Comics: All the Dead Superheroes #1

Click for full-size image All the Dead Superheroes is a continuing strip in fortnightly installments.  Full issues of the comic can be found at: www.allthedeadsuperheroes.blogspot.com Story and art © 2011 Iain Lau...

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Feature: Happy Birthday, Jack

Had he still been alive, Jack Kirby would have been 94 today.  In light of this, and recent events involving the Kirby estate, I reread Mark Evanier’s wonderful Kirby: King of Comics monograph today.  Seeing his fifty-year career compressed into a scant 200 pages is like witnessing someone being pummeled by a cage fighter — no matter where his career took him, he was continually being screwed-over by shysters, nepotists and outright liars;...

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Review: Casanova: Luxuria by Matt Fraction and Fábio Moon

Casanova: Luxuria - Matt Fraction (w) Fábio Moon (a) Image, $14.99, ISBN: 978-0-7851-4863-0 Poor Matt Fraction. His early work on titles like Mantooth and Five Fists of Science showed intelligence, creativity and a unique new voice in comics.  We knew he’d go on to bigger, better things. So, when he began work on Iron Fist and wrote those Thor one-shots that were seemingly soundtracked by Viking metal, it was exciting.  Sadly, it...

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Interview: Chuck BB

It seems unfair to call the art of someone so innately tied to metal music "pop", but Chuck BB's unique angular take on comics art is precisely that.  Injecting that sensibility into horror titles, and investing his manic energy into comics about black metal have marked him out as an unconventional, but vital voice in independent comics. With the second volume of Black Metal, his demons and vinyl-collecting epic with writer Rick Spears, about...

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Review: Nursery Rhyme Comics

Nursery Rhyme Comics - Chris Duffy (ed.) First Second, $18.99, ISBN: 978-1-59643-600-8 Old folk tales and fables have been a reference point for many successful modern comics — from the ubiquitous Sandman, through Hellboy and Fables, and more generally infusing the work of Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson and Richard Sala, to name but a few.  It seems, then, almost a no-brainer to trace this influence to its most primal and vital source: nursery...

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Interview: Joseph Lambert

From bucolic explorations of the seasons to child-eating monsters, the works of Joseph Lambert are some of the most original, thought-provoking and sumptuously-drawn comics to emerge in recent years. A graduate of the Center for Cartooning Studies in Vermont, his short stories have been published in various anthologies and in his debut collection from Secret Acres, I Will Bite You! I spoke to Joe over a glitching, distorted Skype connection about...

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