I love comic books. I love the medium, I love the format, I love the potential inherent in words and pictures, of stories bound only by the creators’ imagination. And right now seems to be a particularly good time for…
Tag: Image Comics
Hip-Hop Comics: Jim Mahfood part one (Los Angeles Ink Stains and various early works)
My first exposure to Jim Mahfood’s work was a single-page story in The Song Of Mykal, an anniversary comic published by one of my favorite comic shops (Atlantic Fantasyworld, in Santa Cruz, California). The strip followed a heroic pooch named Smoke…
Depth Of Field presents “Comics And Pop Music” at C2E2 2013!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Comics And Pop Music” panel presentation at C2E2, Saturday, April 27th. Depth Of Field Magazine brings together comic creators and industry professionals to discuss their work combining the worlds of music and comic books On Saturday, April…
Impressions of Free Comic Book Day 2012
Free Comic Book Day is a day when comic shops across America (and the world) give away special edition comics from a variety of publishers. It falls on the first Saturday of May, and serves as both a promotional opportunity…
Pop Music Comics: Twenty-Seven, Second Set
The second story arc of 27 picks up a few months after the close of the first series. The fallen rock star William Garland is learning to live with the mysterious device that turned his life upside-down, and deal with…
Comic Review: Alpha Girl #2 (Image Comics, 2012)
The second installment of this new Image series continues in the same maniacal spirit as issue #1, as authors Jean-Paul Bonjour and Jeff Roenning keep the story moving at a furious pace. This issue is largely spent establishing the scenario…
Image Comics In Review: The Manhattan Projects, The Strange Talent Of Luther Strode, Xenoholics, Butcher Baker The Righteous Maker
Following up on last week’s reviews, here’s another batch of Image comics you should be reading. These ones are all geared toward older audiences (lots of mature themes, not much family-friendly material), so they’re not really suitable for puritanical killjoys…
Image Comics In Review: Peter Panzerfaust, No Place Like Home, Gladstone’s School For World Conquerors, Alpha Girl, Li’l Depressed Boy, Last Of The Greats
Image Comics is on a serious winning streak right now, with a catalog that boasts a wild variety of titles, each strange and unique and totally different that all the others. You see, Image operates as a forum for creator-owned…
Comic Review: Doc Bizarre, M.D. (Image Comics, 2011)
Doc Bizarre, M.D. is the latest transmission from the twisted mind of Joe Casey (acclaimed author of Gødland, Automatic Kafka, The Intimates, Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker, and other strange and wonderful comics). It tells the story of the eponymous…
Comic Review: Screamland (Image Comics, 2011)
Monsters are real. That’s made clear within the first couple pages of this series. Those old-time film boogiemen, they weren’t imaginary. They starred in those movies, playing the roles that were written for them. And now that they’ve gotten old,…