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Questionable Comics: Jason Copland and Curt Pires
This week in Questionable Comics we’ve paired frequent collaborators Jason Copland and Curt Pires, the team behind some of our favorite indie series, including Pop and The Tomorrows, both published...
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Despite Margaret Atwood’s Byline, Angel Catbird Falls Oddly Flat
Margaret Atwood is old. She is the first to admit this, even in the introduction of her first graphic novel, Angel Catbird, where she discusses growing up during World War II and beyond, being a child...
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Kate Leth, Megan Levens Give Us the Start of a Satisfyingly Fun Romp with...
Spell on Wheels is like a dream for girls who grew up on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. It works especially well for girls like me who moved on to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Regardless of the difference in...
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Dystopic Homesick Blues: Martha Washington
I started this column figuring hoping I’d write entries in it building up to election day, then use it to look back at the reality we narrowly avoided. That didn’t exactly go as planned. Instead, I’ve...
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