Americans 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:
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Third, JTR3 and I have had our creative heads buried in the next AMERICANS UK album, titled, Where Giants Walk, for a couple-to-four [...]
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. This episode of the Trip City Podcast was produced by [...]
Trip City Northwest correspondent Ryan Alexander-Tanner talks to Pulitzer-Prize nominated, nationally syndicated political cartoonist Matt Bors, who recently released his first collection of comics, Life Begins at Incorporation, after a successful Kickstarter campaign. The discussion includes Bors’ early life as a fanboy, his growing political awareness, his obsessive work ethic, future career plans, and [...]
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The Red Hook
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.
SCHMUCK 11: The Lapdate
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 [...]
AQUANAUTS – PREVIEW
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 – CHAPTER FIVE: CHURCH OF KANSAS CITY
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 [...]
PODCAST 33: FRED VAN LENTE + CRYSTAL SKILLMAN
Fantastic Forty-Six
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 [...]
Beacon Lights: Cosey
(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 [...]
The Reception: The Funeral of Hearts
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 [...]
Sal & Chrys
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, [...]
PODCAST 32: MATT BORS
Thomas Alsop: The Hand of the Island (Official Trailer)
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 [...]
