We received the following statement from Marvel: Due to an unprecedented number of unsolicited art and writing submissions, Marvel has altered its open submissions policy effective immediately. Marvel has remained the only major publisher to continue accepting open submissions, however that practice has been halted as we review our strategies for accepting future submissions. …
Fred Van Lente may have one of the strangest resumes in modern comics. After all, not many writers can give their first claim to fame as writing an award-winning non-fiction comic book series both satirizing and paying tribute to the greatest thinkers in human history; yet that’s his name alongside artist Ryan Dunlavey’s on the…
ComicMix’s Frank McLaughlin is profiled in today’s Connecticut Post, talking about his career and new role as professor of cartooning at the Sterling House Community Center. In discussing his long career, McLaughlin noted the change of emphasis from newspparer comic strips to comic books to the Internet. "Comics and newspaper comic strips have been on…
It’s New Year’s Day, and that means the fine folks at Comicraft are running their annual New Year’s Day sale– where all of their fonts sell for $20.09. So stock up now and get one of the secret tools that will make you a master at comic book production. Me, I’m still writing $20.08 from…
Write Now!, the how-to magazine for aspiring comic book writers, will be canceled after its 20th issue, out in February. TwoMorrows posted the news on their website this week. Publisher John Morrow noted, “I’ve got to say, I’m really sorry to see it go; Danny Fingeroth has been absolutely professional and delightful to work with…
Jane Espenson has written comedy and drama, science fiction and horror, and blogs regularly about the script writing process. Having just written for Dark Horse’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic, she wrote about the process and does a nice job summarizing it for the curious. Summing up the experience, she wrote, “I got to weigh…
For a guy who wrote Iron Man, Mike Grell is a self-described Luddite, constantly at odds with technology. He once claimed he had a steam-driven fax machine. He was constantly amazed at the things I did to his art in Photoshop during my coloring stint on Jon Sable Freelance. With that, I was amused that…
Yesterday, we began a conversation with About Comics’ Nat Gertler, looking back over 10 years of existence. Today, we’ll examine his best known project 24 Hour Comics Day as well as About’s future plans. ComicMix: You’ve also nurtured talent through your books on comic book writing. Will there be other such projects? Nat Gertler: Right…
And more to the point, can he do it anywhere else? After all, it might be easier to explain if we could point to another industry that uses inkers… Luckily, we came across this documentary that explains pretty well what an inker does and how the work applies to other fields… meet Garson Hampfield, Crossword…
DC Comics got a lot of press last year when they signed up bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult to write their monthly [[[Wonder Woman]]] series – gallons of ink about her being the first female “regular writer” on the series, and about how this would finally catapult WW into the position DC keeps insisting she already…
The third issue of Comic Foundry, the well-received new magazine covering the comics lifestyle, is due out next week, editor Tim Leong posted on the mag’s Website. That’s a Thursday (July 10) because, as always, those damn holidays delay comic books for a day. Here’s what’s on tap for the issue: Blair Butler! Dash Shaw!…
When Freshmen was first solicited by its publisher Top Cow, the series was promoted as "The adventures of college freshmen with extraordinary powers." And while many writers might respond by rolling their eyes, smirking and claiming that their characters were a bit more serious and tackled deeper social issues, Freshmen creators Seth Green and Hugh…
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