Making Comics: JIM ZUB’s Tips to Newbies
As part of our continuing collaboration with the MAKING COMICS folks, we’re running pros’ critiques of students’ pitches. Here’s writer Jim Zub:
BATMAN ’66 CONTEST … We Have a Winner!
POW! The winner of our Batman ’66 trivia contest was …
EXCLUSIVE Preview: DEAD LETTERS #3 from Boom!
The latest issue in the noirish book comes out 6/11:
Finally! Bill Finger Gets Credit on a Batman Cover!
So, this is cool: DC today put out the cover for a special giveaway edition of Detective #27. Listed first in the credits? Bob Kane? Second. Bill Finger. Nice.
EXCLUSIVE Preview! HULK #4
The not-so-jolly green giant goes berzerker on an assortment of Avengers!
VARIANTS! Best of the Week!
One of the best places to find good comic art — the variant cover! This week, it’s decidedly DC and Dynamite week, but there are others too!
ADVANCE REVIEW! Original Sin #3 — or, the Internet is About to Rupture!
NO SPOILERS … but brace for fan rage!
WHAT I’M READING, by Alex Segura
The novelist/comics writer/editor/Archie exec gives his recommendations for this week’s column. And they are good ones!
VIDEO: ‘Man and Superman’
Arlen Schumer wraps his lecture series in NYC this week. To whet your Silver Age-y appetite, here’s the video of his most recent lecture, on the Man of Steel:
HOT PICKS: On Sale This Week
A very near clean sweep for Afterlife With Archie … Here’s Mark Waid and the rest of the crew’s picks!
NEW YORK COMIC FEST Spotlight: Panel List!
Snyder! Waid! Steranko! O’Neil! Nocenti! Many, many more! JUNE 14!
EXCLUSIVE ART! Fred Van Lente on Brain Boy and Project Black Sky
Writer Fred Van Lente (who’s a guest at our New York Comic Fest, by the way) talks his new Brain Boy miniseries and his awesomely cool webcomic for Dark Horse’s Project Black Sky. With fancy EXCLUSIVE art!