ComfyCon Holds an Online Webcomic Convention This Weekend

This weekend, starting at 4 PM Eastern, is ComfyCon! It’s an online webcomic convention with a number of live broadcast events. Check the schedule at the link to find out when you can watch Danielle Corsetto (Girls With Slingshots), Randy Milholland (Something*Positive), Spike Trotman (Iron Circus), Aaron Diaz (Dresden Codak), and others create comics, take questions from viewers, provide Kickstarter advice, and host tutorials. It’s a great way to celebrate webcomics without having to travel. Co-founder Corsetto has posted that […]

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Lies Are a Gentleman’s Manners

It’s odd reading a yaoi manga that’s set in the US among, as the book promotion has it, the “high-society set”. Seeing the fantasy interactions in a venue I know something about, though, makes the unrealistic reactions — as the two men kiss and fight and tease in high-drama style — all the more obvious, and thus all the more escapist. Lies Are a Gentleman’s Manners contains a set of stories about the same characters, revealing more of their motivations […]

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Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955

Review by KC Carlson Those of you who have been reading Fantagraphics’ exemplary Complete Peanuts series and think that the Sunday Peanuts strips included there (in black and white, and greatly reduced in size) are enough for you, well, you’re mistaken. If you’re any kind of Peanuts fan, and you get a glance at any page of the new Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955 collection — printed in a huge 12.75” x 10” format, and with the original colors restored — […]

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Man of Steel (Blu-ray Review)

Out tomorrow, November 12, on home video is Man of Steel, this summer’s Superman remake. I saw it for the first time this weekend on Blu-ray, and my first impression was that it looked very much like a modern superhero movie. Like many other films this summer, it had big-budget effects, a big plot with world-shattering potential impact, computer-generated fantasy environments, and big, noisy battles — but I was left with little sense of what made *this* story special. The […]

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Melanie Gillman’s Comic About Brands of Colored Pencils

Why don’t more artists make comics about their art supplies? Because few of them have this interesting a story to tell about them. Melanie Gillman has created a comic called “Why I’m Breaking Up With Prismacolor” about using their brand of colored pencils. Melanie is known for gorgeous shaded pencil work, so the selection of the right tool is important, and apparently, the brand has changed since Melanie was using them as a kid, now putting out an inferior product. […]

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The Snacking Dead

When I think zombies, I think the opposite of “yummy snacks”, but I suppose “eating brains” does suggest the munchies in some ways. The Snacking Dead by D.B. Walker is both a cookbook, focused on finger food and sandwiches (the kind of stuff I think of as “football food”), and a parody story of the zombie apocalypse. The recipes alternate with incidents in the life of Pam, a divorced woman trying to feed her two kids as the world collapses […]

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Marvel Announces Plans for Four Series on Netflix

Continuing the trend of original TV shows airing elsewhere than traditional television networks, Disney/Marvel announced plans to create live-action programming for Netflix. The four serialized shows will feature street-level, Hell’s Kitchen heroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage in at least 13 episodes each beginning in 2015. After “multiple years of original programming”, the four will come together in The Defenders, a “mini-series event” that will form them into a team. Netflix is also the “exclusive US subscription […]

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The Werewolf of New York: A Supernatural Law Book

I was surprised to see a new Supernatural Law collection. Frankly, the Batton Lash series had fallen off my radar when it went digital. Batton Lash put out a book, The Monsters Meet on Court Street, last year, but that was a reprint of issues from 2003 and 2004. The Werewolf of New York, in contrast, is a full-length color story new to print readers (although it was previously published in webcomic form). The storytelling, though, is the same as […]

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