AM/UK loves Daft Punk, let me start. Second, listen/dance to this funky little ditty we came up with, and keep in mind how much everybody should also want to be Prince:
THE RED HOOK is Dean Haspiel’s Brooklyn homage to the truncated storytelling and limited color palette of the Silver Age of superhero pulp noir. A 21st Century wink to the 1960s styles of Alex Toth, Will Eisner, and Jack Kirby by way of Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, and Buster Keaton.
Read past installments of SCHMUCK Christa Cassano is a Brooklyn-based artist and illustrator who recently came into comics by way of a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Christa is a member of Hang Dai studios in Gowanus, Brooklyn and the comics collective Studio Yolo. Look for her comic “Lonesome Vibrato” in the [...]
100 years in the future, humans travel the oceans in fish-shaped space-ships. What cities survive are submerged. Days are dark across the globe, dust and smoke from the asteroid’s impact clouding the atmosphere. These seas are ruled by the Aquanauts, the offspring of an experimental, underwater research lab and military training base launched off the [...]
MENU by Matthew Rosenberg & Patrick Kindlon, is the story of a boy and a dog wandering the wastelands of a future America as they try to keep each other alive in a world running out of food. Episode Five: Church of Kansas City is drawn by Rick Veitch with colors by Sloane Leong. Episode One – Remember Dodge City: http://welcometotripcity.com/2013/02/menu-remember-dodge-city/ Episode [...]
I was not prepared for what Arlen was going to do with my words. What started as a candid response to the art and business of making comix turned into this beautiful gift from artist/designer/comic book historian, Arlen Schumer. If you know me, you know that I love The Fantastic Four and, despite my healthy [...]
(scroll down to enjoy the story) Beacon Lights by Minneapolis cartoonist George Jurard, is a series of loosely inter-locking stories that take place over the course of 200 years. Throughout our lives, we are perpetually in the act of pursuit. We are always seeking something in the distance— a beacon, a light, that calls us [...]
Perspective is the one distinguishing aspect of life that truly makes us alone in a crowd. Other people in attendance at a particular event or function around you might see what you see, hear what you hear, but their experiences leading up to, during, and after is what may isolate their lives from yours. Shared events and [...]
Writer Charles Soule (Strange Attractors, Swamp Thing, Thunderbolts) and artist Robert Saywitz tell a New York love story that only graphic fiction could get right. Featuring lettering by Shawn Depasquale, Sal & Chrys combines romance and architectural history to realize this unique, comix short story. Click HERE to learn more about Charles Soule’s work with Image Comics, [...]
Thomas Alsop: The Hand of the Island, is an occult investigator who’s family has been charged with the task of protecting Manhattan from supernatural events for the last 300 years. He’s also the host of the popular cable TV show, “Thomas Alsop: Supernatural Detective. The Promo for Thomas Alsop: The Hand of the Island is [...]
Jef UK talks with writer Fred Van Lente about his work on Amazing Spider-Man, Incredible Hercules, Archer & Armstrong, G.I.JOE, his craft, and how he broke into professional comics. Then, playwright Crystal Skillman discusses her play Geek!, and the New York City, Off-Broadway scene.
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The NY Post interviewed me about my new webcomic, THE RED HOOK. You can read about it here and then read the actual comic! Article excerpt: “Haspiel set the story in the area due to its lingering feel of small-town lawlessness — making it ripe for a tale about crime and mayhem, he said. [...]
elizabethamber: @owenweetch @deanhaspiel One of my all-time favorites and I'm crushed that it got "lost" in one of my moves. Box of GNs went missing.
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