by Rick Coste | Feb 2, 2021 | News
Marvel Entertainment Source: ‘Marvel’s Declassified’: Kelly Sue DeConnick on Creating History with Captain Marvel
by Rick Coste | Jan 28, 2021 | News
Women cartoonists have been important to the industry for long and they’ve met more visibility lately. But how have they changed comic books? While in the past it may have seemed like the comic book industry was comprised of only male writers and artists, women...
by Rick Coste | Jan 28, 2021 | News
“Right now, the most underrated character at DC Comics is Poison Ivy,” fan-favorite writer Gail Simone tweeted last year. “When she is given a proper spotlight, she steals every scene. Readers love her. Why she doesn’t get the treatment of...
by Rick Coste | Jan 26, 2021 | News
Two formidable careers. Two unique creators. Ann Nocenti is aware she is the Lou Reed of Marvel Comics. I could go on at length about her carving out space in mainstream comics for more nuanced characters, or how confronting the military-industrial complex in the...
by Rick Coste | Jan 22, 2021 | Illustrators, Modern Age, Writers
Jill Thompson When DC Editor Karen Berger hired Jill Thompson to illustrate Wonder Woman, there was no way she could have known she was hiring a future multi-Eisner award winner. There were hints, and they became gradually more evident when Neil Gaiman spotted her...