Features

Brian Haberlin & Brian Holguin Unite Medieval Spawn and Witchblade in a Brutal New Miniseries

| By Jakob Free

Brian Haberlin first became friends with Brian Holguin as a teen, when both attended neighboring high schools La Canada and La Crescenta in Southern California. Holguin and his brother, Kevin, hooked Haberlin on comics by showing him the great sequential works of the ’70s and the ’80s, including iconic runs from Frank Miller, Jim Starlin, John Byrne, and Wally Wood.

Family and Freedom Race West in Rick Remender and Bengal’s Death Or Glory

| By Mark Peters

The dramatic tagline is worthy of a summer blockbuster: “FIVE thousand miles, FOUR heists, THREE days, TWO psychopaths, and ONE woman who’s had enough.” But at its core, Death Or Glory—a new Image series written by Rick Remender and illustrated by French upstart Bengal—is a relatable story about a kickass heroine dealing with relatable problems, as well as insane mayhem. It also dives deep into political realities that plague 27 million Americans without health insurance, a scenario Remender became intimately familiar with early in his career.

The Cyberpunk Renaissance

| By Mark Peters

How Analog, Paradiso, Lazarus, and Cyber Force Are Reconstructing the Genre of Technology and Rebellion.

Brian Azzarello Brews Barroom Inspiration in 3 Floyds: Alpha King and Moonshine

| By Robert Tutton

Writers have long been known to find their inspiration at the bottom of a bottle, with humanity’s history of fermenting grains stretching back nearly twice as far as the written word.

Why I Believe in Comics, by Grace Ellis

Let’s start out by being clear about something that is hopefully already evident: LGBTQ people are everywhere. We’re in your offices, your schools, your bathrooms, your Image+ magazines. And, most relevantly, we’ve got our gay creator hands all over your comic books. A second fact that is hopefully already evident: none of this is new, not even our involvement in comics, not even in mainstream superhero comics. After all, who knows more about living a double life or secret identities than a closeted queer person? We’re here, we’ve always been here, and anyone in a moral panic about LGBTQ people in comics is at least 75 years too late to stop us.

Secret Identities: Son of Hitler Scribe Anthony Del Col on Managing Pop Stars

Comic creators aren’t made: they’re forged. The women and men who devote their lives to sequential storytelling contain a pandora’s box of stories all their own, often reflected in their comics. In Secret Identities, we quiz creators on the most noteworthy, bizarre, and outlandish gigs.

Former Editors Embrace Their Id as Writers and Artists

Pornsak Pichetshote, Sebastian Girner, and Cliff Chiang on Shifting Roles and Ideologies.

Jeff Lemire Works Through the Horror in Gideon Falls

Jeff Lemire's work is violence. Ask him about it and he'll tell you why: because comics are.

Why I Believe In Comics, By Wes Craig

I’ve always wanted to create comics. Ever since I was a kid, that’s all I wanted to do. I loved drawing, but I didn’t think to myself, “Maybe I’ll work as a storyboard artist, or be a commercial illustrator.” I was in love with telling stories with these little drawings inside these boxes. I wanted to tell stories with comics. That’s it.

Atkins & Finnegan on adapting CROSSROAD BLUES and capturing the spirit of Mississippi [INTERVIEW]

Let's take a trip to the deep South—the Mississippi Delta—and learn more about the legendary blues musician Robert Johnson and the forthcoming graphic novel adaptation of CROSSROAD BLUES, co-created by Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Ace Atkins and artist Marco Finnegan.