Comic Creators Speak
Matt Fraction on “The Great Comic Book Store”
Matt Fraction currently writes Casanova for Image Comics and Punisher War Journal for Marvel Comics. His latest ongoing title, The Immortal Iron Fist (co-written by Ed Brubaker) comes out this week. His website can be found here. I’m doing a signing at Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find in one of my old hometowns, Charlotte, NC, [...]
Jimmie Robinson on “You Are Not Helping Comics!”
Jimmie Robinson is the writer/artist of Bomb Queen from Image Comics. He is also the writer of this week’s What If…? Wolverine: Enemy of the State one-shot from Marvel Comics, out tomorrow. He has a website here. If you’re reading this, that alone makes you exceptional, makes you care about the medium of comics. You [...]
Rick Spears on “Breaking the Writer’s Block”
Rick Spears is the writer of Teenagers From Mars, Dead West, Filler and currently The Pirates of Coney Island. He is also the publisher of Gigantic Graphic Novels, which just published two new books, Rotting In Dirtville and Hellcity. His website is www.giganticgraphicnovels.com Man, with deadlines trying to crush me and scripts due, why did [...]
Mike Bullock on “Why I Write Comics”
Mike Bullock currently writes Lions, Tigers and Bears for Image Comics and The Phantom for Moonstone Comics. His website is www.runemasterstudios.com. There’s a somewhat indescribable feeling I get when anything touches my imagination, a rush of anticipation mixed with hope, wonder, excitement and something else that is, well, indescribable. Since I was old enough to [...]
Mike Baron on the Fort Collins Comic Collective
Mike Baron is an award-winning comic book writer who I’m sure most of you are familiar with, especially for his work on Nexus with artist Steve Rude. Mike has a website called Bloody Red Baron that you can check out that includes “history of books, the characters, the Mike Baron Forum, and Links to other [...]
Gene “The Dean” Colan on “How I Approach a Comic Story”
Today’s entry comes from a dynamic duo, Gene “The Dean” Colan, legendary comic artist, and Dave Gutierrez (who is inking and coloring Gene on an upcoming Captain America project Colan is doing for Marvel Comics that will be released next year – see the good news you get here at Comics Should Be Good!! – [...]
Ron Kasman on “Confessions of a Comics Fan”
1. Ron Kasman has a really neat story in this week’s Negative Burn #5. It is like an Orpheus and Eurydice story, only about collecting comic books. It’s really quite neat, and well worth the read (and this week’s Negative Burn was good overall, I thought). 2. Ron hangs out at the Collectors’ Society, where [...]
Jason Aaron on “The Vietnam War in Comics: The Good, the Bad and THE OTHER SIDE.”
Jason Aaron has a book that was released today called The Other Side from Vertigo Comics, which is about the Vietnam War. He has a very cleverly titled blog called Jason Aaron. The Vietnam War in Comics: The Good, the Bad and THE OTHER SIDE Hi, I’m Jason Aaron, writer of THE OTHER SIDE, a [...]
Will Pfeifer on “10 Comics That Screwed Me Up”
Will Pfeifer has a cool blog called X-Ray Spex, where Will talks about comics, pop culture and the comics he writes (like Catwoman, new issue out this Wednesday). For his guest entry, Will is sharing with us “10 COMICS THAT SCREWED ME UP.” Fredric Wertham wrote a book (and helped maim an industry) with the [...]
