Fernando Ruiz and Dan Parent, former Archie Comics artists, teamed up for a Kickstarter at the end of last year to put out Die Kitty Die!, a parody series about a large-breasted witch whose comic publisher is trying to kill her. (Dan Parent was the driving force behind the Kevin Keller introduction, giving Archie its first out gay character, but with the publisher’s revamp, the two haven’t been doing as much work for Archie. And after this series, I expect […]

Put together in one place like this, a history of Wonder Woman’s costumes becomes a catalog of detail tweaks, with differences only noticeable to the fan or the obsessed. Until you get past 2006, where the entries are just crazy. The paragraph explanations sure brought back memories, though. Image Created by HalloweenCostumes.com

The manga adaptation of Sherlock, A Study in Pink, now has a release date, June 8; a price point, $4.99 for 52 pages; and preview art available. Here are two of the pages, relettered in English. The book won’t be flipped but will read right to left. Titan Comics has also released a flock (or maybe, as a group term for detectives, a consult?) of variant covers, shown below.

Melanie Gillman, one of the editors of the queer paranormal romance anthology The Other Side (Kickstarting soon and launching this spring), has posted a set of comic strips covering “tips about pitching to comic anthologies”. They start with the obvious, “follow directions”, but they also cover the very important (and not as well known as it should be) rule that a pitch is different from marketing copy in one important way: the pitch has to cover how the story ends. […]

The immensely talented Roger Langridge has published a short comic strip debunking the idea that people create in a vacuum and emphasizing the importance of connecting with others. His statement that “without an audience, any creative act is a complete waste of time” is a provocative one, and I’m curious to see how people respond to it. That site, by the way, is full of great short comics like this one. Check it out.

I very much enjoyed reading Maris Wicks’ Human Body Theater last fall. She’s skilled at true-life comics; she also illustrated Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas. I was glad to see, then, that she draws a webcomic, Your Wild City. Written by Rosemary Mosco and updated weekly, the educational comics are about urban nature. Here are a couple of favorites: Your Wild City: Tthunderstorms Your Wild City: Resolutions (excerpt)

Melanie Gillman (As the Crow Flies) has posted a terrific rundown of 2015 in comic form, arranged by lessons learned in a first year of full-time freelancing. These are the two that resonated most with me.

Akiko, the charming SF adventure comic series by Mark Crilley, celebrated its 20th anniversary at the end of last year. I loved this comic! (I have a piece in issue #50 saying so.) It was published by Sirius Entertainment, which also put out Artesia, Joseph Michael Linsner’s Dawn, Poison Elves, and the Scary Godmother comics, but no longer appears to exist. Akiko was the story of a girl’s journey through space with an alien, a robot, a scuzzy rogue, and […]