All throughout April, we’re crowdsourcing a coronavirus comics reading list. Each weekday for a month, we’ll post a new recommendation from someone in the comics industry to help folks get through the quarantine. It’ll be a crowdsourced list of recommended reading from writers, artists, letterers, editors, comics journalists, publicists, and more…all paired with a local shop that’s currently selling the books via mail order.
Read MoreThe first memory of Superman is my older brother explaining why Superman is boring because nothing can hurt him. It was the prevailing opinion of the time. Cool kids liked stories about the people who can be physically hurt, and hurt others. The late great Darwyn Cooke had this issue in mind when asked to write the debut arc for a new monthly series, Superman: Confidential. The theme of the series being a exploration of firsts in the career for the Man of Steel. First visit to Metropolis, first use of Jimmy’s signal watch, and in this case first exposure to Kryptonite.
Read MoreI'm going to recommend a book that's not exactly an unknown indie, but it has a special place in my heart. I also happened to just re-read it during my own quarantine time...it's Batman: Hush! Maybe it's not as well known as it once was — we're coming up on almost twenty years since the release of the first issue! To set the scene for how long ago that was, I was at the time getting the monthly Batman title from DC by SUBSCRIPTION. In the MAIL. Which is how we're all getting comics now, right?
Read MoreSweet Tooth is an incredible post-apocalyptic story with heart and charm, featuring 40 issues of beautiful comics with one of the best endings ever. It's special to me for many reasons, but primarily because it helped bring me back to comics. I was pretty much out of comics from 1993-ish until 2010. I had started going to SDCC around 2004 or 2005, though. Not for comics originally, but because I live in San Diego and always wanted to go. Initially I just checked out big Hollywood stuff and toys. In 2009, I decided to start bringing a sketchbook. I had seen others doing it, and it seemed cool. That first con I met a then much-less-known Jeff Lemire at the DC booth. He had a signing related to The Nobody.
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