Tag: fantasy

With the Fall 2018 issue of the Park Slope Reader this past October has come a new installment of the beautifully drawn, historically-tinged, fantasy mystery Tales of the Night Watchman: The Ghost Train. The Night...

From humble self-made beginnings to big name publishing, Andrew MacLean brings forth an exciting, unique, dark, hilarious epic with the adventure of Norgal, a.k.a. The Head Lopper. I have to say, amidst the usual...

The four-issue miniseries is set in a world where aliens and humans live side-by-side in society.

Swordplay? Check! Norse Cities in the Sky? Check! Centaurs? Check! Bitter Feuding Brothers Unite to Fight a Bigger Threat? Check!

The first issue of the follow-up miniseries is a perfect jumping-on point for new readers.

Over the years that I’ve contributed for The Beat, I’ve gotten to preview some pretty-interesting projects in the making, as well as talk to their equally-interesting creators. A little more than two years ago, I had a phone interview with two women who called themselves the “Gibbs Girls.” They were working on a steam-punk inspired comic that takes place at the dawn of the 20th century and during the Industrial Age. The story followed a female, African American inventor named Ada Turner who creates the first flying machine. Last week, the Gibbs Girls reached out and informed me that the comic had finally come out.

"We wanted little kids reading the book to see that they could go to San Francisco and in essence walk the path that they walked and feel like that you could be on their adventure too."

“There are only two questions you can answer if you’re going to write: What is it, or what if. No genre but fantasy lets you answer so successfully for ‘what if.’”

In many urban fantasy books, the city in which the story takes places does more than act as a setting. Often, the city also becomes a character of its own.

Fresh takes on long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Fantasy author Daryl Gregory’s newest novel, Spoonbenders. centers around the Telemachus family in the very distant and backwards year of nineteen-ninety-five. The Chicagoan family are anything but normal as they were once known “The...

Box Brown (Retrofit Comics, Andre" is serializing a new unnamed comic that deals with fantasy/superhero/video game elements as an unnamed hero deals with the tedium of grinding, and argues with another explorer over the life of crystal thieving. It's a few pages in, but another solid entry in the "magical kingdom" genre of indie comics. Jump on board!