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To be honest I've never worked it out myself! I don't think its essential! Enjoy the lovingly rendered lady-bottoms! Just read my first dose of Jamie and Gilbert Hernandez (Soft High Lisp & New Stories). I don't care for Gilbert's writing at all, but Jamie has been interesting. Also been...

Thats slightly misleading. Moore and Gibbons created Watchmen with the understanding that a year after the series stopped being published, the rights would revert to them. Of course, DC kept the series continually in print for 25 years. So, they were pretty much hung out to dry by contract...

Just read Will Eisner's "Life on another planet", which I grabbed on a whim. I never realised Eisner had done any kind of science fiction until I read it. The book follows the political and social machinations and espionage that results after a signal from space is discovered. The event...

@Talhe - Looked it up. Yeop, looks like ****. I like some adult comics (Ignacio Noe, Serpieri, etc) but this just looks terrible.

My picks from this year: Comic book Film: "Gantz" Foreign Language comic (in english) - "The Drops of God" New ongoing series: "Blue Estate" (Image comics) OGN: Joseph Lambert's "I will bite you" best comic overall: Anders Nilsen's "Big Questions" Discussed in more detail here (along...

In terms of difference between graphic novels and comics, its a contentious question, and the terms have been co-opted into marketing buzz words, so they don't really mean much anymore. There SHOULD be a thematic difference (as you mention), but these days random and inane superhero books are...

Hello all, I'm putting together my selections for the best (or my favourite) comics of 2011 for the comics podcast I co-host ("Extra Sequential"), QUESTION FOR YOU GUYS/GIRLS: What are your selections of your favourite books/comics/manga from this year? My shortlist so far: Big...

I like the Batman "Black & White" books, there's three volumes and they collect a wide range of notable artists and writers so its a fine cross-section of many different kinds of Batman stories. I would suggest checking out GCPD, its a great series. Not really about Batman, its about the...

Both titles come from a similar era, and are aesthetically very similar, though they have different attitudes towards science fiction. I don't know really... Alternate realities were always a part of both series, and this seems a better fit than the Star Trek meet X-men (which exists, and is...

Re-reading some of the original 1930s Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse comics. My favorite scene so far is when Horace Horsecollar is seconds away from being lynched by an angry mob. I also like the bit where Clarabell Cow arms herself with a shotgun. These comics are so awesome by the way, they...

This is great, thanks everyone for the comments and critiques etc! Its nice to see some passionate discussion on the topic :) We tried to cover all of points raised here on the show, I think we got an interesting discussion out of it. Check out the podcast episode if you feel so inclined...

@CyBer - We can surely do better than pointing to Vertigo for non-super books, but I think the point would be that THE most visible and popular type of comic in the English-speaking work is Superheroes, and compares well to the most popular kind of comic in Japan, which is to say, they're both...

Absolutely a difference in pace, and much of that is because manga-ka are often writing for the screen... They hope and expect if their manga is a hit, there'll be an anime based on it, so it makes sense that their writing almost reads like a storyboard. But I'd say that modern superhero...

You cannot honestly say that most manga art, whoever its aimed at, doesn't fit within those certain sets of artistic constraints which make up the 'modern' manga style (its not fair to bring up artists from the 70s etc, since they had different 'common' styles back then). Shojo and Shonen...

You definitely have a point there, there's a certain sameness to a lot of the art, and a lot of that comes from the way its produced, usually with a team of assistants and a VERY tight publishing schedule. Most books are done by a single artist/writer, and often the art just isn't up to a...

Hello all, curious to throw this out to you guys and girls. I host a comics podcast, this week we'll be doing a beginner's guide to manga. Recommendations, advice, and where to start (& where NOT to start). Anyway, the questions for you folks: For fans of manga: Why do you read it? How...

Hey Magnus, I only recently had a chance to read The Courtyard in full. I didn't realise Neonomicon follows on from it directly. Yeah the Courtyard is a much better story, for me anyway. The violent elements are held back much more, while the insane reality-bending parts are more...

Re: What Style Do You Feel's Best? I don't have time to do a full breakdown like Magnus, and it would be redundant because all of his comments are spot on. As a general comment, keep this in mind: Try not to write like you would with a prose novel. Certain sentence structures are necessary...

The beginning, definitely. Thats what a publisher will ask to see. If you aren't able to hook a reader (or us :D ) with the first 22 pages of your comic, you're not going to keep them around for 1000. As an aside, regarding your concern about needing to give people all this information...

Sure, would love to have a look