Comic Publishers Aren’t Looking for Writers

At least, that’s the message I took from Steve Morris’ useful round-up of submission guidelines for comic writers. The best-known flat-out don’t accept unsolicited submissions. Others only want to see completed comics or, at least, pitches from creative teams with several pages of sample art, which means an aspiring writer has to find an artist to team up with. You want to write comics? You’re going to have to do a lot of work, including talent review and networking. This […]

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A Valuable Reminder for Comic Women

The following sketch was done for me by Rob Walton (Ragmop). I thought it was from the one and only Philadelphia Comicfest in 1993, but googling suggests it was more likely 1996. Release dates confirm that, since the Ragmop comic started in 1995. As you can see, it says “We women have to stick together.” That’s his character Alice on the left, and well, me on the right. I’d stopped by his table to tell him how I liked his […]

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Tonight at Madison College: Writing for the Comic Book Industry Panel

KC will be appearing tonight at Madison College as part of their Writer’s Life Lecture Series. “Writing for the Comic Book Industry” will feature KC Carlson, former DC Comics editor and current writer on comics history Cory Carani, a Raven Software video game artist and former inker on Legionnaires Jeff Butler, a 30-year veteran of the comic book industry and as moderator, Larry Hansen, journalism instructor at Madison College The discussion will take place at 7 PM at the Downtown […]

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Happy Non-Existent National Comic Book Day! Have Some Free Comics

Apparently, today is National Comic Book Day, although no one knows why. But at least ComiXology is giving away 25 free comics, today only, to celebrate. They’re from Boom!, IDW, Oni, and Valiant, for the most part. I really liked their feature where you could add them all to your cart, apply the discount code, and then remove the ones you didn’t want. I ended up only with a handful — some of these have been given away before, and […]

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New Kingsman Trailer Emphasizes Action

I’m guessing the folks behind Kingsman: The Secret Service want to show viewers what they’re waiting for, now that the film has been moved from next month to next February. Here’s the official second trailer. (For comparison, I previously posted the first.) This one has more Samuel L. Jackson as the bad guy, a lot less Michael Caine. It’s centered on an action scene with Colin Firth and his umbrella — yay for more Firth! — with a lot more […]

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Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey

One of the most amazing things about the explosion of graphic novels in the current era is how many great non-fiction comics have come out. One might argue whether or not book publishers are too focused on “graphic memoir” these days, but if I can read more stories like this bizarre true-life story of Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, I don’t mind. The early 1900s was the “heroic age of Antarctic Exploration”, where daring men struggled to find out more about […]

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A Curious Man

The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert “Believe It or Not!” Ripley I hadn’t thought about “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” in years. I remember reading it as a kid, before the internet made it much easier to find these kinds of weird factoids and information about different cultures. And that’s why Neal Thompson’s biography of Robert Ripley appealed to me — it reminded me of a long-ago time when the world was a much larger, more unusual place. Ripley […]

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The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place

Would you like to read a mashup of Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, and Lumberjanes? Then The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, by Julie Berry, is the book for you. The seven young women at St. Etheldreda’s School for Girls have been sent there because their parents find them too unladylike in one way or another. To make clear the “shame” they each bear (and help the reader keep them straight), each is referred to with a demeaning adjective, such as […]

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