Born in 1957, Hilary Barta began his comic book career in 1982 when he was hired at Marvel to help ink The Defenders #108. In 1984 he moved to First Comics to ink Warp, and slowly graduated to penciling as well. In 1988, after work for Eclipse, Marvel, and First, Barta launched both Marvel’s What…
In today’s brand-new episode of GrimJack: The Manx Cat, by John Ostrander and Timothy Truman, John Gaunt is back in his own body, and he’s in a hurry. He needs the St. Johns knives to save his friend. Can he persuade Munden (of Munden’s Bar) to hand them over? Credits: John Ostrander (Writer), John Workman…
Born in 1949, ComicMix creator/columnist John Ostrander loved comics from early on but initially followed a different love: religion. Raised Roman Catholic, Ostrander wanted to become a priest and attended a year of seminary before deciding it wasn’t right for him. Instead he turned to acting. Ostrander was part of a Chicago theater company in…
Time was, you wouldn’t know how your freelancers were doing on their art assignments until you got either a package in the mail or a panicked phone call explaining why they were late. Now, you can just follow their LiveJournal page. Here’s Joanna Estep: Today I finished pencils on my run of Munden’s Bar, for…
Read more Simone and Ajax Christmas adventures: 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 and A Christmas Calamity! Oh, and don’t forget the ongoing Adventures of Simone and Ajax all here on ComicMix. (And no, we’re not running a GrimJack installment today– for some reason, we just didn’t think that the…
Today we celebrate the birthday of one of comics most creative contributors, the great Neil Gaiman. To think, we all knew him when he was just writing some of the most brilliant comics out there, before he was responsible for half the films coming out from Paramount this year. But the man is nothing if…
It’s been four weeks since the rollout of ComicMix: Phase II. You’ve seen the first four installments of GrimJack, EZ Street, Black Ice, Munden’s Bar, Simone & Ajax, and Fishhead. You’ve used our comic reader, you’ve listened to the podcasts, you’ve played with the site, and we’ve still had the same great columnists. In that…
Our pal and ComicMix columnist and Fishhead co-writer Michael H. Price sent me one of those "seperated at birth" things… sort of a crossover between his Fishhead and our first Munden’s Bar story, as produced by John Ostrander and Skip Williamson. The beauty on the left is called "Snappy Sammy Smoot," he’s a long-time hero…
There is no better way to end a week than a little trip to the local bar – and in comics the bar "local" to EVERYwhere happens to be Munden‘s! For about 70 issues of GrimJack, Munden’s Bar was a fan favorite and now its coming back – and FREE – to ComicMix on Friday,…
Via Heidi MacDonald at The Beat, we see that new adventures of Nexus, our favorite interstellar killer of mass murderers, will be coming out in July. Clearly, this leaves us with a large hunk of questions over here at ComicMix. After all, if Nexus can come back in this day and age, complete with the…
