Available in English for the very first time (the original French edition, published by Gallimard in 2011, sold 25.000 copies in the first 2 months of its release), In the Kitchen with Alain Passard by Christophe Blain is the first…
Amanda Cohen does not play by the rules. Since opening her restaurant in the East Village in 2008, she has been waging war on the “eat your vegetables” mind-set. While all her dishes are vegetarian (and nearly all can be…
Anthony Bourdain has been a writer for some time now, but normally his books are focused around one of two subjects: food or crime. So you can't be all that shocked that he decided to combine the two in "Get…
How does he make Gotham a better place by not killing any of the super villains that keep on escaping? As there are many Batman stories written by different authors over different media with wildly different personalities, specifying which particular…
My six-year-old nephew's favorite things are superheroes, the color pink, and "dressing fancy," so when I heard about The Hub's new hero cartoon, SheZow, my interest was fully piqued. At first, I read that SheZow is a transgender pre-teen. And…
Don Kenn Mortensen, sometimes known as John Kenn (b. 1978), is a director and creator of television shows for kids, from Denmark. He has an interesting hobby: in his spare time, he draws monsters on post-it notes. “It is a…
San Francisco-based artist Robert X. Burden paints large-scale, intricate representations of small, plastic figurines from his childhood. Some pieces also contain the actual toy or a taxidermied animal that relates to the work, in the same fashion that a Catholic…
Anything That Loves is a Northwest Press anthology to be released this July, just in time for Comic-Con in San Diego, and featuring a variety of wonderful artists exploring the seldom-seen world between “gay” and “straight”. Zan Christensen, the anthology’s…
Superman is a good guy. More than that, Superman is the best guy. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster in 1932, he's the archetypal superhero, a man of enormous power who places himself in service to the…
With The Dark Knight Rises bringing writer-director Christopher Nolan’s Batman film trilogy to a close, fans who know the comic book stories wonder and worry about what the film’s criminals will inflict upon the Caped Crusader. Will Bane break Batman’s…
We always catch superheroes doing cool stuff like flying, running real fast, or beating up on bad guys. We don’t really get to see the normal, regular-people type stuff like teeth brushing, taco eating or bathroom pooping. There’s stuff that…
James Stokoe (born September 4, 1985) is a self-taught Canadian comic writer/author, one of the more enigmatic creators of recent years. He is best known for his work on the critically acclaimed series "Orc Stain" from Image Comics and "Wonton…
You might not think a desk jockey consuming cups of coffee and ranting about deadlines could be as entertaining as the Avengers, but you’d be dead wrong. Marvel Comics The Untold Story is about the men behind some of the…
Dan Hipp is an American cartoonist whose graphic novels include the epic revenge series GYAKUSHU!, as well as the super-natural, rock, adventure series THE AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS, both of which have been translated and published in other countries. His work…
Southern California-based artist José Ladrönn is a freelance illustrator born in Veracruz, Mexico. He is probably best known for his 3 years stint doing interior work on Cable. Ladrönn is a talented visual storyteller, as evident by his rather expressive covers.…
Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg, born in 1917) is one of the most important and influential artists in the history of U.S. comic books and popular culture. Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in…
Looking back, it makes perfect sense that Alex Ross would become one of the world’s most pre-eminent and well-respected comic book artists. It’s a job he’s been preparing for nearly all his life. Born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in…
During Lucca Comics 2011, the most important Italian comics fair, two emerging indipendent authors, Davide La Rosa and Vanessa Cardinali, presented “Zombie Gay in Vaticano" (Gay Zombies in the Vatican), a self-produced one-shot that was immediately sold out. Gay Zombie…
It’s hard to try and describe Gaylord Phoenix, Edie Fake’s collection of mini-comics of the same name. Mythological journey? Beat poetry in a visual format? Stream of consciousness? Explosion of sexuality? It’s all and none of those, and while it’s…
For the release of the movie The Dark Knight Rises, UD Replicas has created a motorcycle suit that lets you look like Batman while you ride on your bike. The ‘Batman Movie Replica Leather Motorcycle Suit’ features details and designs…