Graphic Novels and Comics

DC Comics Writer and Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns Explains the Comic Books That Inspired Him

Have you walked around a comic book store or convention and wondered why so many people are wearing Green Lantern t-shirts? Geoff Johns might have something to do with that. The comic book writer helmed the series for nine years. He reintroduced Hal Jordan as the famed superhero with Green Lantern: ... More >>

Stories From His Life

WonderCon's Hip-Hop and Comics Event Might Be the Best Convention Panel We've Ever Seen

In Nineteen Eighty Five, the comic book series by James Reitano, a group of teens come of age as hip-hop hits Santa Cruz. Their lives are shaped by the a then-budding youth culture revolving around DJs, MCs, street artists and break dancers. Technically, the story is fiction, but it's inspired by Re ... More >>

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YouTube Wars: Readers Weigh In

Axe Cop, a Comic Book Character Created By a 5-Year-Old, Gets a Fox TV Show

You know who never gets writer's block? Five-year-olds. Probably the only reason they aren't all prolific novelists is they don't have the patience or know-how to do the typing. Lucky for 5-year-old Malachai Nicolle, he's got his 29-year-old comic illustrator brother, Ethan, to sketch his imaginin ... More >>

Cursed Pirate Girl: Jeremy Bastian's Gorgeous Comic Book Began Life on 26 Feet of Computer Paper

See also: *Archaia Brings 'Lost' Jim Henson Screenplay to Life with A Tale of Sand *More Comic Books coverage at L.A. Weekly It's easy to get lost inside the pages of Jeremy A. Bastian's comic book Cursed Pirate Girl. The Michigan-based artist works with ink and a very fine brush to create panels ... More >>

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Bent Con

InvaderCon II: DOOMCON: Animated Series Invader ZIM Was Canceled a Decade Ago, But Fans Still Want to Bring It Back

It's Saturday afternoon and nearly 1,000 people are at the Torrance Marriott South Bay celebrating a cartoon that was canceled ten years ago. Fans of Invader ZIM, the short-lived, sci-fi animated series from famed comic book creator Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee) have traveled f ... More >>

Womanthology: Gender Is the Least Interesting Thing About This All-Female Comics Anthology

Last summer, Womanthology was big news across the comic book scene, back when the mega-anthology featuring an all female team of creators was only a concept, the brainchild of comic book artist Renae De Liz, inspired by a tweet from Jessica Hickman, who became one of the book's editors. The Kickstar ... More >>

Arjun Neuman and Kestrel Burley

Food Review or Calvin and Hobbes?

In our first food quiz, we pulled a few quotes from various food reviews, mixed them with choice bon mots courtesy one of the great wits of our time, Dorothy Parker, and asked whether you could identify who said what. In today's quiz, we swap Parker out for Bill Watterson, the cartoonist who create ... More >>

Kevin Eastman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Co-Creator, Takes Over Meltdown Comics for 35 Days

Liz OhanesianKevin Eastman inside his Meltdown Comics studio, which features lots of goodies from Eastman's studio that will be sold by auction. ​There has been a lot of activity in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle world lately. Last summer at San Diego Comic-Con, Nickelodeon announced that a n ... More >>

Bent-Con: Bringing LGBTQ Comics and Genre Entertainment to Los Angeles

Liz OhanesianSean Holman runs Bent-Con.​"Bent-Con started out of a desire of a bunch of a queer geeks who were tired of going to cons and being the niche within the niche within the niche," says Sean Holman, who organizes the convention that took place at Downtown's Bonaventure Hotel last week ... More >>

Bunraku Review

San Diego Comic-Con Announces Thursday July 21 Schedule: Bruce Campbell, Yoshiki, Stan Lee, Mike Judge and More

Shannon CottrellYoshiki and Stan Lee will appear together at San Diego Comic-Con on July 21​We're two weeks away from San Diego Comic-Con and now the panel schedule for Thursday, July 21 is online. You know what that means. It's time to start preparing. Check out the full schedule on SDCC's w ... More >>

Tom Neely's The Wolf: New 'Painted Novel' About Wolf-On-Human Romance is 'A Love Song to My Wife'

Courtesy of Tom Neely​ L.A. cartoonist Tom Neely is perhaps best known for his role as founding father of Igloo Tornado, the crazy comic collective who published the hilarious mini comic Henry Glenn Forever, which reimagined the friendship between hardcore punk musicians Henry Rollins and Gl ... More >>

Heroes & Villains, Tatiana Wills and Roman Cho's New Book of Badass Photos of Street Artists, Graphic Novelists, and Everyone in Between

Wills/ChoNatalia Fabia, painter​ Check out our slideshow of photos from the book: "Heroes & Villains: Los Angeles Painters, Street Artists and Graphic Novelists" In looking at the portraiture that encompasses the sublime new coffee table book Heroes & Villains by Tatiana Wills and Roman Ch ... More >>

The Cliterati

Barely Literate

Team Unicorn: Sexy and Geeky Girls, They Do Exist!

The tagline on the Team Unicorn Facebook page pretty much sums it up: 'Geek Girls: Like unicorns, we're not supposed to exist.' Rileah Vanderbilt, Clare Grant, Milynn Sarley and Michele Boyd are beautiful and talented women who are also proud to be nerds! Their first video, "G33K and G4M3R GIRLS", ... More >>

Adventures: The Journey of DC Comics

Diving Normal

Thomas Jane, Star of Hung and Director of Dark Country, on 3-D and Comic Books

Thomas Jane, star of HBO's series Hung, is a proponent of 3-D films. He made his directorial debut with Dark Country, a 3-D effort, and is hosting this weekend's 3D Film Festival at The Los Angeles Film School. His introduction to the technology, though, didn't come through film so much as it did th ... More >>

Adam Jones of Tool Launches New Comic Book Series, Selected as Featured Artist for Alternative Press Magazine's 25th Anniversary Exhibit

http://cosm.typepad.comAdam Jones holds his bronze sculpture​Many know Adam Jones from Tool as one of the world's greatest guitarists, however the L.A.-based musician also has an unrelenting passion for visual arts that spans his entire life. From finding refuge in comic books as a child, to a ... More >>

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Indian Art Exhibit

A Marvel-ous Deal for Mickey

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R. Crumb Retrospective at Cal State Fullerton

The Holy Grail of Gaming: $17,500 for the World's Most Collectible Game Cartridge...And That's the Cheap Price

Would you spend $17,500 on a video game? An old video game? This guy did. He bought a gold (painted) Nintendo World Championships cartridge. It is considered "The Holy Grail of Gaming" to collectors of video games. JJ Hendricks bought the thing on eBay. It was listed for $25,000 so it seems he got ... More >>

Life Is Too Short to NOT Be a Disappointment to Your Parents

Art Brut Plays Spaceland Tonight, The Echo on Friday

Art Brut is a band that goes where few will, taking the things that you might be too embarrassed to think, let alone admit, and putting them into wry, punky tunes. They are the band you need to see when you're looking for more self-deprecation than you thought could be packed in two and a half minut ... More >>

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Jewish Boys and Comic Books: Zap! Pow! Bam! The Golden Age of Comic Books at the Skirball

View more photos of superhero and comic book rarities in the "Golden Age of Comics" slideshow. There is a pretty amazing collection at the Skirball Cultural Center's new exhibit "Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950." Some stuff on display just blew my mind, like ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Prince Performs Post-Oscars Party, Golden Age of Comic Books Exhibit, Mindshare LA, Mardi Gras at Farmers Market, The Game at Club Nokia

Academy Awards weekend in L.A. is madness so rather than exhaust ourselves party hopping the typical Oscar bashes, L.A. Weekly opted to check out what the rest the city had to offer. We indulged our inner geek at Skirball Cultural Center's new exhibit "Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of ... More >>

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Comedy Meltdown IV: The Quest for Peace

Such a Nice Young Man

Super, even

Portals to Other Worlds

L.A.’s comic book stores: A driving guide

Midnight Cowboy

Marvel Comics' Rawhide Kid comes out of the closet

Study from 3-Part DK2

Two-Fisted Truth

Harvey Kurtzman and the birth of Cold War comics

Seduction of the Degenerate

Rebel Visions and the underground-comics revolution

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