It’s been a lengthy stretch of travel for writer James Tynion IV, with trips to varying conventions across Europe and beyond over the past calendar year. And as you may know, I myself just returned from a vacation in France. As two people who can’t turn off our comic brains, both James and myself walked … Continued

A lot can happen in a month. Take writer James Tynion IV’s life and career, for example. When we initially recorded our fourth monthly conversation in our SKTCHDxTiny Onion series of interviews about his work and its place in the broader comic book industry — back in ye olden days of March 24, 2023 — … Continued

Everyone has their characters. That’s been a common topic in conversations I’ve had of late, both for interviews and outside of them, and it’s not just their characters. The recurring theme has been it isn’t always the A-listers that draw our love, but the C-listers and below that really lock in our passion for superhero … Continued

The comics you read and the comic experiences you have early on in your life often form the building blocks of your relationship with the medium. Obviously what you’ll enjoy expands from there, but for readers, those earliest experiences can be enormously influential on you going forward. It’s the same for our favorite creators. Some … Continued

The third month of the SKTCHDxTiny Onion Studios collaboration is here, as this year-long series of monthly interviews with writer James Tynion IV arrives to discuss the changing marketplace from a broader creator perspective. It’s a time of great uncertainty in the comic industry, with significant changes coming the past few years at nearly every … Continued

It’s Month Two of 2023’s ongoing SKTCHDxTiny Onion collaboration, as we’re back for February’s conversation between writer James Tynion IV and myself about the wider world of comics from his perspective. While the first chat was firmly focused on the broader business side of things, this one takes a different direction, as we hopped on … Continued

I think we can all agree: the digital download comics space is ripe for new options. With Comixology’s rapid, self-created decline as an appealing, functional choice thanks to its much-maligned update last year and the significant layoffs its mothership Amazon recently delivered to its halls, comic fans are waiting for an alternative that combines a … Continued

Before it was an Amazon show or a burgeoning media empire, and even before The Walking Dead — both the TV series and the comic — existed, Invincible was there. While writer Robert Kirkman had written comics, he never had a hit before. It may have taken a minute for it to get there, but … Continued

An interview series between James Tynion IV and myself launches today.

The comics you read and the comic experiences you have early on in your life often form the building blocks of your relationship with the medium. Obviously what you’ll enjoy expands from there, but for readers, those early experiences can be enormously influential on you going forward. It’s the same for our favorite creators. Some … Continued