Posts Tagged ‘comic art’


Marvel shuts door on “Open Submissions”

April 5th, 2009 by Riff

Interesting article at Newsarama about Marvel closing down their Open Submissions policy. The interview, with C.B. Cebulski is quite open and frank and they way it’s laid out, I can’t see too many flaws in their argument. I say “too many” because – and you get a hint of this from the comments – if [...]

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Reynard City Web Comic

April 4th, 2009 by Riff

Surfing and found an interesting take on the perrenial good vs evil superfight called Reynard City. It’s rather fun and worth a look from what I’ve seen so far. There’s 9 issues thus far, all free to read and it’s featuring a very foxy crew as you might gather from the name. I’m pretty impressed [...]

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Oeming launches new site

February 26th, 2009 by Riff

Michael Avon Oeming has just launched his new site. Looks cool. I love this guys work both his art and his writing. I’m guessing he’s best known for his work with Brian Bendis on Powers, initially published by Image but now part of Marvel under their Icon imprint. He’s also written a great run on [...]

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New Trends in Digital Comics

February 25th, 2009 by Riff

As the mainstream comic producers begin to explore what’s now being called “the digital medium” there’s a bit of a buzz on teh interweb tubes regarding how those trends are developing – and there’s a remarkable surge of creativity as the spotlight focusses on this new medium. Marvel are making a big thing of their [...]

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Superhero: Make your own!

February 23rd, 2009 by Riff

Some people get their knickers in a twist because “it can’t be done.” An online character creator where you can make your own superhero, spec out the look and the powers and then… well most of the time you end up looking at it. Hero Machine have been doing it for a number of years, [...]

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Massively Launch new Web Comic!

February 20th, 2009 by Riff

And guess what… first glimpse features our very very favourite game, City of Heroes with a bit of a chuckler! That’s right. Massively are big CoX fans, and do give the best MMO out there a lot of positive coverage, often despite NCsoft’s best efforts and are now launching a weekly comic dedicated to the [...]

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The Process of Creation

April 11th, 2008 by Riff

If you’ve ever read anything by me before then you’ll know I’ve got a very good friend in Italy who is an extraordinarily talented comic creator. We met playing the game City of Heroes, we were both novices and in awe of the game – it was a chance to BE the kind of superhero [...]

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Image Comics, As Big As They Wanna Be?

April 5th, 2008 by Eblison

In 1992, there was upset in the industry of comic books.  Seven of the biggest artists in the field formed Image Comics, with its fully “creator owned” line-up.  Their big titles at the time were Spawn, Youngblood, Wild C.A.T.s, Cyberforce,  Savage Dragon, ShadowHawk, and Wetworks; and these fresh new titles and the flashy stylized art they had to back them up, quickly pushed [...]

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