Osamu Tezuka's influence on comics and animation is monumental. Before Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Chainsaw Man, and countless other manga and anime that found devoted audiences across the world,… Read the rest of the article: New documentary explores the astonishing legacy of manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka
Tradd Moore is one of those cartoonists whose pages, filled with riotous color and ridiculously-cool eyeball kicks, can genuinely drop your jaw. In Silver Surfer: Black it's cosmic psychedelia. In… Read the rest of the article: Tradd Moore's first creator-owned comic is coming from Oni Press
AHOY Comics is launching its first Kickstarter, and it's doing so with a project that sounds right in Mark Russell's wheelhouse: a satirical science fiction drama about UFO cults, conspiracy… Read the rest of the article: Mark Russell's new graphic novel explores the strange comfort of cults
Mike Mignola's wonderfully strange Lands Unknown universe keeps getting stranger. Dark Horse Comics has announced Uri Tupka and the Devils, a new 104-page graphic novel that continues the adventures of… Read the rest of the article: Mike Mignola throws Uri Tupka to the devils
When I was a kid first getting into comics, there was something about Dick Tracy that genuinely made me uneasy. I was already into Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, other popular spandex… Read the rest of the article: Revisiting the strange world of Dick Tracy
Dave Baker's Halloween Boy Vol. 1: Last of the Halloween Boys is a super-fun and clever mash-up of old-school pulp adventure comics, underground comix, and postmodern ennui, all brewed together… Read the rest of the article: Dave Baker's "Halloween Boy" resurrects pulp adventure comics
Mathieu Bablet builds intricate, believable worlds and then plops you into the middle of them without a map. Silent Jenny, his latest feat of confident dystopian worldbuilding, is finally getting… Read the rest of the article: Mathieu Bablet's "Silent Jenny" explores what's left of us when the bees are gone
Dave Baker has a knack for making comics that feel like they're barely holding themselves together. His books blur formats, identities, and sometimes the boundaries of reality itself. Mary Tyler… Read the rest of the article: In "Punk'n Heads," the pumpkin masks are mandatory, the identity crisis is optional
In 2023, poet and performer Janaka Stucky crowdfunded Ekphrastic Beasts, an RPG monster bestiary with an unusual creation method at its core: instead of commissioning artists to illustrate pre-written monsters,… Read the rest of the article: An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character
When I first heard about the concept behind the comics adjacent Superfan Podcast, it immediately reminded me of an idea we kicked around at Boing Boing back in our print… Read the rest of the article: The Superfan Podcast Asks Comics Creators the Right Wrong Questions
When Mike Mignola first introduced us to his Lands Unknown in Bowling With Corpses, it felt like creaking open a dusty tome of ancient folktales. Odd, eerie, and sometimes humorous… Read the rest of the article: "Uri Tupka and the Gods" is a cold, dark, and magnificent trek through Mike Mignola's Lands Unknown
Science fiction has long been drawn to the unsettling possibility that reality itself might be some other lifeform's poorly coded simulation. Philip K. Dick spent much of his career wandering… Read the rest of the article: Dead sci-fi author debugs reality in Ben H. Winters' "Benjamin"
One of the interesting things about the history of comics is how many of the medium's most important figures are not always the most visible or celebrated. Take Klaus Janson.… Read the rest of the article: Legendary comics artist Klaus Janson's first US gallery exhibition
If you were entranced by the alien ecosystems and otherworldly vibes of Scavengers Reign (HBO's eerie, slow-burn sci-fi series), you hopefully took note of the name Jonathan Djob Nkondo, the French Cameroonian animator,… Read the rest of the article: Two surreal sci-fi graphic novels from Scavengers Reign artist Jonathan Djob Nkondo launch on Kickstarter
We played a family game recently that I suspect will become a house staple. Hot Streak (CMYK Games, $45, 2-9+, Ages 6+) is a fast, chaotic betting and racing game… Read the rest of the article: Hot Streak: The mascot racing game that turns betting into bedlam
Oni Press has just released a graphic biography on the origin story of Juneteenth, as told through the life of the woman most responsible for making it a national reality.… Read the rest of the article: A graphic history of Juneteenth and the woman who refused to let it go
This June, Oni Press is releasing Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1, a fresh, stand-alone gateway into Matt Kindt's paranoid psychic-espionage universe. Former Mind MGMT agents (the ones who survived… Read the rest of the article: Matt Kindt's paranoid psychic-espionage comic book series "Mind MGMT" returns this June
Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes' Hobtown Mystery Stories has always lived in a strange interzone between Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew sleuth adventures, creepy deep-woods paranoia, and small-town bucolic cuteness. This November… Read the rest of the article: Hobtown Mystery Stories returns with another perfectly unsettling slice of small-town high weirdness
Cartoonist Ben Stenbeck is journeying into Mike Mignola's new shared universe with a story that's closer to horror than anything we saw in Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales… Read the rest of the article: Ben Stenbeck's "The Skinless Man" heading for Lands Unknown
Oni Press has picked up Dave Baker's Halloween Boy, the self-published underground series that's been steadily building a devoted following. The first hardcover volume, Halloween Boy Vol. 1: Last of… Read the rest of the article: Cult comic "Halloween Boy" in new hardcover edition
