Murders, revenge, and a Frankensteinian twist! I talked to Paul Tobin about his exciting new comic series Made Men with artist Arjuna Susini and colourist Gonzalo Duarte! Mexi Gremillion: Why Frankenstein? What drew you to be inspired by that specific gothic tale? What brought you to creating a story around it? Paul Tobin: It’s always…
Interview: Julie and Shawna Benson Hit BIRDS OF PREY with Manslaughter
Batgirl and the Birds of Prey have been mighty busy the last few months. They learned the secrets behind their new “Oracle” Gus. They encountered one of their classic rogues. And they added two new members — two of the three Gotham City Sirens: Catwoman and Poison Ivy. And they’re not stopping there. This October,…
Interview: Scott Snyder Brings the METAL to the DC Universe
Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, and FCO Plascencia need no introduction…this is the team that ushered in a new generation of readers to Gotham City and their run on Batman that changed the character and added wrinkles to his mythos that are still used today in the DC Rebirth landscape. The dream team has…
Interview: Nilah Magruder Brings M.F.K. to a Brand New Audience
Nilah Magruder is a writer, artist, and animator. She was awarded the inaugural Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity for the first chapter of her webcomic, M.F.K, and the first Black woman to write for Marvel Comics in A Year of Marvels, available here. Now, M.F.K. chapters 1-3 are due to be published in a print…
Interview: Girner & Galaad Take On Fantasy With SCALES & SCOUNDRELS
Sebastian Girner and Galaad are ready to take you to a world far away…a world filled with Scales & Scoundrels! This September, the pair will kick off a new all-ages ongoing series featuring a heroine with a grand dose of attitude and some kick-ass fighting skills to boot. Girner and Galaad recently gave me the…
Interview: Katie O’Neill and THE TEA DRAGON SOCIETY
Following the success of Princess Princess Ever After, writer and illustrator Katie O’Neill is once again teaming up with Oni Press to release The Tea Dragon Society, a completely charming all ages graphic novel. Taking some time from her busy schedule, Katie has been kind enough to talk with us at Comicosity about the book…
Interview: Greg Pak Talks Giant Robots and MECH CADET YU
Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa are frequent collaborators and responsible for the creation of everyone’s favourite Hulk, Amadeus Cho. The two are working together on a new project from BOOM! Studios called Mech Cadet Yu, which I was lucky enough to get the dirt about from Greg Pak himself… Aaron Long: This isn’t your first project…
Interview: CAPTAIN PHASMA’S Journey with Kelly Thompson
With Star Wars: The Last Jedi coming out this holiday season, fans are getting a chance to learn more about their favorite sequel characters. On the comics front, superstar writer Kelly Thompson (A-Force, Hawkeye) is getting a chance, along with artist Marco Checchetto, to show fans just how First Order badass Captain Phasma escaped from the…
Interview: Charretier and Colinet Return to THE INFINITE LOOP
Usually, the return of a beloved series, like Elsa Charretier and Pierrick Colinet’s The Infinite Loop, a crowd funding darling and beautifully imaginative sci-fi call for solidarity with and among the marginalized, would be cause for major celebration but there’s a bittersweet quality to the occasion. Since the first volume debuted in 2015, projecting a…
Queer Visibility Interview: Trungles Brings FAUNS AND FAIRIES to Life
After getting to chat with Meredith McClaren about her upcoming graphic novel Super Fun Sexy Times recently, I was left with an itch to find more creators to discuss sex and queer themes in comics from a positive, personal perspective digging into how their queerness impacts their work. Luckily, I was able to catch up…