In 2007, Sarah Glidden went on a Birthright Israel trip–a short tour of Israel offered to young Jewish Americans–to get a better understanding of a country she was deeply skeptical about. On her return, she started recounting her experiences in minicomics form. The first few self-published issues of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days …
The most interesting thing anybody’s written about comics this week is Shaenon Garrity’s column “Ten Things to Know About the Future of Comics”–a vision of what’s coming, based on her interactions with her students. I hope she’s right about most of her predictions, and only slightly wrong about a few. But since it’s nearly Halloween, …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan and Evan Narcisse discuss the Superman: Earth One graphic novel and the Beasts of Burden/Hellboy: Sacrifice one-shot.
DOUGLAS: Let’s go back to the first announcement of Superman: Earth One, …
To celebrate the premiere of The Walking Dead on AMC this Sunday, we here at Techland will be picking out our favorite formerly deceased monsters across comics, games, film and other media. The zombie myth’s been around for centuries and has been reinterpreted almost as much as vampire lore. At their most basic, though, zombies represent …
Victor Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together from pieces of dead men, is a great visual creation–although the way we imagine him to look often has more to do with Boris Karloff’s appearance in the 1931 Frankenstein movie than with Mary Shelley’s description in her 1818 novel. He’s appeared (usually identified simply as …
There weren’t a whole lot of vampires in American comic books before the early ’70s. Oh, there’d been a stray blood-sucker or two in the Golden Age, but comics tended to use them sparingly, and the original version of the Comics Code, in 1954, forbade the depiction of vampires (and other horror staples like zombies and werewolves) …
The big “Doonesbury” news this week is that G.B. Trudeau’s comic strip is reaching its 40th anniversary–its first episode ran October 26, 1970. (Trudeau’s celebrating the milestone with 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective, a mammoth book reprinting about 1800 strips.) A smaller but welcome piece of news is that this week also sees the …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Mike Williams discuss Soldier Zero #1 and the Vertigo Resurrected anthology.
DOUGLAS: Soldier Zero: well, that’s not the greatest hand Paul Cornell and Javier Pina were …
Yesterday, we spoke with Tony Daniel about his forthcoming Batman run; today, we’ve got a brief interview with writer Peter J. Tomasi about his forthcoming run on Batman and Robin. Tomasi and artist Patrick Gleason have been the team behind Green Lantern Corps‘ success over the last couple of years. They’ll be taking over with Batman and …
Tony Daniel was the main artist on the latter half of the Grant Morrison-written run of Batman, and for most of the last year, he’s been writing and drawing the series. Following a series of special issues around the “Return of Bruce Wayne” event (including a two-part sequel to “Batman R.I.P.” by Morrison and Daniel), he returns to his …
The Turf miniseries is one of this year’s most high-concept comics: the brainchild of British TV host (and In Search of Steve Ditko narrator) Jonathan Ross and Bullet Points/Marvel 1985 artist Tommy Lee Edwards, it’s a bonkers mashup of Prohibition-era gangster-flick tropes with aliens and vampires. Courtesy of Image Comics, we’ve got an …
It’s a zombie moment. Grey, shambling, undead ex-people are the most durable monster fantasy of right now, and hat goes double for comics, from The Walking Dead on down through Blackest Night and the unkillable Marvel Zombies franchise. Zombie stories are stories about assimilation–being robbed of one’s individuality and absorbed into a …
