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An interview with Guy Dorian, Sr.: The coming of COR!

An interview with Guy Dorian, Sr.: The coming of COR!

This is part two of a two-part interview with Guy Dorian, Sr. the First half  can be found here: CCN would like to direct readers to New York Comic Con 2016  for the premier of COR! which is launching at NYCC (10/6-9/16). We urge that everyone stop in to see Guy Dorian, Sr., Ian Dorian, and Matthew Pallotta and […]

The Devil is Due in Dreary: An interview with David Parkin

The Devil is Due in Dreary: An interview with David Parkin

A pair of strangers with questionable pasts arrive in the reclusive southwestern town of Dreary and unknowingly fulfill an old prophecy that the residents of the town believe will precede the coming of the Apocalypse.  Patterned after iconic Westerns and 1950s rockabilly, this comic is full of classic cars, pompadours, and rock-n-roll mashed up with […]

Mike (”The Bloody Red”) Baron talks Comics, Books, and More!

Mike (”The Bloody Red”) Baron talks Comics, Books, and More!

When we first “met” Mike Baron it was in 1981, when he and artist Steve “The Dude” Rude delivered the comicbook Nexus into our comic shop (no, not personally, but you get what we mean). That series explored a world that was weirdly-eclectic mashup of superhero and science fiction genres, which was set some 500 years into […]

Mort Todd Talks About Making Comics

Mort Todd Talks About Making Comics

“…a group of like-minded nuts have come together to reanimate the spirit of Charlton Comics with our Charlton Neo line.” —Mort Todd

Yi Soon Shin: The Fallen Avenger

Yi Soon Shin: The Fallen Avenger

”Admiral Yi is going up against a Japanese armada of over 333 ships with only 12 ships at his disposal. He’s been beaten, bloodied, and broken and now he’s pissed!“ — Onrie Kompan

Guy Dorian, Sr. interview: The Marvel Years

Guy Dorian, Sr. interview: The Marvel Years

If you don’t know who Guy Dorian, Sr. is, then you simply  haven’t been paying attention. He had his first comic work published at Marvel Comics in New Warriors #48 (1994). Guy so impressed his editor, that it was just the start of his career at Marvel. He’s worked on Marvel Comics Presents, Daredevil, Night […]

DayBlack: A different kind of vampire tale

DayBlack: A different kind of vampire tale

“I really think the idea (of DayBlack) came from being in the tattoo industry and dealing with things like blood-borne pathogens, sterilization, needles, pain, and being exposed to the subculture of tattoo life.” — Keef Cross

The Sea Wolf gets the Classic Illustrated treatment

The Sea Wolf gets the Classic Illustrated treatment

Needless to say, that Papercutz has chosen to revive this delightful series, giving them a new lease on life is one of the simple joys of our existence.

Welcome to the Dead Man Party: A conversation with Scott Barnett

Welcome to the Dead Man Party: A conversation with Scott Barnett

“Dead Man’s Party, is about a world-class assassin and what happens when he’s forced to put a contract out on himself.” — Scott Barnett

Goin’ “Nowhere Man” Mighty fast!

Goin’ “Nowhere Man” Mighty fast!

“To me this is more than just a comicbook. It is a visual narrative effort to capture that sense of loss of hope, disconnectedness, rage, regret, and the determination to carry on, which just happens to be in this particular form of literature we call comics.” — Jerome Walford

The Boston Metaphysical Society

The Boston Metaphysical Society

Writers — especially writers of fiction — are often asked from where they get their ideas. People seem fascinated with how some people can look at the world and say “Why,” while writers seem to be able to look at that self-same world and say, “Why not?” Essentially, that is what lies at the core […]

Write what you know: Joe Martino’s The Mighty Titan #2

Write what you know: Joe Martino’s The Mighty Titan #2

Martino explains that The Mighty Titan experiences, “What it feels like to be invulnerable, and then, suddenly never being able to feel that way again.”

The Measure of a Superhero: Ray Felix

The Measure of a Superhero: Ray Felix

“They’re holding the word ‘superhero’ hostage,” Ray Felix tells us.