Tag: comics

aleskot:

Really happy about the increasing quality and honesty of critical discourse in comics in relation to racism and queerness

African-American writers, artists, comics creators: I’ve got something special coming up and I suspect you’ll be pleased.

I want to expose more new and/or underutilized African-American talent to editors, comics companies, readers & I believe I have a way.

I’ve done it on nearly every issue of Zero – every issue a new artist, usually under-seen. Many got new offers, new possibilities opened up

Now it’s time to do it again, in another way, for people who remain severely under-seen and sometimes actively erased by our society.

And by the comics industry as well.

I’m looking forward to telling you more next week. I’m excited. I believe what I’m doing is sorely needed.

White comics creators: MAKE. MORE. SPACE.

Lighten Up

tehnakki:

A Marvel colorist reflects on the subtle racism of shifting skin tones.

Ron Wimberly is an incredible artist and this comic really spoke to me (no joke, I’m still crying as I write this). I’m leaving it as a link to the website it’s posted on because the website works to display the comic accurately both on a computer and on mobile, and the layout of this comic is a big part of it’s impact. You should read this.

Lighten Up

superheroesincolor:

MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection

MOONSHOT is an incredible 200 page collection of short stories from Indigenous creators across North America, in comic book form!

“Produced by AH Comics Inc. (Titan: An Alternate History, Delta, Hobson’s Gate, Jewish Comix Anthology) and edited by Hope Nicholson (Brok Windsor, Lost Heroes, Nelvana of the Northern Lights), MOONSHOT brings together dozens of creators from across North America to contribute comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis storytelling.

From traditional stories to exciting new visions of the future, this collection presents some of the finest comic book and graphic novel work in North America. MOONSHOT will be an incredible collection that will amaze, intrigue and entertain!

Here are some of the talented artists and writers who will be creating original stories for MOONSHOT:

Claude St-Aubin (R.E.B.E.L.S., Green Lantern, Captain Canuck), Jeffery Veregge (G.I. Joe, Judge Dredd), Stephen Gladue (MOONSHOT cover artist), Haiwei Hou (Two Brothers), Nicholas Burns (Arctic Comics, Curse of Chucky, Super Shamou), Scott B. Henderson (Man to Man, Tales from Big Spirit), Jon Proudstar (Tribal Force), George Freeman (Captain Canuck, Aquaman, Batman), and more!
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MOONSHOT will be printed as a 200 page, full colour, high quality volume showcasing a wide variety of stories and artistic styles, highlighting the complex identity of indigenous culture from across North America. Most of the original stories created exclusively for this volume are between 5-10 pages, including pinup art and prose passages.

The traditional stories presented in MOONSHOT are with the permission from the elders in their respective communities, making this a truly genuine, never-before-seen publication!”

Check out their kickstarter

YES. yes. i do as well. p.s. i wanted to ask, what’s a good way to get into cap america/winter soldier comics without reading remender?

bothhavesharpteeth:

YES! THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD WAYS TO DO THAT

  1. Mark Waid’s Captain America: Man Out of Time is Steve Rogers 101, nobody nails Steve like Mark Waid does, and this miniseries is a perfect introduction to 616 Steve’s character, it’s self-contained, and it’s all around just a great, great read.
  2. Captain America: Theatre of War by Paul Jenkins is a series of one-shot issues featuring stories of Captain America’s influence on soldiers in many different global conflicts.  A great, emotional read that gives you awesome insight into Soldier Steve.
  3. Captain America & Bucky: The Life Story of Bucky Barnes by Ed Brubaker is really Bucky Barnes 101, a great abridged version of Bucky’s life story (including his time in WWII, as the Winter Soldier, with Natasha, and a peek at his life as Cap).
  4. Ed Brubaker’s run on Winter Soldier (out in three trades: The Longest Winter, Broken Arrow, and Black Widow Hunt),as well as Jason LaTour’s follow-up (out in trade as The Electric Ghost).  These are twin efforts on the first volume of Bucky’s solo book – Brubaker’s gets a little problematic toward the end (BWH), but it’s almost worth it read it to get to LaTour’s run, which was an outstanding five issues of characterization.
  5. Finally, of course, is Brubaker’s work on Captain America, Volume 5.  You can get a trade of the entire Winter Soldier arc (including his original introduction of Bucky as the Winter Soldier) here for astonishingly cheap.  This has all of the backstory and origin of the Winter Soldier, as well as the comics version of how Steve’s search for Bucky went down.

Carry on, my friend, rock on and read good comics.

And focusing on Marvel and DC at the expense of the dozens of other publishers in comics, and then declaring comics a failure at San Diego Comic-Con, is incredibly myopic. It’s a mistake to think that Marvel and DC are all that mattered, that their new events or announcements dictate the future of capital-c Comics. Marvel and DC are comics, just like the other publishers, and they make some great ones when they let the creators do their own thing. But at this point? You can’t treat them like the entirety of the comics industry, or even two companies that can dictate the future of comics. They run the movies, and that’s cool, but running comics? It’s just not true any more. Image in particular outsells Marvel in the book market as far as trade paperbacks go, and that holds true in the comics market lately, too. That’s no coincidence. People enjoy Marvel and DC, but they want more than Marvel and DC.

If the announcements from the Big Two felt lackluster, but the fans still had a great time, how did comics fail? That sounds like a Marvel & DC problem. Vertical debuted Moyoco Anno’s brand new book In Clothes Called Fat at the show, a comic geared toward adult women. They sold out of Fumi Yoshinaga’s What Did You Eat Yesterday?, a romance/cooking comic. At Image, we sold out of Greg Tocchini & Rick Remender’s Low, an aquatic sci-fi tale, and Nick Dragotta & team’s Howtoons, a comic geared toward getting kids interested in the science through practical play. Boom! burned through Lumberjanes, a comic about girls at camp. These aren’t your normal comics, and people were eating them up.

After two bad “Comic-Con was bad for comics!”/”Comic-Con was good for comics!” pieces, io9 lets iamdavidbrothers do his thing, and the result is—surprise surprise—a great piece that’s head and shoulders above the traditional (print) comic coverage on the site*.

(* I specify print because Lauren does really good webcomics stuff over there, because Lauren is great.)

We3 Digital Comics – Comics by comiXology

jamie-sf:

The unforgettable story of three innocent pets converted into deadly cyborgs by the military. They’re prototypes, slated to be permanently de-commissioned—until they make a desperate run for freedom. Relentlessly pursued, the WE3 team navigates a frightening world, seeking something called home.

Another recommendation – this one by Grant Morrison under the Vertigo imprint. It came out in 2004 and digitally in 2013. Disturbingly beautiful (it’s got animals and pet gore in it, skip this rec if that is a trigger for you) we carried it in the bookstore I was working in and I’d recommend it to folks who were looking for near future with a dystopian twist and were open to a graphic novel.

It’s heart rending in places.

wyomingnot said: My wish list on comixology continues to grow because of you. Are you getting a commission? 😉

jamie-sf: Hee! I’m glad my choices resonate with you. I’m surprised my text is that persuasive, honestly.  In this case the book is excellent and I like to recommend complete runs of things because that’s what works best for me. I have more recommends in my queue!

We3 Digital Comics – Comics by comiXology