How to get Started in Indie Comics – A Jarrod Alberich interview @yardsaleartist
Jarrod Alberich aka The Yard Sale Artist explains how he got started in independent comics. It’s an interesting listen.
Category: Comics
Why Frank Miller Is Revisiting the World of 300 With His New Xerxes
Abraham Riesman recently spoke with Frank Miller to discover why Why Frank Miller Is Revisiting the World of 300 With His New Xerxes. Here are a few tidbits…
Did you go back and reread 300 in preparation for Xerxes? I know a lot of creators don’t like looking at their old work.
Oh, I have to refer to it. I’m very, very proud of 300. I look at it and I don’t think, Well, what would I do differently? I simply accept it as what it is. It was very much a product of the time I did it, but it was the best story I ever had my hands on, and I did my very best by it.But the Athenians can hold their own in the battlefield. Honestly, in junior high, I mostly just learned about them as paragons of democracy and culture.
They were brilliant in battle and they were a culture that succeeded on every level. The Spartans, essentially, became so culturally paranoid that they kind of ceased to exist because they didn’t read. They built for war while the Athenians built for progress. What we have from the Greeks is basically Athenian: the art, the learning, the culture, the sense of democracy.
Any interview with Frank Miller is worth a read especially when it contains (more) preview art.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Thomas & Mignola Gets the Hardcover Treatment!
IDW is reprinting Roy Thomas and Mike Mignola’s adaption of Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a 136 page hardcover edition. This was Mignola’s last work before directing his attention to his Hellboy creation. Mignola is happy to have Bram Stoker’s Dracula back in print…
“I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have this book back in print… People have been asking about this one for ages—More than any other book of mine—and I honestly didn’t think it was ever going to be possible to see an edition, but here it is. Thank you Scott Dunbier and IDW… One of the very few older jobs I’m still pretty proud of.”
Source: Bleeding Cool.
Kelley Jones on Swamp Thing, Completing Wrightson’s Frankenstein
Bermie Wrightson is a legend. If you’re reading this, you probably know that. If not, Google Wrightson and then come back.
Wrightson is mostly remembered for his work in the horror genre, specifically Frankenstein. Wrightson’s final project was Frankenstein Alive, Alive! with writer Steve Niles. When Wrightson realized he couldn’t finish the project, he asked artist Kelley Jones to finish it.
Jones’ interview with Alex Dueben at Comic Book Resources is one of the most moving, touching and emotional interviews I can ever remember: Kelley Jones on Swamp Thing, Completing Wrightson’s Frankenstein
Nick Fury(s) by Bruce Timm!
Bruce Timm’s take on Nick Fury! Makes me want a Nick Fury series by Mr. Timm.
Source: Cool Comic Art.
Frank Miller Has 6 Projects in the Works!
Frank Miller will provide the art and team with writer Thomas Wheeler for Cursed, a young adult novel that…
…tells the story of King Arthur from the point of view of Nimue, the 16-year-old girl who first wielded Excalibur and ultimately became the Lady of the Lake.
We can expect the release of Cursed in the fall of 2019.
It was also announced today that Frank Miller has signed a five-project deal with DC Comics. The first two projects are:
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Superman: Year One: Miller will write and John Romita Jr. will provide the art.
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A graphic novel focusing on Carrie Kelley, Robin from Miller’s classic Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Again, Miller will serve as writer and Ben Caldwell will take on the art chores.
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Miller is also set to write three undisclosed projects to complete the five-project deal.
Boy, I sure wish a new Miller Sin City yarn was in the works.
Sources: SYFY Wire and Comicosity.
The Many Collaborations of Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins was recently interviewed by Michael Barson about Collins’ friendship and collaborations with Mickey Spillane. If you’re a fan of Collins and/or Spillane, you won’t want to miss it.
Source: Crime Spree Mag.
Mike Mignola’s “Bride of Frankenstein”
Seeing Mike Mignola’s Bride of Frankenstein piece makes me wonder why someone isn’t licensing the classic Universal Monster movies to bring out as comics. I’d think there’s a market for them.
Source: I Can’t Stop Thinking About Comics.
Stephen Franck’s Silver Coming to Free Comic Book Day!
May 5, 2018 is Free Comic Book Day. Dark Planet is making Stephen Franck’s Silver #1 available. Franck summarizes Silver as…
… an original universe built around Bram Stoker’s original Dracula, and it begins 40 years after the events of the novel, into the noir/pulp era of the 1930s. You meet James Finnigan, who is the most notorious conman/gentleman-thief of his day, as he teams up with Rosalynd “Sledge” Van Helsing (granddaughter of the original Van Helsing, and altogether the last of the Van Helsings), to steal a mystical treasure hidden in Dracula’s castle. Finn, of course, brings his known associates—a fun assortment of conmen and grifters of all kinds—as well as the kind of amoral attitude that puts him immediately at odds with Sledge. Lastly, the team enlists Tao Leu (or more accurately, he enlists himself), who is a 10-year-old boy with the gift of second sight and who might be the biggest scoundrel of them all.
If this sounds like something you’d like or you’d like to see more click over to Free Comic Book Day’s Interview with Stephen Franc or to see a bigger preview of Silver.
Popeye, Brutus and Olive Oyle by Otto Schmidt
Some things are just too cool not to share. Popeye, Brutus and Olive Oyle by Otto Schmidt is one of them.
Source: Browse The Stacks.
Darwyn Cooke Nick Fury!
What I wouldn’t have given to see Darwyn Cooke do his take on a 1960’s Nick Fury tale. Darwyn Cooke passed way too young. So much talent. Thankfully, as cliche as it may be, we have his stories and art and they will live on.
Source: Zakk the Comicholic.
“The Godfather, Part II” Art by Steranko!
Here’s something you don’t often see — Steranko art for The Godfather, Part II. You can see a bigger version at Cool Comic Art on Twitter.
CROSSROAD BLUES: A NICK TRAVERS GRAPHIC NOVEL
CROSSROAD BLUES: A NICK TRAVERS GRAPHIC NOVEL by Ace Atkins and Marco Finnegan is set to drop May 1st and I can’t wait.
After a New Orleans college professor goes missing while searching for the rumored lost recordings of bluesman Robert Johnson—who, as legend has it, sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads—Nick Travers is sent to find him. Clues point to everyone from an eccentric albino named Cracker to a hitman who believes he is the second coming of Elvis Presley.
I first discovered Atkins writing when he was tapped to continue the Robert B. Parker Spenser novels. I was so impressed I searched out more of Atkins work and this led me to his other novels as well as the first Nick Travers graphic novel, Last Fair Deal Gone Down. Needless to say, I was hooked.
Source: Comicosity.
The Art of Karl Slominski
Check out Teeter Topple and a whole lot more at Karl Slominski’s site.
