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Comic Books Featured Dark Horse Comics Launches a Revolution

October 12, 2010 - 10:22 am

Dark Horse Comics, the publisher that revolutionized creator-owned comics announced a new and ambitious digital publishing plan that’s set to do the same for sequential storytelling in the digital medium! By creating and managing its own digital publishing program—the Dark Horse Bookshelf app—Dark Horse Comics has eliminated third party fees on its digital editions. Not only will readers be able to enjoy Dark Horse comics at lower prices, but comic creators will receive a greater percentage of each digital sale. In short, readers pay less for their comics and creators make more money.

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Comic Books Not at Comic-Con: Super Heroes Wrap Up

by Shop Keeper

August 4, 2010 - 9:57 am

Well… If you didn’t make it to the party down in San Diego this year (AKA Comic-Con), Don’t feel bad because you were not alone. Washer-Man, Lawn-Boy, and Popsicle Girl were commissioned to keep the peace at locations outside San Diego (and they took their respective jobs quite seriously I might add), blazing through lawns and dishes and grocery lists in all locations not San Diego. Take a peek.

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Comic Books Evan Dorkin – Beasts of Burden, The Mask, Predator

by Aaron Colter

July 25, 2010 - 4:43 pm

Evan Dorkin is probably best known for his underground hit ‘Milk & Cheese’, but he’s been doing work for Dark Horse Comics since the early 90′s and has even penned a strange ‘Hellboy’ tale. His recent collaboration with famous water-colorist Jill Thompson on ‘Beasts of Burden’ has earned him nothing short of absolute praise, and garnered the creative team several industry awards including an Eisner. The hardcover collection of ‘Beasts of Burden’ is set to be released this August.

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Comic Books Ben Stenbeck – Witchfinder, Baltimore

by Aaron Colter

July 25, 2010 - 4:25 pm

Ben Stenbeck is an established illustrator from New Zealand who first starting working with Dark Horse on President Mike Richardson’s series ‘Living with the Dead’. Since then, Stenbeck has gone on to work with ‘Hellboy’ creator Mike Mignola on ‘B.P.R.D.’ and the series ‘Witchfinder’. This fall he teams up with Mignola again, and novelist Christopher Golden, on ‘Baltimore’.

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Comic Books Featured The GOON Throws a Wrench in the Works

by Dustin Downing

July 25, 2010 - 4:11 pm

Do you like Zombies? How about mad scientists? What if I throw in some large fella with mob ties who beats people/monsters with a large wrench…? SOLD! But, If you were dead for the last 12 years or, Buddha forbid, not into comic books; then you might not know I’m speaking of the other worldly comic series The GOON. Or as series creator and 5 times Eisner Award winner Eric Powell describes it, “A dark comedy about a street thug, in a world of monsters.” Ah, Quaint.

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Comic Books Gallery CREEPY: A Lost Gem of Horror, Back From the Dead at Comic-Con

by Jeff Nau and Zoetica Ebb

July 23, 2010 - 12:11 pm

If you’ve never heard of Creepy Magazine, you’re missing one of the greatest black-and-white pulp-horror comic publications of the past 50 years (which certainly narrows it down) — sort of a bastard love child, and perhaps the result of a tryst between tamer fare like Tales From The Crypt and The Vault of Horror. Under the Taliban-like regime of the Comics Code Authority, that silly little ban on anything having to do with dirty language and naughty bits, though, the twisted genius of Creepy remained largely unknown for decades.

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Comic Books Dean Motter – Mister X, Electropolis

by Aaron Colter

July 22, 2010 - 9:40 am

Dean Motter is the legendary designer, illustrator, and writer most known for his masterpiece ‘Mister X Archives’ that launched the careers of other famous creators like Jaime Hernandez and Dave McKean. The collection, a fusion of Art Deco, German Expressionism and Film Noir, recently won Print magazine’s Regional Design Award and the PubWest Award. Motter has since released ‘Mister X: Condemned’ which continues to explore the philosophy of psychetecture – the idea that a city’s layout can influence its citizen’s emotional state – through antique futurism. His work is currently on exhibit at The Cité in Paris along side original art from Windsor McCay’s ‘Little Nemo’.

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Comic Books John Jackson Miller: Not at Comic-Con

by Aaron Colter

July 20, 2010 - 10:33 am

John Jackson Miller, or ‘JJM’ as he is lovingly referred to on comic forums, is the writer of ‘Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’ and ‘Mass Effect: Redemption’ which he co-wrote with Mac Walters, the lead writer of Mass Effect 2. This fall, Miller will write ‘Star Wars: Knight Errant’ for Dark Horse Comics in addition to writing a novel for Random House Books based on the same time period and characters. As part of Dark Horse Comics’ San Diego Comic-Con announcements, Miller will continue working with Mac Walters on a new series titled ‘Mass Effect: Evolution.’

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Comic Books Chris Onstad: ‘Worst Song, Played on Ugliest Guitar’

by Aaron Colter

July 19, 2010 - 4:18 pm

Chris Onstad is the writer and illustrator of the popular webcomic ‘Achewood’ which TIME Magazine named the #1 graphic novel of 2007. His work has since gone on to win back-to-back Ignatz Awards and earn praise from The New York Times, The New Yorker, and humorist Dave Barry. He has two books with Dark Horse Comics – ‘The Great Outdoor Fight’ and ‘Worst Song, Played on Ugliest Guitar’ with ‘A Home For Scared People’ set to be released this fall.

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