“The Year in Comics: Biggest Disappointments of 2012”
At Gutters and Panels, John Gholson shares his 3 biggest disappointments in comics this year.
NIRO
Cameron Stewart has posted a preview of his upcoming, self-published comic, NIRO. See the pretty here.
Interview with Lilli Carré
Comic Book Resources interviews comics artist and animator Lilli Carré: “Our lives can be reduced to a series of non-stop, never-ending choices, big and small! A lot of my stories have characters that are caught in a state of ambivalence and frozen in indecision, or who actively make […]
Some superpowers are just useless enough to be real
My best friend growing up had a theory about people claiming to have special abilities like ESP, levitation, or astral projection. She had a babysitter who claimed she could levitate, but only when she was alone. My friend’s theory wasn’t that these things were impossible, but that realistically […]
Thinking about Gail Simone’s Batgirl
Adam Bateham wrote a response to Gail Simone’s dismissal from Batgirl and his feelings about the character: “[Simone] ‘got it.’ She didn’t use Batgirl’s inability to walk as a cheap plot point. Simone wrote a character that struggled to move forward because she was weighed down from years of […]
“33 Years of Great Comics”
Grumpy Old Fan remembers Karen Berger’s tenure at Vertigo and DC comics. “In more than 30 years, first as a DC Comics editor and then as head of Vertigo, Berger helped to transform the comics industry by shepherding some of the most acclaimed and beloved series in recent […]
The Cultural Gutter 