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Exclusive Interview: “Japanese Notebooks” Author, Artist Igort

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date June 21, 2017
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Though he’s been writing and drawing graphic novels for forty years, Italian author and artist Igort has only had a couple of his books published in the U.S. Which is a real shame because he’s clearly a unique talent, both literally and visually. In honor of his book Japanese Notebooks: A Journey To The Empire Of Signs (digital) being released here in the colonies, I spoke to him about how it came together, his plans for a cinematic adaptation, and why you won’t see his name in the credits of a Spider-Man comic anytime soon.

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Exclusive Interview: Small Favors Writer, Artist Colleen Coover

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 4, 2017
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Seventeen years after was first released, Colleen Coover’s sex-positive lesbian comic Small Favors is being celebrated with Small Favors The Definitive Girly Porno Collection (hardcover), which not only includes the comics from both released volumes of Small Favors, but a previously uncollected color special and other fun stuff as well. In the following interview, Coover talks about how the comic initially came together, how this collection came to be, and why no, she’s not going to be writing any more Small Favors.

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Exclusive Interview: Roughneck Author, Artist Jeff Lemire

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 19, 2017
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Depending on which aisle of the comic book store you frequent most, you probably know writer and artist Jeff Lemire for such super heroic books as Hawkeye: Hawkeyes or Moon Knight: Lunatic, for his ongoing sci-fi series Descender, or for such real-world stories as Essex County. It is in the latter section that we find his new graphic novel Roughneck (hardcover, digital), an emotional story of a man whose glory days are behind him.

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Exclusive Interview: The Killer Volume 5 Fight Or Flight Author Matz

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 20, 2017
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Like jazz, noir crime novels are a uniquely American art form, one that has not only found fans around the world, but has also inspired people in other cultures to engage in it as well. One of the best examples of this is The Killer, a series of graphic novels penned by French writer Matz and drawn by his countryman Luc Jacamon. With The Killer Volume 5 Fight Or Flight available now in hardcover and digitally — Volume 1 and 2 were collected in The Killer Omnibus Volume 1, while Volume 2 and 4were collected in The Killer Omnibus Volume 2 — I queried Matz about how this noir series came about, and where it’s going in this new collection.

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Funko Announce DC Comics Bombshell POP! Toys

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date January 17, 2017
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Funko have announced that they’ll release a series of POP! toys based on DC Comics’ Bombshell books this February, a comic and toy series that reimagines such characters as Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn as if they were from the 1940s.

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Exclusive Interview: Such A Lovely Little War Author Marcelino Truong

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 31, 2016
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In America, most of the movies, novels, and comics about the Vietnam War are told from the perspective of the American soldiers. But in his autobiographical graphic novel Such A Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63 (paperback, digital), writer and artist Marcelino Truong explores what it was like for the local Vietnamese people during the two years when President Kennedy escalated the U.S.’s involvement in the conflict.

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Exclusive Interview: “Becoming Unbecoming” Author Una

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 31, 2016
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Some of the best art comes from when we explore difficult subjects. It’s something I thought about a lot when editing the following interview with Una, the writer and artist of the graphic novel memoir Becoming Unbecoming (paperback, digital), in which she explores the serial murders committed in the late-’70s by Peter Sutcliffe as a way to explore her experiences with sexualized violence. Especially since, according to UN Women, 35% of women worldwide have experienced, “either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner at some point in their lives.” Though in talking to Una about the book, it was interesting — but not the least bit surprising — to learn that it wasn’t as much about Sutcliffe as you might expect.

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Funko Announce DC Comics Wobblers

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 26, 2016
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Funko have announced that they’ll release four DC Comics Wobblers bobbleheads this December.

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Funko Announce X-Men POP!, Dorbz, And Mystery Minis Toys

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 25, 2016
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Funko have announced that they’ll be releasing POP! toys, Dorbz figures, Mystery Minis, and even a POP! keychain of The X-Men this November and December.

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