DVDanger: Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD

New documentary on the influential and rule-breaking comic

"...Imagine comics with no Sandman. No Watchmen. No Preacher. That's a..."

May 30, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...Scott McCloud of Understanding Comics fame has a new book out from First Second..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Rooster Teeth Announces RWBY Justice League Film

DC crossover one big surprise of many from the RTX panel

"...American anime by Austin's Rooster Teeth, and fans of DC Comics. At its annual RTX expo, the online content..."

July 1, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Different Kind of World

Comics legend Joe Kubert talks about his life as it was and as it might have been

"...heroes Sgt. Rock and Enemy Ace in the Sixties, DC Comics' adaptation of Tarzan in the Seventies, and his..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Review: Preacher

Cynical reverend searches for atonement in West Texas

"...Whether by dint of marketing mandate (American comics for American readers) or ancestral DNA (comics as a..."

March 15, 2016 Screens Post by Jacob Clifton

Joe Kubert, RIP

The brilliant comics artist and teacher has died at age 85

"...You can create a very long list of comics artists whose work is visually arresting, dramatic, or just..."

Aug. 13, 2012 Books Post by Robert Faires

Books Gift Guide

Betsy and Me

"...signature cartoonists of the 20th century. Also recommended in Comics ......"

Dec. 14, 2007 Books Feature by Rick Klaw

Chris the Conqueror

Chris Roberson takes on Superman, Elric, Captain Kirk, and Cinderella – and wins

"...And between them is Chris Roberson, the award-winning Austin-based comics author who shocked himself by spending the last year..."

July 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Essential Man-Thing: Vol. 1 and Showcase Presents: The Unknown Soldier

No nostalgia: discovery and rediscovery

"...Marvel Comics, 544 pp., $16.99Showcase Presents: The Unknown Soldier..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Crossing the Lines

Women Comic Strippers

"...of femme-penned pieces caused quite a buzz in the comics scene, as well as in feminist academic circles. It..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

Page Two: Otto Binder Had a Vision

The great science-fiction and comic book writer already had a name for Trump back in the 1950s – Bizarro

"...In the mid-Fifties Binder was writing a lot for DC Comics. It was a try-anything period – and they..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Revenge of the Return of the Son of the Graphics Giveaway Begins!

If Scrooge McDuck, Bruce Wayne, and Veronica Lodge are giving away millions, it can only be Free Comic Book Day, Part IV

"...upon thousands of people jamming into their friendly neighborhood comics shop – that the industry's publishers and retailers felt..."

May 6, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

It's Free Comic Book Day

The where, what and how of comic collectors' favorite Saturday

"...visit your local store and pick up some free comics. No, this is not a test or a trick...."

May 5, 2012 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Comic Book Day

There's a comic for everybody among the 40 titles available in the eighth annual giveaway

"...Panel 3: You, inside your friendly neighborhood comics shop, picking up a batch of comics that is..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Big Show

Comic-Con has gone Hollywood, but Austin's comics pros say it's still the place to be

"...the people who write, draw, ink, letter, and edit comics, the working stiffs of sequential art. But the fact..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

First, Free Comic Book Day, and Then – Ka-Baam!!

Comic books and comedy improv go hand in hand, sometimes with repulsor rays

"...highbrow shores. Now, among scores of other notable nonhero comics, there's Los Bros Hernandez's Love and Rockets and Julie..."

May 2, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Best of Print 1995

Words: Printed, Spoken, and Painted

"...this year. It was to Trinidad. Martin Wagner:Year in Comics 1995 Last year, the comics industry experienced a tumultuous..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Books Feature

A Local Pick for Free Comic Book Day

Creators of Punchline offer a super-powered narrative

"...be chockablock with newly minted issues to give away, comics featuring all manner of genres – superhero, mystery, comedy,..."

May 1, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Free Comic Book Day: Picking Through The Shelves

The annual graphic giveaway is this weekend, so what should you pick up?

"...Now most stores will limit the number of comics you can pick up. And anyway, don't just grab..."

May 3, 2013 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two

Gratitude and goodbye to Will Eisner, whose comic 'The Spirit' is the epitome of great American art

"...from Nov. 2, 1941, above the headline "Pioneer of Comics Is Dead."..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

The origins of the iconic Amazon princess

"...Marvel, you may be surprised about the origins of DC’s Wonder Woman, which was created in 1941 by Dr...."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: A Cheating Top 10

An introduction, then a list of lots of cool things, shoved into 10 slots, that are not necessarily related to 2008

"...1) Lynd Ward Ward was a woodcut artist whose work illustrates many books. He also produced..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

A Sort of Legend

Author Neil Gaiman is a fantastist and storyteller. Marc Savlov talks to the author and reveals why he's also a legend. Sort of.

"...comic book series of all time, The Sandman, for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. It's enlightening to scan the lineup..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

gen:LOCK Coming to Adult Swim

Rooster Teeth's mecha anime heads to cable, plus more comic news

"...• Friday came the word that, starting in September, DC Comics will be publishing bi-weekly episodes online of the..."

July 7, 2019 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Uncle Staple and Austin’s 13th Annual Independent Media Expo

The weekend of fannish revelry and indie-comics celebration returns

"...of fan-mobbed revelry and DIY merch and so much indie-comics-and-related-subcultural-goodness at Austin’s Millennium Youth Center...."

Sept. 4, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Iron Man

Robert Downey Jr.'s sly take on Marvel Comics' cold warrior elevates everything about this film.

"...wounded but walking, Downey Jr.'s sly take on Marvel Comics' cold warrior Iron Man elevates everything about this film...."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DC Comics Masks: Nine Masks of DC Comics Heroes and Villains toAssemble and Wear

"...DC Comics Masks: Nine Masks of DC Comics Heroes and..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Books Review by Robert Faires

Girls Gone Geek

Weird Girls is an Austin-based website and YouTube channel dedicated to all things geeky, but from a female perspective

"...Danger is the site's resident expert on comics, and she is quick to explain this isn't a..."

May 23, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Stan the Man

The legendary name behind Marvel Comics comes to town for Wizard World

"...If comics have a face, it's not a masked web-slinger or..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW TV Review: Krypton

First look at the Superman without Superman show

"...the pilot, the series digs deep across the entire DC multiverse, and is not bound by anything in the..."

March 17, 2018 SXSW Post by Moisés Chiullán

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