Click to GO BIG! Thought you might like to see some of Julian Totino Tedesco’s pencils from tomorrow’s VENOM 13.3. He pencils his pages out in a loose way that has lots of energy yet already shows the acting clearly. Tomorrow I’ll put up some of the inks- the guy is simply impressive. Check out [...]

Twitter is hell-of-useful for tunnel-visioned people like me unaware of the greater world. Until Jen Van Meter linked it a while ago, I didn’t know about Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant at all and now there’s one more thing out there I can enjoy. Then Eric Newsom pointed me to creator Tony Cliff’s blog [...]

That was misleading, I admit. I don’t know how to co-create comic books. Not that this ever stops me, I charge right into working with other cartoonists to bring new books and characters into existence, hoping I’ll figure it out on the way. This subject comes up regularly at Periscope Studio, of which I’m a [...]

Been meaning to elucidate those ordering from Previews (like, this week) that a fun book they might want in on is coming soon from Image, Micah Harris and Loston Wallace’s LORNA: RELIC WRANGLER. Go see these boss pages! And here’s some of the lowdown on the kind of adventure you’ll find within: Fun fact: Washington [...]

So it’s pretty clear that all anyone I know will be talking about this week is Disney totally Owning Marvel now. But first I want to remind you that I’m writing World War Hulks Alpha, and I’ve been talking about it in the comics press. Like here at Comic Book Resources. With Dave! And here [...]

Over at Newsarama I’m speaking with Vaneta about Spider-Man 1602: The Web Complete and there are some beautiful Ramon Rosanas pages to see. I see people wondering why we’re doing this so long after the initial series and follow-ups. You may remember in early 2008 when artist and colorist Stephane Peru died way way too [...]

That’s right, host John Siuntres didn’t call his podcast show Speech Balloon or Speech Bubble, because that’s not what those are called. It’s Word Balloon, and this latest segment John and I talk about everything under the sun. And he must have had to edit an hour out, because I rambled off topic like crazy. [...]

You can get THREE books today from me- you get your Exiles 3, your Agents of Atlas 6, and the collected Age of the Sentry- all just by walking into a comics shop! That’s fat readin’.

At least in the book I wrote. Here’s a neat print that Nick Dragotta had for WonderCon last weekend…

Over at Comic Book Resources, I do an X-Position talking a bit about X-MEN FIRST CLASS FINALS and EXILES. Plus a little bit of AGENTS OF ATLAS. And there’s some art to see. This will stall you until I remember how the New York Convention ended.

It figures that on a day I have three books coming out that I would be up in the air for hours instead of standing in a comics shop helpfully guiding people to one of my comics. Just as well, one of those books is the first issue of X-Men First Class: FINALS, and I [...]

-waiting for my delayed flight to San Francisco. Luckily the Isotope MYSTERIUS party isn’t until tonight, but I’d hoped to stop by the Comics Art Museum and then set up at the shop to get some work done. Maybe I’ll get some done on the plane if the person in front of me doesn’t lean [...]

I just read Tom Spurgeon’s excellent and positive piece on the state of comics (yes, I said Spurgeon). It’s a response to Steven Grant’s recent column which managed to hit a lot of nerves with the word dreary- agree with him or not, you must admit he has that good writer’s skill of choosing power [...]

You know, people are looking everywhere to make sense of the global financial crisis- especially looking to that torch in the darkness-comics- and it occurs to me almost daily that the essentials of it all were explained best back in the 1980′s by Miracleman. From Miracleman #16, Eclipse Comics, Alan Moore and John Totleben.

If there’s anything that says comics more than Nick Dragotta drawing hillbillies night-fishin’, I don’t want to know about it. CBR has a preview of next week’s Age of the Sentry #3, also with some sweet Colleen Coover pages for Paul Tobin’s story featuring MILLIE THE MODEL and MANOO. In this economic downturn, some things [...]