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Kickstarter alert: Molly Danger by Jamal Igle
Tweet There’s a new Kickstarter on the block—well it will be on August 1st that is. Jamal Igle, artist on more DC books that you can shake a stick at, is starting a campaign for Molly Danger, a four...
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Kick-Watcher: Golem and Igle's MOLLY DANGER
TweetBy: Henry Barajas The comic books projects on Kickstarter just keeps getting better and better. Here are two projects that I found exceptional and worth advocating. Project: Golem Talent/Project...
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NYCC 2012: Kick-Watcher at NYCC
TweetBy: Henry Barajas One of the main reasons why I started writing about Kickstarter projects is because I care a lot about independent creators trying to do their own thing. If you have ever...
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MEGA-INTERVIEW: Cliff Galbraith on the Meteoric Rise of the Asbury Park Comicon
TweetIf you’ve been following the history of the Asbury Park Comicon, which opened only a year ago in March of 2012, you know it’s been a strange, yet rather astonishing ride, but imagine how much...
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NYCC ’13 Panel Recap: From Creator to Consumer
TweetI have a number of panel recaps to write up for you all, so you should expect them to occupy the next few days on the site – and we start with a panel from the ICv2 conference held before the...
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Ty Templeton is home and has some advice for all of us
The Beat has been reporting over the last few weeks on Ty Templeton’s severe heart attack and I’m pleased to report that he’s home and recovering. In Templeton fashion, he made a comic out of it, but...
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Jamal Igle talks Molly Danger, Supergirl, and overcoming failure
Jamal Igle didn’t expect to receive the support he got when he decided to work on his creator owned project, Molly Danger. Igle raised $50,329 to self publish the first installment of the story about...
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On the Scene: what the New Jersey Comic Expo debut says about the state of...
[Disclosure: I was a guest at the NJCE and participated in the programming so bear that in mind as you read what follows.] Are there too many comic cons? Absolutely. Is there room for one more? Almost...
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Jamal Igle announces Action Lab Entertainment departure
Jamal Igle announced to the press that he has stepped down as Action Lab Entertainment’s Vice President of Marketing. “I am a creator and as such, I’m forced to make my multiple creative endeavors a...
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Catalyst Prime: Is this the comics universe we’re looking for?
by Elana Levin It is not too late to fall in love with a new superhero universe in comics. In a time where some publishers have made it clear that they don’t really care if people who aren’t cisgender...
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Osajyefo and Smith’s ‘Black’ optioned by Studio 8
Here’s a “comic book gets optioned” story that has a bit more bite than usual. Black by Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3 (with additional art by Khary Randolph and Jamal Igle) has been optioned for a...
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McDuffie Award add judges de Guzman, Igle and Kendall – submissions open
The 2018 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics are now OPEN, and the selection panel has added three people: Jennifer de Guzman, Jamal Igle and Mikki Kendall. Sadly, it has also lost one, as...
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INTERVIEW: BLACK co-creator Kwanza Osayjefo talks the comic’s creative past,...
Kwanza Osayjefo’s BLACK , the comic he co-created with Tim Smith 3, is a concept that has succeeded at every possible turn. First, it exploded its Kickstarter campaign–blowing past its original goal...
View ArticleA Year of Free Comics: read the complete Black #1 right now
The collected edition of Black, is out this week, and it remains, as it was when it first hit Kickstarter, a torn from the headlines story with a provocative premise: “In a world that already hates and...
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AHOY Comics: a new publisher is coming with bigger issues, poetry and Grant...
It’s been a little minute since we saw the launch of a while new comics company but it looks like the tea leaves are saying go. Ahoy Comics is a new venture fronted by four people: Publisher Hart...
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Ahoy! The Wrong Earth #2 is going back to press
Many “second printing” PR emails are sent out, and many can be ignored, but once in a while one really does say something. Such is the news that Ahoy Comics’ The Wrong Earth #2 is sold out at Diamond...
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Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/6/18: Don’t forget to vote
§ Nice art: For Election Day, let’s flash back to Transmetropolitan’s election, one of the best long running political stories of 90s comics – how innocent those days were. View this post on Instagram...
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Osajyefo and Smith 3 announce WHITE, sequel to acclaimed comic BLACK
Co-creators Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3 have announced White, a new six-part series that stands as a sequel to their acclaimed comic Black. The book, which will also reunite the co-creators with...
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‘Every Day: An Anti-Gun Violence Comics Anthology’ raises awareness through...
Every Day: An Anti-Gun Violence Comics Anthology has entered its final week of fundraising on Kickstarter. This anthology from Comicker Press was conceived in response to the news that 2017 had the...
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PREVIEW: Swing into parallel action with DRAGONFLY & DRAGONFLYMAN #1
Of all of AHOY Comics’s first wave of releases, my favorite by far was The Wrong Earth. The series by Tom Peyer, Jamal Igle, Juan Castro, Andy Troy, and Rob Steen followed Earth-Alpha’s Dragonflyman...
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