Image Expo 2015: All The News And Announcements In One Place
Image held the latest in its series of one-day Image Expo events in San Francisco on Thursday, putting a spotlight on a slate of new titles for 2015, and introducing some new creators to the Image...
View ArticleTamaki and DeForge Guide You Around the Butter Tarts of Toronto, Just in Time...
The butter tart is one of Canada's great cultural contribtutions to the world. The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) also fits squarely in that category. So it's apt that these two juggernauts of the...
View ArticleYouth in Decline's 'Frontier' Is A Comic You Should Be Reading
If you haven't been following it, Youth in Decline's Frontier is a comic that you should buy every single issue of --- and you can start anywhere. Frontier is created by a different cartoonist every...
View ArticleComicsAlliance's Guide to San Diego Comic-Con 2015: Panels To See On Friday
San Diego Comic-Con is underway, bringing over 130,000 people to enjoy the pop culture extravaganza taking place inside and outside the convention center. There is a lot to see and do every day during...
View ArticleWeekender: Art Attack on Titan, Rabbit Thoughts, And Million Dollar Tintin
The weekend is here! Put down your paperwork, throw your stationery out of the window, and do a victory spin in your office chair --- it's time to catch up on that greatest of all mediums: comics!...
View ArticleWeekender: Stela, Webcomics, Vampires and NSFW Bible Stories
The weekend is here! Put down your paperwork, throw your stationery out of the window, and do a victory spin in your office chair, because it’s time to catch up on that greatest of all media: comics!...
View ArticleWeekender: Emerald Distro, 'Peritale', and Stan Lee's Mega Mix Popcorn
The weekend is here! Take a look back at what’s happened in the past seven days. New comics, new stories, new podcasts, new art being made — it’s all part of the ComicsAlliance Weekender! Continue...
View ArticleDrawn & Quarterly Dominates 2016 Doug Wright Awards Nominees
This morning the nominees for the 2016 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning were announced. Presented each year at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, the Doug Wright Awards honor Canadian citizens...
View ArticleSweet Gigs: Best Band Posters by Comic Artists Ever
Gig posters have a long and beautiful history. Moving from simple block lettering in the '50s and psychedelic text in the '60s, modern gig posters are often gorgeous pieces of illustration and places...
View ArticleExplore Michael DeForge's Strange Nature In 'Sticks Angelica'
Who is Sticks Angelica? According to no less an authority than Stick Angelica herself, she is a 49-year-old former Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, and all-around hyphenate...
View ArticleMichael Deforge Stops the World and Melts With Rom, Batman and More
Whether you've encountered artist Michael Deforge's smiley, bulgy, and often melty visions in his Koyama Press-published series Lose or "Katamari Damacy" hamburger for charity, you...
View Article‘Perry Bible Fellowship’ Meets Galactus in the ‘Strange Tales II’ Hardcover
Marvel's Strange Tales anthology returned with its second series last October, winning our hearts yet again by pairing up a long list of indie and webcomic creators like Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant),...
View ArticleMichael DeForge: Making the Most Exciting Work in Comics Today
When something truly unique and unexpected hits the comics world, there's always a strange silence that takes up the aftermath. Michael DeForge is sitting in that silence right now, after hitting...
View ArticleLink Ink: Walmart Plugs Digital Captain America Comic, ‘Spotting Deer’ For...
Digital Comics: It looks like Walmart is getting in on the digital comics game by linking Captain America: First Vengeance #1 (which you can ready for free) via its online Cap store. Webcomics: I echo...
View ArticleBoom! Reveals Four Upcoming ‘Adventure Time’ #3 Covers
Though the first issue of Boom! Studios' new Adventure Time comic is still a week away from arriving in stores, cover art from the ongoing series just keeps on coming. Just as Adventure Time #2 is...
View Article‘Little Heart’ Comics Anthology for Marriage Equality Reaches Kickstarter Goal
Little Heart is a proposed anthology comic in support of marriage equality, presenting stories and vignettes about love by an impressive roster of cartoonists and illustrators from around the world,...
View ArticleBreakfast Gets a Makeover in Michael DeForge’s ‘Adventure Time’ #3 Backup...
In our world breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day, but the Adventure Time kingdom ruled by Breakfast Princess and her sister Toast Princess, conventional morning grub like bacon...
View ArticleLink Ink: Superhero Ice Pops, The Dark Knight Golfs And ‘Ant Colony’
Art: Vincent Vermeij imagines ice pops bearing superhero motifs. Upcoming: Drawn and Quarterly has announced that it will publish Michael DeForge's Ant Colony. Vehicles: The Dark Knight appears to be...
View ArticleKoyama Press Announces 2014 Publishing Slate
Koyama Press announced its lineup of new comics for spring 2014 this week, and the three collections and one original graphic novel in the group look pretty doggone fantastic. Cat Person collects Seo...
View ArticleBest Art Ever (This Week) - 08.30.13
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images...
View ArticleMichael DeForge Leads Your 2013 Ignatz Award Winners
Taking place in Bethesda, Maryland this weekend is the Small Press Expo, or SPX, arguably the biggest indie comics event of the year. And each year one of the highlights of the show is the...
View Article'Regular Show: Skips' #3 Preview
Don't you just hate it when your vacation turns into a time-loop addled adventure of mystery complete with corrupt cops? Modrecai and Rigby's immortal buddy and oftentimes mentor Skips does, and it's...
View ArticleBest Art Ever (This Week)
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, as well as the special qualities of comic book storytelling, but because cartoonists,...
View ArticleKoyama Announces New Comics And Kids Material For 2014
Koyama Press has unveiled six new books it has coming out this fall, and they run the gamut from avant-garde horror to cultural satire to funny-animal hijinks for all-ages. Check out the full list of...
View ArticleMichael DeForge On His Graphic Novel 'Ant Colony' [Interview]
A prophetic child, full of microscopic earthworms and coated in pollen by bees. The child's nihilistic, sociopath of a father. A cowardly police officer. A pair of homosexuals beginning to drift...
View ArticleSPX 2014 Celebrates Alt-Weeklies With Sturm, Feiffer, Barry
SPX, the Small Press Expo, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and to celebrate, it's centering its entire 2014 convention on a much-read -- but not-often-discussed -- type of independent...
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