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

Elsa Charretier, James Tynion IV, and PK Colinet are comic creators first and foremost, but they’re also true hyphenates. They’re people who are always looking for ways to push their skills and footprints as storytellers and individuals, which is part of the reason they’re thriving as much as they are. That said, some things are … Continued

If you weren’t doing what you did for a living, what would you want to do? Not what would you do, but what would you want to do? That’s a much tougher question, perhaps. Personally? I’d be a traveling food journalist, where I go around the world eating food and then eating strings of sentences … Continued

Comic characters are known for team-ups, but being roommates? That’s a fairly unusual form at team-up. But recently at Emerald City Comic Con, I made creators like Daniel Warren Johnson, Rachael Stott, Brian Stelfreeze, and more contemplate who would make the best one, as each was asked to come up with the comic character they’d … Continued

Apparently the marriage of Substack and comics will continue onwards, as last week brought two new entrants to the Substack Pro Grant space – writers Joshua Williamson and Matthew Rosenberg – as the email newsletter platform’s stable of creators continues to grow. Will they be the last? Maybe, maybe not, but the point is, two … Continued

When the day at conventions end and creators are looking for something to do with pals in the industry they haven’t seen in a while, would you believe that one popular answer is karaoke? It’s a common tale, one in which writers, artists, and everyone else finds them in a room with their peers not … Continued

On Panel is a monthly-ish, text-only sister series to Off Panel, my weekly comics interview podcast, in which each interview features two or more guests as I attempt to simulate the idea of a panel conversation from a conversation. By that I mean it’s a moderator – myself – guiding a free-flowing conversation between multiple … Continued

Everyone needs a break from their job from time to time. That might especially be the case for comic creators, whose work is often rather rigorous and dominant in their brains. But what do they do to get away, when they need an escape from their drawing table or keyboard? Everyone has a different answer, … Continued