David Lasky draws ‘The Ultimate Batman Comic’
David Lasky (Urban Hipster, Don’t Forget This Song) created a strip he calls “The Ultimate Batman Comic,” and he’s pretty much right. If Bill Finger and Bob Kane had known then what we know now,...
View ArticleEdgar Rice Burroughs Inc. branches out into webcomics
Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., the company founded by the creator of Tarzan and still run by his family, has begun publishing webcomics based on six of the author’s most famous creations. Roy Thomas and...
View Article‘The Devastator’ #8 shows what’s so great about crossovers
The Devastator #8: “Crossovers” By Various Writers and Artists Edited by Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows People love crossovers. That’s not news, but I’ve never stopped and wondered why that is....
View ArticleHulk statue draws ‘largest turnout at the library ever’ [UPDATED]
The Northlake Public Library in suburban Chicago unveiled its Hulk statue earlier this month to a crowd of more than 300. ^Trustee Tom Mukite, who joined the board specifically to spearhead the statue...
View ArticleNeil Kleid prepares to weave his ‘Tapestry’
My original intention was to file this under “What Could Have Been,” but unlike a lot of failed-pitch stories, Neil Kleid’s (Brownsville, The Big Kahn) Tapestry appears to be getting a happy ending....
View ArticleNeil Kleid prepares to weave his ‘Tapestry’
My original intention was to file this under “What Could Have Been,” but unlike a lot of failed-pitch stories, Neil Kleid’s (Brownsville, The Big Kahn) Tapestry appears to be getting a happy ending....
View ArticleYoung & Madrigal’s ‘Here We Go!’ celebrates stories and moms
We’ve featured writer Jesse Young‘s comics a couple of times on Robot 6, first with his and Ha Huy Hoang’s DCU-baseball tale “Sunday at the Park,” and again with “Surprise, Surprise!,” the story he...
View ArticleVillains Month post-mortem with retailer Mike Sterling
When DC Comics announced Villains Month, it got people talking and not always in a good way. For every person saying it was a cool idea, there seemed to be at least one proclaiming it a jump-off point...
View ArticleThis weekend, it’s the Locust Moon Comics Festival
The second annual Locust Moon Comics Festival will be held in Philadelphia, with a larger space than last year’s showand more than double the number of creators. Hosted by Locust Moon Comics, the...
View ArticleMark Smylie returns to the world of Artesia in prose novel
Mark Smylie is important to comics for a couple of reasons: Not only does he make Artesia, an epic series of lushly drawn and intricately detailed military fantasy comics, but he also created the...
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