By Zack Quaintance — Today’s Kickstarter Interview is with writer Steve Urena, who with the help of Comics Experience has a new book being crowdfunded right now. It’s called Slow Pokes, and it’s a conceptually-fantastic horror book that wonders — how scary would it be if sloths were fast? You can find my conversation with Steve below, and when you’re done reading, you can head to Slow Poke’s campaign page to back it.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — In today’s Kickstarter Interview, we talk with writer Craig Hurd-McKenney and artists Keni Thomas and Kam White. Hurd-McKenney currently has a fantastic Kickstarter campaign live now, for a project called Some Strange Disturbances: A Cold Winter’s Eve. The book pushes forward McKenney’s ongoing Some Strange Disturbances story with an anthology approach, bringing in artists like Thomas, White, and others to collaborate. It’s a great book (I’m a backer), and after reading our conversation below, you can and should head over to the campaign page to back this book.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — This week, we’re rolling out new interviews with Kickstarter comics creators basically daily, starting with writer Mark O. Stack, whose project Young Offenders! just launched earlier today. You can read all about the book below, before heading over to the Young Offenders! campaign page to back the project…enjoy!
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — Today it is my absolute honor to be spotlighting another great project on Kickstarter — Project: Starless Daydream, which is as its tagline tells us, a book in which “over 30 comic creators come together to create the finale to a mech anime that never existed!” There’s a host of (amazing) artists working on this comic, but the whole thing is being written by our pal, Frankee White.
Read MoreBy Harry Kassen — If you’ve been following the Comics Bookcase Extra Eisners Reading List, you saw me gush about my love for the coloring work of Brad Simpson, and you saw that I specifically cited Black Stars Above as a standout book, and one of my favorites of the past year. With the release of the trade paperback this week, I had the opportunity to talk to Lonnie Nadler and Jenna Cha, the writer and artist of Black Stars Above respectively, to revisit the series and talk about inspiration, process, and future plans.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — I recently had a chance to talk with comic book writer and TV/film industry veteran, David Avallone. David has written several titles for publisher Dynamite, including Vampirella, Bettie Paige, Doc Savage, and more. Today’s interview, however, is heavily focused on the indie project Drawing Blood.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — Throughout this ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, comics writer Dominic Archer has been collaborating with a series of artists on short comics aimed primarily at disseminating vital information. Some of these comics lean more informative, conveying vital information about the science of it all, while others are essentially visual representations of recent headlines.
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This may surprise you all to learn, but Comics Bookcase contributors do other things aside from contributing to Comics Bookcase (shocking!). They have jobs, lives, and other creative pursuits. One of our long-time reviewers/interviewers/all-around-good-dudes, Jarred A. Luján, just so happens to be a very talented comics writer in his own right.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — As close watchers of the site will surely remember, just before COVID-19 disrupted basically everything, we ran an advanced review of a forthcoming new sci-fi comic from Mad Cave Studios — Stargazer by writer Anthony Cleveland and artist Antonio Fuso. We liked that comic, quite a bit, and we were excited for the wider comics world to get to experience it too.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — It’s a fast-changing and volatile time for comic book publishing, with the advent of the COVID-19 throwing 20-some years of distribution practices into question. With all the uncertainty, however, small publishers are doing what small publishers can do best — continuing to publish interesting and vital new comics.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — It’s been a busy year, what with being in the middle of history and all, but within everything that is happening, Dave Chisholm has been making some fantastic comics. In February, Chisholm released Canopus #1 (read our review!), written and drawn by Chisholm, the sci-fi book from publisher Scout Comics was a critical hit, soaring to strong critical reviews via a number of outlets.
Read MoreBy Jarred A. Luján — Meet Jordan Thomas. Jordan is a rising comics writer who has a new Kickstarter called Quarantine, and it’s live right now. Quarantine is a really interesting project: a wild sci-fi one-shot that spans 40 pages and features a total of 28 different artists.
Recently, I had a chance to catch up with Jordan to talk about the book it. You can check out our chat below, after the link to the campaign. Enjoy!
Read MoreBy Jarred A. Luján — One thing about writer Michael Moreci is that’s he’s ridiculously consistent. Everything from his licensed work to his creator-owned, Moreci has managed to hold down a level of consistently great output for several years. When he teamed up with Vault Comics, he really got to let loose, writing one of Vault’s most popular titles (and it’s first-ever ongoing) with his Hayden Sherman collaboration, Wasted Space, as well as leading the charge with Vault’s horror books by co-writing Mall with Gary Dauberman. In the last year, however, Moreci’s true breakout hit was with one of the best horror comics many of us have ever read: The Plot (co-written with Tim Daniel and illustrated by Joshua Hixson).
Read MoreThe new original graphic novel from Image Comics, La Voz de M.A.Y.O: Tata Rambo has been one of the sleeper best comics of the year, featuring a mix of journalism and graphic sequential storytelling. The story is based on the oral history of Ramon Jaurique, a WWII veteran who co-founded an organization called Mexican, American, Yaqui, and Others, or M.A.Y.O. Simply put, this is an important and often-untold chapter of American history, in which activists lobby the city council in Tucson, Ariz., to improve living conditions for the Pascua Yaqui tribe, working to get them federal recognition.
Read MoreLearn more about the long-lost comic strip, Kid Maroon from an actual comics historian!
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