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The Superstar Artist Of The Wicked + The Divine Soars Into Deep Space With The Killing Horizon
Jamie McKelvie is one of those guys. Your favourite comics artist’s favourite comics artist, a status cemented by the just-ended five-year marathon spent as the draftsman on award-winning pop music super-drama The Wicked + The Divine. For his next trick, he’s going full cartoonist, writing and drawing an all-new sci-fi series and he told Kotaku…
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14 Years Ago, Matador Painted A Surprising Serial Killer Story In A Rainbow Of Colour
Whether it’s superheroes, historical fiction, or survival horror, you can tell any kind of story in comics. More importantly, because comics require freezing specific moments in time, creators can play with expectations from moment to moment. Matador — by Devin Grayson and Brian Stelfreeze — does that exceedingly well, focusing on a police detective whose…
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A New Graphic Novel Explores How Racism Made Weed Illegal
For the last few years, a wave of legislation has been decriminalising the recreational use of marijuana all across the United States. Cannabis advocates have long said that it should never have been illegal. The story of how the substance became outlawed in the first place combines willful ignorance, petty careerism, and good old-fashioned racial…
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Why Norm Breyfogle Was One Of The Best Artists To Ever Draw Batman
The best Batman artists always do something cool with the Dark Knight’s cape. It’s a given. Norm Breyfogle did that and so much more, re-inventing almost every visual aspect of Batman’s mythos.