Interview: Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood

In case you didn’t read this week’s Publishers Weekly Comics Week (and shame on you if you didn’t), you should head over to PWCW and check out my article on IDW’s art books, Sparrow and Swallow.
They’re odd, interesting projects, with some amazing art (they include a great variety, so it’s a guarantee that you’ll like [...]

How do you fix the comics industry?

Over the past week or so, I’ve been emailing back and forth with Hudson Phillips, a screenwriter and fellow Atlantan, and Kevin Mellon, a comics artist, about essentially The State of the Union of Comics.
Hudson posted the conversation at his Web site, so if you have some foolish interest in reading me trying to sound [...]

The Batman story I want to read

At the moment, we’re in the midst of the latest death of Batman storyline, this Grant Morrison’s Batman RIP. I can’t admit to being a fan so far, which isn’t solely because of the unoriginal, attention-grabbing ploy of possibly killing off a major hero.
Honestly, I haven’t been excited about Batman in a long time. Like [...]

A new hero in Metropolis

I’ve been off in Chicago the past week, which is why I haven’t written much here (or anywhere else, for a change!). On the way, we made a pit stop in Metropolis, Ill., and I became the hundred-thousandth person to strike a lame pose in front of the giant Superman.

Interview: Dean Haspiel & Jonathan Ames (The Alcoholic)

Another article in this week’s Publishers Weekly Comics Week, about the upcoming Vertigo graphic novel The Alcoholic, written by novelist Jonathan Ames and illustrated by Dean Haspiel, who is easily one of the most entertaining and hardest working people in comics.
The book is pure entertainment, brooding and hilarious. If you want to check out the [...]

Back to the drawing board

For the very minute modicum of notoriety that I possess (even that might be overstating things), I’m generally known as a comics critic, a journalist and a writer, or some combination of those three.
Most of my adult life has been spent pursuing one type of writing or another, with much of the past four years [...]

Interview: David Petersen (Mouse Guard RPG)

Another day, another interview.
I just spoke with David Petersen, writer and illustrator of the brilliant Mouse Guard series, about the upcoming Mouse Guard role-playing game. That interview is now up over at Comic Book Resources. I’ve honestly never played an RPG in my life, but Mouse Guard is one of the best books out right [...]