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At last weeks ComicsPRO Summit, Dynamite Entertainment announced a new Army Of Darkness comic book event to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the

BANG! POW! BOOM! Comics in the United States are full of onomatopoeias that emphasize action. In addition, our comics encourage the reader’s participation with fun but unrealistic hero stories that focus almost exclusively on fast-paced intrigue.    It is pretty fair to say that due to the culture o

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All games are rituals. Any game with a story attached to it, even a story as general as that of chess, is a kind of ritual reenactment. A game as abstra...

Tim Fielder Details the Legacies of Radical Black Imaginaries January 21, 2021 Every art form has an economy that surrounds and fuels its standing within the world’s cultural systems. The very survival of many industries is absolutely dependent upon the products generated by those forms as artisans of industry utilize their tools to design, manufacture, distribute, and market to willing consumers. Corporations have long employed the imaginations of futurists (those who forecast the trends in ...

Adam is the creator of  The Tide comics series and Rich and Strange Press, his publishing imprint. Alongside his work as an artist and writer, he is also a "suit" – a trained picture editor, IP, image, and brand consultant and has worked for many art galleries and in TV over the past 20 years. He writes for Bleeding Cool, All my work is produced from my studio based in Sheffield in the UK, a city home to a vibrant arts scene. Here,  I focus on creating painted-worlds for my own books (and s...

On the surface, comics faced no more hurdles in 2020 than any other retail offering. As isolated people around the world turned to familiar sources of entertainment, distraction, and solace, comics were there for them, from nonfiction graphic novels to the latest dimension hopping adventures of eternally entangled superhero continuity. Even as COVID-19 safety measures began to set new boundaries on everyday life, the American comics industry seemed handily poised to keep making comics. The lif...