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- Oct 31, 2018
- 3 min
Horrors! The Life and Death of Matt Groening’s Best Simpsons Comic Book
Don’t have a cow, man, but Bongo, the Eisner Award-winning publisher of Simpsons comic books for nearly a quarter-century, died this month. Yes, the Matt Groening line – the one that once brought you Sergio Aragonés’s Funnies and a Zongo imprint that put out Gary Panter’s Jimbo and Mary Fleener’s Fleener – has ceased publication. And if you’re a designer whose first and foremost priority for comics is their visual appeal, you might give your shoulders a simple “whatever” shru
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- Oct 9, 2018
- 3 min
Fear and Hunger in Japan: On Anthony Bourdain’s Last Graphic Novel
By Michael Dooley Although Anthony Bourdain died before the release of Hungry Ghosts, he did review and approve the design of the last of his three graphic novels. That’s right: “graphic novels.” This acclaimed writer, chef, and TV host wasn’t only obsessed with cooking. Once an aspiring comics artist, Bourdain also had a passion for the medium in its myriad forms. He loved and collected adventure newspaper strips Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates and Will Eisner’s The Sp
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- May 28, 2018
- 4 min
Beyond Black Panther: A Celebration of Black Comix Creators
Black Panther the movie has just been released on 4K Ultra HD. Marvel’s new Black Panther: World of Wakanda spin-off series from Marvel just scored this year’s GLAAD Media Outstanding Comic Book Award. And here in real life, multitudes of conventions and exhibitions nationwide are honoring the talents and accomplishments of black comics creators. If you attended the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAM Black Comix Expo, the Black Comic Book Festival at Harlem’s Schomburg Center, a
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- Oct 31, 2017
- 2 min
Vintage Horror Books From Hell with Grady Hendrix
FINAL EXTENDED DEADLINE: Logo Design Awards It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Halloween of course. Who doesn’t like a good scare every once in a while? Not to mention the beautiful tradition of Samhain, welcoming the darker half of the year and celebrating the end of the Harvest season. This year I’m celebrating with some delicious pumpkin beer and reading from one of my newest favorites, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction (Quirk
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- Oct 27, 2017
- 2 min
17 Vintage & Modern Frankenstein Cover Designs
Call for entries: HOW Logo Design Awards The last Friday in October is known to some as Frankenstein Friday—a chance to celebrate Mary Shelley’s creation, as well as Dr. Frankenstein’s. A favorite among horror enthusiasts, Frankenstein was originally published in 1818. In its nearly 200 years of life, the work has seen its fair share of adaptations, from plays to movies and comics to graphic novels. Take a journey through time with these 17 cover designs for the classic novel
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- Jun 28, 2017
- 3 min
Steve Ditko’s Midcentury Comics Art: Stranger Than Doctor Strange
Okay, so Wonder Woman’s CGI can probably beat up Doctor Strange’s. Still, Strange’s spirited, Academy Award-nominated effects easily outshone Benedict Cumberbatch’s less-than-magical performance, still memorable six months after its release. And we should also remember that ILM and Strange‘s other effects studios owe an inspirational debt to Marvel’s dazzling Steve Ditko. It was Ditko who first gave artistic form to the Sorcerer Supreme and his kaleidoscopic inter-dimensional
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- Mar 10, 2014
- 3 min
The Winter Brothers v. DC Comics: Parody and Monsters
Censorship of printed material just keeps on coming. Even as “Sex and Design,” Print’s February issue that included my 12-page feature about banning comic books, was at the printer Apple Inc. was rejecting Image Comics’ acclaimed Sex Criminals from in-app purchase. This brought the computer giant’s 2013 list of forbidden comics to nearly 60. It also hurt digital sales. And since the corporation provided hardly any explanation Image, and the creators Matt Fraction and Chip Zda
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- Feb 21, 2014
- 3 min
Hooray for Twisted, Filthy, Disgusting Comic Books!
When Imprint began back in 2010, my first contribution was an interview with the entrepreneurial Craig Yoe, in which he wondered whether cartoonists these days ever get laid. Yoe is a cartoonist himself, as well as a designer, historian and publisher of popular comic art books. His catalog line ranges from Archie and Veronica, Felix the Cat, and other childrens’ fare to nudity, graphic sex and fetish illustrations by well-known comic book artists. Oh, and during that talk, he
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- Dec 7, 2012
- 4 min
From Classroom Doodler to Funny-Picture Publisher: Craig Yoe's Cartoon Evolution
I figured that this time, my encounter with Craig Yoe wouldn’t involve sex. But no, he just had to go slip in his Penis at the end. Yoe is a cartoonist, an author, a designer, and a historian, and the man behind IDW Publishing’s Yoe Books, a one-stop shop for visual thrills about comics and pop culture. And since our 2010 Imprint Q&A covered his books on dirty drawings by “clean” cartoonists and fetish illustrations by Superman’s original comics artist, we naturally hit on to
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- Oct 31, 2012
- 5 min
Comics/FX Artist on Gore Garters, Sequential Paintings, and the Benefits of Taste Over Skill
Meaghan O’Keefe is among her people. She’s in a comics shop in Burbank, California, at a release party for her first graphic novel, a dark terror tale titled Identity Thief, written by Bryant Dillon. Most of the crowd are wearing goth black. A few are sporting Mohawks, including her boyfriend, Robert Burrows. Burrows illustrated Something Animal, another graphic novel, co-written by Dillon and Sam Rhodes. Both books deal with psychological disturbances and twisted transformat
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