Marvel New Universe’s long forgotten failure (comic-book history documentary).
Marvel’s New Universe imprint ran from 1986 until 1989. It was Marvel’s first shared universe-based line. Jim Shooter, Archie Goodwin,
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Comics
Comics and graphic novels.
Getting the most out of your digital inking: Advice from a DC comics artist (video tutorial).
The process of digital inking may be challenging, which is why we’ve brought in Ryan Benjamin, a comic book artist
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Dune: The Graphic Novel book 2: Muad’Dib, by writers Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and artists Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín (graphic novel review).
This is the second of three parts in the graphic novel adaptation of Frank Herbert’s original ‘Dune’ novel. The script
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Lady Mechanika: Siya Oum provides a tutorial on how to draw and ink a comic book page (video format lesson).
At times, the laborious but ultimately gratifying process of sketching a page for a comic book might seem to be
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Kevin O’Neill: 2000AD comic-book artist extraordinaire dies. RIP (news).
Sad news reaches us here at SFcrowsnest Towers that Kevin O’Neill, 2000AD comic-book artist extraordinaire, has passed away aged 69.
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Cixin Liu’s The Circle: A Graphic Novel (The Worlds of Cixin Liu) by Xavier Besse.
Adapted into graphic novel format by Xavier Besse, Cixin Liu’s ‘The Circle’ is unusual among this series of adaptations and,
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Geoff Johns talks Junkyard Joe: comic-book creator interviews with Andrew Sumner (video format).
Andrew Sumner from the Forbidden Planet bods sits down for an interview with Geoffrey Johns, an American author of comic
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Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, a comic-book retrospective (video format).
Ed and Jim return to bring us a comic-book retrospective of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter which was first released all the
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Cixin Liu’s For The Benefit Of Mankind: A Graphic Novel (The Worlds Of Cixin Liu) by Sylvain Runberg and Mike Montlló (graphic novel review).
‘For The Benefit Of Mankind’ sees the arrival of an alien race in the skies of Earth, whose orbiting ships
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Cixin Liu’s The Devourer: A Graphic Novel (The Worlds of Cixin Liu) by JD Morvan and Weilin Yang (book review).
One of the recurring themes in Cixin Liu’s short stories is the arrival of an enormous alien artefact in the
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