“This election was one of immense historical importance, less in my mind because of race than it being a sea change of values and priorities about what Americans want their country to stand for, and a break from a dirty century of secretive politics and a desire for openness in Washington… We finally have someone [...]
The forthcoming graphic novel 08, about the presidential election race between Barack Obama and John McCain, will be available the 27th. You can sample it here. Dan Goldman was the co-writer, along with his brother Steven, of the GN Everyman: Be the People, which chronicled the rise to power of a fictitious black president, so [...]
A few years ago, there was a graphic novel called Street Angel that came out which was a balls-out, fantastically fun romp of a comic (not unlike the Scott Pilgrim series of books, by way of comparison). One of the supporting characters in that book was a blaxploitation-like character called Afrodisiac that sort of became [...]
“The Apocalipstix is an all-girl band so dedicated to rock that they won’t even let the end of civilization stop them from touring… They’ll play for anything that has two limbs to clap together and an orifice to whistle out of – true artists barreling across a blasted world that badly needs art.”
Apocalipstix
“Ultimately, ‘The Dark Age’ is about family and obsession. That gets filtered out through politics and war and such because they’re part of the landscape in the early 1970s, when the story is set, but it’s not a political manifesto, and neither of the Williams brothers really cares much about national politics.”
Astro City: The [...]
“I’ve been trying to make the art look like photographs, while using the line art technique the editor requested. I’ve been using Murphy Anderson Hawkman art for reference. Mostly, I’m just using the same techniques I used inking Spider-Man comics back in the eighties. High-contrast art with lots of tiny lines. Lots of photo reference.”
Kyle [...]
