I have this enormous book and you should too.

Charles Burns, ''Black Hole'', #1, 1999

James Stokoe’s Orphan Mo and her quest of revenge continues in Orphan and the Five Beasts: Bath of Blood, new this week in comic shops with issue #1! Details: https://bit.ly/4lAEcZa This new series picks up where the first series Orphan and the Five Beasts left off! By @jamesstokoe.bsky.social

Gorgeous screen-tone in this page from 2001 Nights Stories (and this is old enough that it's legit actual physical screen!).

Storm https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/storm-1861

Today is the birthday of artist, writer, and teacher, Joe Kubert (Sept. 18, 1926-Aug. 12, 2012).

You can read the entire first issue in black-and-white right now if you have any reservations. Barajas means playing cards. Gambling goes back generations in my family. This is a big gamble. And the chips are down. But remember, the house always wins. I'm the house, baby. Brick house.

🚨Macabre Valley #1 is LIVE🚨 A grindhouse Texas horror comic, based on my time as a reporter covering night cops in McAllen, Texas...with pulpy horror madness added in. (w) Me (a) Anna Readman (c) @20eyesbrad.bsky.social (l) @beccasee.bsky.social Back it now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour. "Manben" is such a great TV program. >> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

ORPHAN AND THE FIVE BEASTS: 🩸 BATH OF BLOOD 🩸 out this September 24th

COPRA R8 is out! Thank you forever: Kat, O, Adam, Jason, Tucker, Tom, the stores, the festivals, the podcasts, Image, Bergen, Squad fans, art comic enthusiasts. You stuck with me for a decade plus, fifty issues of the most loving revenge comics. My appreciation for your attention knows no bounds.

SPX signings with @ronaldwim.bsky.social, Shannon Wright and @kevinjaystanton.bsky.social! LAAB launch party with @benpassmore.bsky.social at Fantom Comics! Not to be missed.

Comic creators: Don't use the Atlantic search tool, find a LibGen mirror. They are sketchy AF with popups so I won't link here, but I found the entirety of Paper Girls in multiple editions/languages.

I’m quoted in today’s issue of Forbes.

If you’re into this page you’ll definitely want to check out the whole book! Launching in a few weeks, if we hit 250+ people signed up I’ll drop some new pages

I'll be tabling at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social at table L12 with a new Ants comic. I'll have limited copies that weekend along with previous releases. I'll also have a digital version up to purchase soon as well on Patreon (and Gumroad). My friend @causleyconcepts.bsky.social will be there too!

Jack Kirby, born on August 28, 1917. The King.

Usagi commission #wip

Comics pros and pundits, there’s a ARC for Death To Pachuco #1! Dm if you want to read it and give me and @ohhhaeee.bsky.social a shout out!

*CLANGING A LOUD BELL* yall better get this Kickstarter across the line. 24 hours left!!! 🔔

Sale ends at midnight on the west coast. Still some time left to make a good decision.

Some art from Plus Man & The Roadkill, a new comic I’ll be running on my Patreon starting next month. It’s an all ages trucker story about revenge in the Deep South. I’ll be self publishing this, so any amount of support helps. Subscriptions/reposts are greatly appreciated. Patreon.com/bensears

"...Cool drawing, immediate and spontaneous inks, pure design and experimental storytelling. Jesse Lonergan’s Faster hits all the apexes.” Thank you @nickdragotta.bsky.social for the kind words about Faster by @jesselonergan.bsky.social! Back it today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...

"(Barajas & @ohhhaeee.bsky.social) are broadening our shared horizon by focusing on a chunk of American history that's ugly, fascinating, and still resonant eighty years later." - @iamdavidbrothers.com (Time Waits, Good Devils) Spread the word: Death to Pachuco #1 hits shops October 8th!

Out today in the finest comic shops around the world - for the low low price of $10 you can have your own compact edition of DC The New Frontier! This is a perfect loaner so you don’t have to let people borrow your absolute edition. Colours by Dave Stewart and Letters by @jaredkfletcher.bsky.social

Razar, Richard Corben’s first human hero, debuted in Fantagor #1 (left) and was reprinted in Fantagor #5 (middle). Unfortunately, both printings were of very poor quality. Now, with access to the original art (right), I have a superb source for an upcoming volume of the Richard Corben Library.

ICYMI over the weekend

We (retroactively) think of the "golden age" of comics as the golden age of *superhero* comics, but what people were actually reading and buying during this period was largely "funny animals", humor (Little Lulu, etc.), westerns, and licensed TV/movie stuff. Look at them Dell sales numbers!

Rowlf and Other Fantasy Stories is available now wherever you buy books! Grab your copy: bit.ly/4d2P4M7 This release includes a new introduction by Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki, a postface by project art director José Villarrubia, and much more. By award-winning artist Richard Corben

oh my god they actually did it

BLADE