Renowned comic book artists Steve Bryant, Phil Hester, and Bill Reinhold will appear at the new Williamson Street Westfield Comics store on November 20 from 1:00-4:00pm, doing sketches, signing works, and selling original comic pages.
Our very own Josh Crawley gives us a quickie on why Comics Should Be Good, what we’ll be doing on Twitter, The Aventures of DB Cooper, Cipher: The Sorcerer Pope, and even Gemma Arterton (again).
by Beau Smith
Most of you have read the title to this week’s column and I know what you’re thinking. I’ve no doubt sparked some, what must be, pleasant memories for you. That or you’re wishing for a time machine and a chance for a re-do.
As I’ve mentioned here in Beauology 101 class before, I have a lot of stuff here at The Flying Fist Ranch. Some of you (and my wife) may call it by its true name, clutter. I call it treasure. Needless to say, when I can, I try and go through the containers, boxes and files and decide what really needs to be kept for the archives, and what needs to be given away or sold. The other evening I found a box with two very special items in it. One was Amazing Heroes #23. (May 15, 1983)
Launched in 2002 as an online comic, Athena Voltaire became one of the most talked about and critically acclaimed series on the Internet. Industry praise included an Eisner Award Nomination for Best Digital Comic in 2005 and the 2007 Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award for series artist Steve Bryant. It has since gone on to be published by Ape Entertainment in two, full-color collections – The Collected Webcomics and Flight of the Falcon. After collaborator Paul Daly left the series, Bryant produced the Athena Voltaire half of the 2009 Black Coat/Athena Voltaire One-Shot (Ape Entertainment), working solo. Westfield’s Master of Disaster, Josh Crawley, talked with Bryant about his exciting upcoming plans for Athena Voltaire, including his interesting way of funding the project.
by Josh Crawley
Making comics isn’t always easy. Making comics doesn’t just end once they’ve been made. There’s printing, advertising, distribution, and following up on each and every one of those; repeatedly. Giant multinational corporations have it easier, but some people don’t want to give up control of those comics to someone else.
Sometimes personal work has to be shelved for corporate jobs that pay the bills.
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