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

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