You’ve probably heard by now that webtoons are the future of comics. They’re designed to be read easily on mobile phones. Have massive global audiences. The demographics skew young and female. But where should an aging indie comic book fan start with this new-fangled format? The webtoon medium is dominated by various combinations of YA, … Read more
I spend so much time excavating comics history that I often neglect to follow what’s happening in the present. So this is the first in what will be a series of collections of “mini-reviews” on more current comics. This time around I’m looking at some fairly mainstream “direct market” comics, but I’ll also dive into … Read more
Having touched at least briefly on the “Big Three Outlaw Comics,” I’m now moving forward in this article series to what I call the “Outlaw Comics Explosion. I still have some articles to backfill, such as the missing second part of the James O’Barr series, but over the next few months I’ll be covering Poison … Read more
I just published an article on the rise and fall of Cry for Dawn, the influential Outlaw Comics/horror anthology from the late 80s/early 90s. Co-creators Joe Monks and Joe Linsner were kind enough to provide lengthy answers to my questions. There was far more material than I could use in the article, so I’m publishing … Read more
I just published an article on the rise and fall of Cry for Dawn, the influential Outlaw Comics/horror anthology from the late 80s/early 90s. Co-creators Joe Monks and Joe Linsner were kind enough to provide lengthy answers to my questions. There was far more material than I could use in the article, so I’m publishing … Read more
Cry for Dawn was the third of the original “Big Three” Outlaw Comics, along with Faust: Love of the Damned and The Crow. The series was a horror anthology with stories initially written by Joseph M. Monks and Joseph Michael Linsner and illustrated by Linsner. In the early issues, Linsner provided black-and-white illustrations for Monks’s … Read more