On Friday March 29th, Depth Of Field is proud to present the “Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining” panel at WonderCon in Anaheim California. Since being added to WonderCon’s programming in 2012, this panel has become an eagerly-anticipated piece of the…
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Statement on Hip-Hop And Comics and New York Comic Con 2022
We’ve been getting questions about why Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining isn’t on the schedule at New York Comic Con this year, and as the organizer, moderator, and public face of these programs for the past decade+, I wanted to…
Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining Returns to San Diego Comic-Con in 2022!
On Friday July 22, Depth Of Field is proud to bring the “Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining” panel back to San Diego Comic-Con as part of SDCC’s first full-scale in-person event since 2019. This panel will be hosted and moderated…
Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining At New York Comic-Con 2021
On Saturday, October 9th, Depth Of Field is proud to present “Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining” as part of New York Comic-Con’s in-person programming at the Javits Center. This panel will be hosted and moderated by Depth Of Field’s own…
Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining Celebrates Rappin’ Max Robot At San Diego Comic-Con 2021
Comic-Con@Home presents a very special program commemorating the first Hip-Hop comic book, premiering online July 23rd at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern In the summer of 1986, a young graffiti artist and graphic designer from the South Bronx, Eric Orr, took the…
Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining At San Diego Comic-Con 2020
Comic-Con@Home presents an all-star “visual mixtape” conversation, premiering online July 24th at 6PM Pacific / 9PM Eastern For the past eight years, ‘Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining’ has been a highlight of San Diego Comic-Con’s programming, occupying a prime-time place…
Stan Lee: A Birthday Remembrance
Ninety-six years ago today – on December 28th, 1922 – Stanley Martin Lieber was born in New York City. As a young adult, he adopted a nom de plume in order to write for comic books. Comics were widely considered…
Comic Book Mini-Review: Jake Lawrence’s Teen Dog!
Teen Dog (BOOM! Box) It would be easy to ascribe the success of Teen Dog to simple nostalgia, and it’s true that the series is a straight-down-the-middle pitch for people of a certain demographic, those who (like me) grew up…
Notes On Jack Kirby: His Influence, Integrity, And Endless Inspiration.
Jack Kirby affected the medium of comics in many ways: he invented and reinvented visual vocabularies, he expanded the scope and scale of the superhero genre beyond simple notions of good and evil, he imagined infinite infinities filled with spotted…
Compare/Contrast: Stan Lee Interviewed In Oui And Playboy, 1977 & 2014
For the last few weeks, the world of comics has been buzzing about Playboy’s new interview with Stan Lee. It’s not that seeing Stan Lee’s name in the news is an earth-shattering event (barely a week goes by when he’s…