NYCC ’14 panels you missed: Geeks of Color Go Pro
by Edie Nugent
The main stage spectacles of NYCC saw panels filled with celebrity actors and moderators alike, whipping thousands of screaming audience members into a frenzy. No less intense or enthusiastic, however, were the...
Broken legs, death threats and fatwas: the trials and tribulations of THE 99
By Naif Al-Mutawa
Many years ago, I was the volleyball counsellor at a summer camp in New England. It was 1990 and I was fit for five minutes. It seems there’s always an injury I...
Conservative comics: if only we hadn’t gotten rid of the Comics Code
Last week I told you about The Forgotten Man, a graphic novel adaptation of Amity Shlaes' history of the Great Depression by Chuck Dixon and Paul Rivoche. As Shlaes is a well known conservative...
“But where are the conservative mangas and graphic novels?”
A graphic novel is dropping this week called The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition: A New History of the Great Depression . It's a 320 page history of The Great Depression, adapted from Amity Shlaes...
Top Shelf to donate MARCH BOOK ONE to every member of Congress.
Well, a digital copy anyway. MARCH BOOK ONE, the comics autobiography of civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, has had a heck of a run since its August release and is now making another...
Rick Geary announces crowdfunder for Obama conspiracy chapbook
Rick Geary's first Kickstarter for The Elwell Enigma has just shipped—and I was just enjoying my digital comic bonus last night— but no rest for the wicked, so his Kickstarter manager Mark Rosenbohm has...
Preview: “The History of Nonviolence” from Occupy Comics #3
Occupy Comics #3, the final issue of the Kickstartered anthology, came out today, and to celebrate the release — as well as the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech—Black Mask Studio made a preview of "The History of Non-Violence" by Caleb Monroe and Theo Ellsworth available.
SDCC ’13 safety tip: stay away from San Diego’s creepy, sex-harassin’ mayor!
Even as Comic-Con descends on our hearts and minds each year, like a monstrous kaiju from the rift, sometimes real world concerns affect the locals. This year, it's a doozy, as San Diego's recently...
Webcomic Alert: Stop trashing the millennials by Matt Bors
Pocitical cartoonist Matt Bors is sooooo good, and his strip on the generation gap between boomers and millennials is the best thing I have read about it, and it helped me accept the fact...
President Clinton blurbs MARCH graphic novel
When you get a genuine American hero to write a graphic novel about his life, you get a lot of attention. Thus it is that MARCH: BOOK ONE, the story of the civil rights...
Jailed Egyptian cartoonist Magdy El Shafee updates
As you may recall. last month Egyptian cartoonist Magdy El Shafee was arrested during a protest at Abdel Moneim Riyad Square in Cairo. El Shafee was freed after four days, but his arrest is a reminder of the difficulties with free speech and other basic civil liberties going on in Egypt right now.
Dallas Retailer Leads Way in Active Boycott of Orson Scott Card’s Superman Comic UPDATE...
There's been controvery over the past few days following DC's decision to hire Orson Scott Card, a pioneer in contemporary homophobia, as one of the writers on a new digital-first Superman anthology series. And...
