At the Burnside Powell’s right now there’s a big display featuring the Oni Press titles One Soul and Petrograd, both of which are currently on sale for 30% off—and both of which are great. Petrograd is a gorgeous piece of historical fiction about the assassination of Rasputin during World War 1, while the structurally audacious […]
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Starring Snoopy as the Shark
Yes, it’s a Jaws/Peanuts mashup. No, you don’t need to know why. Yes, it is amazing.
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Catwoman Is Gonna Steal Batman’s Motorcycle :(
Comics sound effect: “Yoink!” Movie sound effect: “BWWWWOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGG” Hey, it’s Anne Hathaway in a Skintight Catwoman Costume! She’s (maybe) stealing Batman’s ride! And from the looks of things, she’s already stolen Johnny Mnemonic’s hackin’ shades! WON’T ANYONE STOP ANNE HATHAWAY IN A SKINTIGHT CATWOMAN COSTUME’S REIGN OF PILFERING TERROR? (Please: No one stop Anne Hathaway […]
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Steve Said He’d Fire Me If I Didn’t Blog About the New Superman Costume
Superman: now a bank robber Despite the whimpering vart that was Green Lantern, Warner Bros. is bravely soldiering on to make another Superman movie so they can make some money before these pesky rights issues get really tricky because they really love Superman. They hired Zack Snyder to direct it; Snyder, most famous for fratboy […]
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Of Kirbys and Spider-Men
A quick heads up about two comics news stories, both of ’em having to do with Marvel: FIRST! In the wake of a judge’s decision that the heirs of seminal comics creator Jack Kirby aren’t entitled to any part of the copyrights related to the Marvel characters he created and co-created, comics artist and editor […]
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Forming Drops into Our Greedy Little Hands
I refuse to believe that comics publishing is doomed. Sure, the Xeric just decided we should all make webcomics, but that’s okay, Xeric; we’ll all just get published somewhere else. Maybe in Europe. Jesse Moynihan‘s Forming may not be the best example, because the West Philly artist posts pages to his blog every Sunday night. […]
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ComiCon Dispatch: Portlanders Win Awards, Sign Autographs for Can-Can Girls
Our photographer The One True B!x has been taking a ton of great photos this weekend at ComiCon here in San Diego and I stuck a bunch of funny ones below the cut. Check em out. But in addition to the comics industry’s largest convention being about eyecandy, it’s about business. Lots of it. There’s […]
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Sexual Politics: Cinderella and Friends Talk Sexy ComiCon Costume Conflict
Here at the chaos of ComiCon, I relax into letting the crowd push me forward, like an amoeba adrift. But often the crowd stops, hits a knot—something’s up ahead! Cameras are out! What is it? Why, it’s a shirtless Thor! A barely legal Tinkerbell! A smokin’ trio of Sailor Moons! Comic conventions are like Halloween. […]
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ComiCon Dispatch: Painting Batgirl with Joelle Jones
Everywhere at ComiCon is a mob. Pushing past movie company booths in a mob, stopping to snap photos of sexy Tinkerbell girl in a mob, waiting for the crosswalk light to change in a mob. Ironically, one of the quiet eddies in the convention center is Artist Alley, where the people who actually drew the […]
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Photo Slideshow: The Nerd Tattoos of ComiCon
I’m here this weekend at the exhausting San Diego ComiCon, working on an article about Portland’s comics industry amid a mob of 100,000 comics and movie fans. It’s insanity! I’ve been spotting a bunch of tattoos inspired by comics and nerd-dom. Check out this little photo slideshow I put together of a bunch of tattoos […]
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Not at Comic-Con? We’ve Got You Covered.
This week’s arts section features reviews of a ton of releases from Oni, Top Shelf, and Fantagraphics, three of our favorite publishers. My mind was a little bit blown by Oni’s brilliant One Soul: Ray Fawkes’ supremely ambitious One Soul combines formal experimentalism with naked existential yearning. It’s an unabashed foray into what-does-it-all-mean, told through […]