2023 Underground Art Market Report
Image credit: Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann The weird thing about “taboo” is that you usually don’t even notice it until it’s broken and smacks you right in the face. That’s what happened when I first read Go With The Flow. Not only did the …
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Are you a fan of comics, movies, TV shows, and all things geeky? If so, mark your calendars for the Owensboro Comic & Toy Convention (OCTC), happening on October 7-8th, 2023, at the Owensboro Convention Center in Owensboro, KY. OCTC is Owensboro’s premier gathering for …
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Amazon Big Deal Days kick off on October 10, but ahead of the big event (essentially Prime Day Round 2), you’ll find dozens of popular comics, graphic novels, and art books discounted to some of the lowest prices of 2023. Whether you’re looking for a …
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Monster Support Group: The Mummy’s Curse from the Flying Eye Books imprint of Nobrow tops this week’s list of new comics, manga, and graphic novels for readers 12-and-under, along with a new manga from Seven Sea Entertainment. Other highlights include Saving H’Non: Chang and the …
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Across five decades, the cartoonist Daniel Clowes has written about a wide array of outcasts: the high-school best friends wrestling with their transition into adulthood; the middle-aged grouch searching for the daughter he never knew; the sex-obsessed malcontent fixated on his ex-girlfriend; the many other …
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Assassin’s Creed has established itself as one of the biggest franchises in video games, and if you can’t get enough of the historical saga, then this new Humble book bundle should be right up your alley. Just in time for this week’s release of Assassin’s …
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The comic book author and graphic novelist Bobby Joseph has become the first person of colour to be appointed the UK’s comics laureate. Joseph, who was one of the first authors to create a British comic with black characters, was appointed to the role at …
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Following up from last week’s stack of creepy comics, here are some more spooky stories for the season! Prunella’s village is terrified of monsters. They already have a wall surrounding the village, but now there are proposals to build another wall on top of that …
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Richard Yeend, a London-based cartoonist, newspaper and typeface designer, was an editorial cartoonist for The Guardian and Sunday Times from 1969–1974. In 1974 he moved to the U.S. and worked for The Boston Herald American and The New York Times, where we briefly worked in …
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MONICA, by Daniel Clowes In 1989, Daniel Clowes kicked off his comic series “Eightball” with an issue subtitled “An Orgy of Spite, Vengeance, Hopelessness, Despair and Sexual Perversion,” and dude was only half kidding. “Eightball” was like no other comic on the stands, a demented …
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