Batman under the creative genius of artist Marshall Rogers and writer Steve Englehart (comic-book retrospective).
Ed and Jim are here to examine how during the Detective Comics #471-476 run which started August 1977 and ended
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Harley’s Little Black Book by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti and a host of artists (graphic novel review).
For those who don’t know, a little black book is your contact list, although I doubt if any of those
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Todd McFarlane: the world’s best comic-creator, or the best marketed? (interview: audio format)
Spawn was created by Emmy- and Grammy-winning director/producer Todd McFarlane. For The Amazing Spider-Man, he co-created Marvel’s main villain, Venom.
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John Carter, Warlord of Mars: the Marvel comic-book series (retrospective).
Ed and Jim are here to examine John Carter, Warlord of Mars: the Marvel comic-book series, from back in da’
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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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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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