There is just no stopping Fábio Moon. His latest comic, Sugarshock, is a mini-series drawn by Fábio and written by none other than Joss Whedon! It is one of four launch stories for the new MySpace/Dark Horse Presents site, which features new monthly comics, all available for free.
Go read Sugarshock now, and then give the rest of the site a look, especially the new Umbrella Academy comic, drawn by Fábio’s twin brother, Gabriel Bá.
Congratulations to Hope Larson for winning the Eisner Award in the Special Recognition category (formerly known as the “Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition” category)!
If you haven’t already read it, go check out Hope’s latest comic that was recently featured in the OpEd page of the New York Times (be sure to click on the ‘next’ link at the top right of the page to read the full comic).
The Pulse talks to Joey Weiser about his first full-length graphic novel The Ride Home and his work on the Flight anthologies. The Ride Home is available in stores now!
The Comics Reporter (aka Tom Spurgeon) has a pleasant chat with Graham Annable. An excerpt:
ANNABLE: I always gravitated towards that type of humor my whole life and I suspect it’s genetic. My mother, a very quiet, soft-spoken woman, always seemed to derive great humor from watching people in distress. And by people, I mean usually my father.
Read the full interview here. Hickee #3 is in comic stores now! Everyone should own a copy.
Signing schedules!
- Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
- Becky Cloonan
- Amy Kim Ganter
- Joey Weiser
- Raina Telgemeier
- Sonny Liew and Dave Roman
- Chuck BB
- Derek Kirk Kim
- …and Jeff Smith and the McCloud clan (not really a signing schedule per se, but has some useful information!)
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Panels!
Well, the San Diego Comic-Con is upon us once again. As always, Flight will have a definite presence at the con, and the following artists that have confirmed so far (expect more of us!), and where they can be found are:
Flight Comics (booth #1128)
- Kazu Kibuishi
- Amy Kim Ganter
- Johane Matte
- Clio Chiang
- Rodolphe Guenoden
- Phil Craven
- Rad Sechrist
- Sarah Mensinga
- Doug Holgate
- Tony Cliff
- Reagan Lodge
- Ryan Estrada
- Joey Weiser
- Scott Campbell
The Those Guys (booth #1035)
- Justin Ridge
- Israel Sanchez
- Richard Pose
Cartoon Books (booth #2207)
- Jeff Smith
- Steve Hamaker
Douglas R. TenNapel, Inc. (booth #1031)
- Doug TenNapel
Slave Labor Graphics (booth #1815)
- Sonny Liew
Oni Press (booth #1834)
- Chuck BB
Image Comics (booth #2729)
- Becky Cloonan
- Fábio Moon
Little Bird Books (small press table #P1)
- Lark Pien
Comics Bakery (small press table #P2)
- Dave Roman
- Raina Telgemeier
Scott McCloud and his family will once again be roaming the con floor, so keep an eye out for them as well!
As always, we’ll be sharing our space with the folks from Nucleus, and we’ll have plenty of copies of Flight on hand as well as original work by the individual artists — graphic novels, prints, sketchbooks, minicomics and more!
Newsarama wraps up their ‘Friends of Flight’ feature with a series of story commentaries by some of the Flight 4 creators. Joey Weiser, JP Ahonen, Azad Injejikian, Raina Telgemeier, Amy Kim Ganter and Andrea Offermann all provide commentaries for their own stories in the latest volume of Flight.
(previously: parts one and two of the Newsarama Flight 4 roundtable.)
With Shazam! Monster Society of Evil wrapping up this week, Jeff Smith and Steve Hamaker take us on a tour of Cartoon Books, and a look behind the scenes at the creation of Shazam!
And don’t forget to check out Jeff’s blog for the final Shazam! production journal entry, and a link to an online preview of his excellent Art of Bone hardcover, which is in stores now.
[via Steve's blog]
MySpace Comic Books has a new 35-page preview of Rick Spears and ChuckBB’s graphic novel, Black Metal. Go read it before the Dark Lords of Metal squash you like a bug. Because they will.
(see our previous post for more on Black Metal.)
Newsarama has posted part two of their Flight 4 roundtable, this time with Kazu and co. leading the discussion.
(see our previous post for part one of the roundtable.)
Okay, so there are quite a few of us here that are fans of Naoki Urasawa‘s work (Monster, 20th Century Boys), and Matt Forsythe has found a couple videos of Naoki Urasawa both working in and being interviewed in his studio that I just felt I had to share. The interview is in French, but there’s a rough English translation on the right-hand side of the YouTube video page behind the following links:
Naoki Urasawa interview
Urasawa at work in his studio
ComiPress also has a couple of short articles focusing on Urasawa’s professionalism and his relationship with his editors. It quickly becomes apparent that the struggles of a cartoonist are universal.
[via Coming Up for Air]
Raina Telgemeier will be at Dog-Eared Books in San Francisco, CA this Friday, June 20th for a book signing and discussion about her Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels, which will include a look into her work process! The event will start at 6:30 PM.
Click on the flyer for the full details.
The Diesel Sweeties guest fortnight has just concluded and, as always, rstevens assembled quite the lineup of artists for his guest comics, which includes some of the folk from the Flight crew: Raina Telgemeier, Erika Moen and Dave Roman.
The official Flight 4 preview page is now up! Looking back over the stories, I’m reminded of the amount of love and effort that’s been put into this book. Great work, everyone.