September 9, 2013 Johanna Motion Comics One comment

Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk

As I previously wrote, Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk converts the six-issue comic miniseries by Damon Lindelof and Leinil Francis Yu to six 10-minute-ish “motion comic” chapters. It goes on sale tomorrow, September 10. The level of animation is lighter than I remembered from previous releases. For example, lips are made to move for dialogue, but eyes never blink, and nothing else on the page/screen moves. Movement looks like someone’s dragging paper cutouts around, or it’s done by moving the camera […]

September 8, 2013 Johanna Other Publishers 3 comments

Mixtape #3 Available, Plans for Rest of First Arc

It’s tough out there for an indy comic, particularly one telling slice-of-life stories about young adults. There are plenty of webcomics one can read for free with similar setups, so it requires a great deal of quality to stand out and justify the cover price. More, there’s the whole distribution question. People don’t know they want your comic unless they see it and know it exists, and that requires somewhere they can browse it, which requires a storeowner to take […]

September 6, 2013 Johanna Comic News One comment

Smut Peddler Returns for 2014, Submissions Now Open

This is so much fun! C. Spike Trotman and I are again seeking submissions for the women-friendly erotica anthology Smut Peddler. The new volume is planned to publish in 2014. We’ve already invited a number of wonderful ladies to contribute — Trudy Cooper, Danielle Corsetto (with Randy Milholland), Joanna Estep, Jess Fink, Ghostgreen, Polly Guo, Niki Smith, Faith Erin Hicks, Kate Leth, and Jen Vaughn — but there’s room for more. Check out the submission guidelines page and if you’re […]

September 4, 2013 Johanna Mysteries Leave a comment

The Impersonator

Although in her 20s, Leah works as a teen dancer in vaudeville until the family act breaks up. With no other options, she takes a job from “Uncle Oliver” — who wants her to impersonate his long-lost niece Jessie, sole heir to millions of dollars (which means even more in 1924) and missing for almost seven years. It seems mostly harmless, a way to share the inheritance, although Oliver has secrets of his own and, Leah suspects, a mean streak. […]

September 1, 2013 Johanna Other Publishers One comment

Dumbing of Age: This Campus Is a Friggin’ Escher Print

I’m sure Dumbing of Age, by David Willis, is one of those webcomic strips that I’ve only just found but everyone else has been reading for ages. Still, I enjoyed it, and I want to talk about why. Reason #1: There’s a book, Dumbing of Age: This Campus Is a Friggin’ Escher Print. The comic has been running for three years, with a large cast, but I can jump back to the beginning and find out who everyone is* with […]

August 31, 2013 Johanna IDW / Top Shelf Leave a comment

Polly and Her Pals 1933

Polly and Her Pals 1933 reprints that year’s worth of the daily comic strip often described as surreal. Without the Sundays, you won’t see cartoonist Cliff Sterrett’s most imaginative layouts, but the characters and situations are still funny, if not as artistically accomplished in the smaller space. It’s in the Library of American Comics Essentials format, which means the book is short and wide, the shape of a comic strip, with each day’s entry getting a full page. The series […]

August 26, 2013 Johanna Graphix / Scholastic Leave a comment

The Lost Boy

You’ve likely read something like the plot of The Lost Boy before — kid moves to new house with a history, discovers a fantasy world beyond the gate / through the trees / inside the cupboard. In this case, Nate finds a reel-to-reel tape recorder under the floorboards. The long-disappeared Walter Pidgin had used it to record his observations about the odd things he saw, things no one else seemed to notice. Things like a grasshopper in a suit and […]

August 25, 2013 Johanna Comic News Leave a comment

One Week Left to Submit to the Strumpet

The Strumpet, a transatlantic anthology featuring lady cartoonists from the UK and the US, is accepting submissions for its third issue — but there’s only a week left, since the submission period ends September 1. The first issue had a dress-up theme; the second one was about travel. The third will be “the tasty issue”. The issues are funded in part by Kickstarter, with successful campaigns for issue one and issue two. Watch for a third this fall. I’ve enjoyed […]

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