But “what is” can ALWAYS be changed into “WHAT SHOULD BE”—
Trevor Von Eeden

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 […]

Batman fought The Joker. Captain America battled Nazis and The Red Skull. Priya, a rural village girl from India, enters the comic book ring with perhaps the biggest nemesis yet to tackle: violence and sexual abuse against women. Creator Ram Devineni collaborated with artist Dan Goldman to bring his augmented reality comic book Priya’s Shakti […]

Most would argue that every good hero is defined by his rouges gallery; but some would posit that it is the supporting cast…the everyman who populates the world that our myths inhabit that truly defines the heights to which our imagination will soar. After all, these figures are the ones that allow us an access […]

As a student working on her dissertation and finding little information regarding the contributions of African Americans in the field of comics and comics strips, Dr. Sheena Howard found the spark of inspiration for what would eventually serve as the basis for the book Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation (Bloomsbury Publishing). A poignant […]

“…it wasn’t very satisfying and I eventually figured out that what I really wanted to do was tell stories in visual terms, and that, of course, comics was the perfect medium for that.” – Mark Schultz

“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