Can comics go deeper than surface metaphors concerning myth and worship and explore foundational truths? Can comics depict where human experience touches on the unknowable? And if it can, should it? Two of North America’s finest young cartoonists, Sammy Harkham (Crickets, The Poor Sailor, Kramer’s Ergot) and Kevin Huizenga (Ganges, Curses) explore the [...]

Pictured Left to Right: Evan Dorkin, Daughter, Sarah Dyer, Katheryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Matt Fraction, and Tom Spurgeon

There are a surprising number of couples in comics where both partners are working in the industry in some capacity; and most of them are attending this year’s HeroesCon! Tom Spurgeon [...]

Join the Comics Reporter’s Tom Spurgeon for a roundtable discussion on webcomics, from conception and creation to marketing and–what?–profitability. With guests Nicholas Gurewitch, David Malki, Julia Wertz, Chris Harding, Danielle Corsetto, and more!
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After such a big and exciting (plus tiring) Heroes Con 2008, the guys still manage to talk about what we read (or didn’t read) last week, the tragic passing of Michael Turner, the sad death of George Carlin and a little flick called Wanted on this friendly neighborhood edition of the Dollar Bin.
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The Comics Reporter’s Tom Spurgeon moderates what’s sure to be one of the most fascinating conversations of the weekend, in this roundtable discussion featuring artist and Image publisher Erik Larsen, DC Executive Editor Dan Didio, writer/artist Jimmy Palmiotti (COUNTDOWN, JONAH HEX), and writer and Boom! Studios Editor-In-Chief Mark Waid.
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From critical favorite his like MAGGOTS and POWR MASTRS, to prominence in influential anthologies like KRAMER’S ERGOT, “art” or “abstract” or “out” comics are pushing boundaries of the avant garde in comics. Join Tom Spurgen of the Comics Reporter as he sits down with Picturebox publisher Dan Nadel, KRAMER’S ERGOT editor Sammy Harkham and [...]

This summer, Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction begin their run on UNCANNY X-MEN starting with its milestone 500th issue– but what happens next? From a move to San Francisco to the Hellfire Cult and the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants, get all the X-Buzz straight from the horses’ mouths, as it were. Though [...]

Criticism, Reportage, and Gossip
The digital age has allowed a deeper understanding of comics criticism and reporting than has ever been possible before. Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reporter moderates this discussion featuring some of the leading lights on the comics journalism scene, including Heidi MacDonald of The Beat, [...]

Super panel moderator Tom Spurgeon conducts this chat with a who’s who of artists and writers, featuring Darwyn Cooke (DC NEW FRONTIER), Matt Fraction (INVINCIBLE IRON MAN), Jimmy Palmiotti (COUNTDOWN), Cliff Chiang (GREEN ARROW & BLACK CANARY), and Barry Kitson (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN). From collaboration with other creators, editors, or big company-wide crossovers, it can be [...]

Heroes Convention will be the bomb just like Matt Fraction. Sadly, this segment was recorded prior to the lack of Brubaker announcement.
Get ready true believers, because it is almost time for our favorite comic book event of the year, Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC! This week we continue owur 2 part Heroes Con 2008 [...]