May 29, 2012
By Jeremy Nisen
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The Li'l Depressed Boy from Image Comics chronicles the non-adventures of the ragdoll-like "LDB." The ongoing comic series from Image may be especially appealing to music fans, with numerous guest-stars from the music world gracing the pages, including Childish Gambino. Artist Sina Grace shares all. More
May 25, 2012
By Kyle Lemmon
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DC Comics' much-anticipated Earth 2 landed in stores this month as part of the Second Wave of the New 52. Earth 2 writer James Robinson spoke with Under the Radar about the his big plans for Earth 2's metaphysical environment, the historical allusions in his latest work, the day-to-day struggles of being a comic book writer, The Shade, and his thoughts on friends Geoff Johns and Sterling Gates. More
Jan 19, 2012
By Kyle Lemmon
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Scott Snyder had a very successful year in 2011 with his creator-owned American Vampire comic, Batman: Gates of Gotham, and his excellent Black Mirror run for DC Comics' Detective Comics series. He now writes for Batman and Swamp Thing in DC's New 52 universe that rebooted last fall. More
Oct 17, 2011
By Jeremy Nisen
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Pittsburgh's Ed Piskor, 29, recently finished the online version of his 400+ page graphic novel, Wizzywig, and he says it'll be available online for a "little bit of time" before being given the collected treatment by Top Shelf. Wizzywig is the story of Kevin Phenicle, aka "Boingthump," a phone phreaker/hacker during the early days of high-tech computing who is sort of a pastiche of several real-life phreakers/hackers. More
Sep 21, 2011
By Kyle Lemmon
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We chatted with the DC artist extraordinaire Cliff Chaing (Green Arrow & Black Canary, Zatanna) about the overall tone of the new Wonder Woman series he is drawing, his thoughts on violence and female sexuality in comics, and the DC Comics - The New 52 Art Tour. More
May 05, 2011
By Jeremy Nisen
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Eye of the Majestic Creature, which is now available from Fantagraphics, merges the quirky & surreal with a refreshing sort of honesty. Leslie Stein took the time to answer our questions about slice of life comics, musical influences, and anthropomorphic guitars. More
Apr 26, 2011
By Jeremy Nisen
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Sean Dove, Josh Emmons, Mike Norton, and Tim Seeley comprise
Four Star Studios. The Chicago-based comic book creators initially sought merely to work somewhere besides their homes, but quickly grew to appreciate the talent they'd collected in one spot
—and decided to capitalize. The project that has comics fans buzzing, as well as those interested in the business of self-publishing, is
DoubleFeature. Under the Radar caught up with Emmons, Norton, and Seeley. More
Mar 07, 2011
By Jeremy Nisen
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Winston Rowntree, the pseudonymous creator of webcomic Subnormality, has really captured something that is more than the sum of the comic's wholly enjoyable parts. The art is vibrant and busy and pretty tightly rendered, which really emphasizes the goofiness, scariness, attractiveness, or awkwardness of the various characters and situations. The characters are tempered in personality and originality, both artwise and wordwise. Perhaps some of the humor
—and philosophy
—can be gleaned from the home page's tag phrase of "Comix with too many words since 2007." More
Feb 17, 2011
By Jeremy Nisen
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Gingerbread Girl is an upcoming original graphic novel created by the husband and wife team of Paul Tobin (writer) and Colleen Coover (artist). The book is being marketed in an interesting way: Top Shelf, the publisher, is posting pages of it online, for free, before the "tree pulp" version arrives in May. So really, there's no excuse not to check it out at Top Shelf 2.0 (along with some other fine content). Colleen and Paul took some time to answer a few questions about the book, and more. More
