Angels and Indies

September 8th, 2010

The two biggest publishers I cover had a bit of an unusual crossover when it was recently announced (accidentally) that the “Angel” comics (of “Buffy and Angel” fame) would be moving from IDW Publishing to Dark Horse late next year. So I got to cover that. And some other stuff.

The Future of “Angel”

Tischman & Huehner on “Angel’s” Finale

Kim Thompson on Translating Manara

Brill on “Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers”

Bryan Talbot’s “Grandville Mon Amour”

Jason’s “Werewolves of Montpellier”

Also working a lot on scripts, especially Macbeth but also some other ideas that have cropped up. One is a parody of several nursery rhymes, one is a parody of a well-known DC Comics character done using a bunch of nursery rhymes. Possibly this is because my daughter just turned one. Happy birthday Lila!

Post-San Diego Update

August 3rd, 2010

The madness of San Diego Comic-Con International is complete! Had some good meetings about my Macbeth story and covered a slew of panels. Here are few highlights since the last update:

IDW on “Bone” for PSP and More

Felicia Day’s “The Guild” Plays Solo

Andy Schmidt’s “5 Days to Die”

CCI: Mark Waid on Stan Lee’s “Traveler”

CCI: DC Nation

Oh, and here’s a sample of my Macbeth project with Anna.

Hatter M: Siberia

June 15th, 2010

My second Looking Glass Wars: Hatter M web comic is up:

Hatter M: Siberia

This story is set in the universe of Frank Beddor’s Looking Glass Wars.

Hatter M: Bohemia

May 21st, 2010

This is a story I wrote for Frank Beddor’s Looking Glass Wars universe. It’s currently a web exclusive, but it should be included in the vol. 3 Hatter M trade paperback. I’ve got another coming, though I’m not sure when it’s due to be published.

“I cannot wait to pee!”

April 23rd, 2010

This is a comic by me, sort of. Anybody can submit dreams to Jesse Reklaw’s “Slow Wave” and, if it’s interesting enough, he’ll do it up as a comic. Oddly, this fit in very well with an “ongoing” dream-adventure he was doing at the time.

"Slow Wave"

For reference, I’m the lady detective. For better or for worse, Jesse did not give the anxious murderess the ‘orrible French accent she had in my dream.

All hail…

April 22nd, 2010

This is an image from a “historical Macbeth” comic I’m trying to put together. Nice, huh?

Macbeth p. 3

Art by Anna Wieszczyk

Post-convention updates

April 21st, 2010

The new Chicago comic convention, C2E2, was last weekend, I got some fun stories and panel coverage out of that. Also got to meet up with some good people I only see a couple times a year. Notable con stories and previous interviews include:

Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson on “Beasts of Burden/Hellboy”

Dave Gibbons on the “Martha Washington” softcover

Three writers on “Predators” movie tie-in comics

Patton Oswalt on “Serenity”

Scott Allie on “Let Me In/Let the Right One In”

Roy Thomas on his return to “Conan”

Neil Gaiman’s reading at C2E2

DC Comics panel at C2E2

Recent CBR articles

January 24th, 2010

Bringing myself up to date a bit…

The Art of Monsters with Guy Davis

Felicia Day’s “Guild” Comes to Comics

Dash Shaw Reveals “The Unclothed Man”

Jackie Kessler Enters The Buffyverse

I’m interviewed by Roanoke Review

December 14th, 2009

My short story “Conversion” appears in this year’s edition of the Roanoke Review, and I am interviewed about the story on their web site:

Good Times with Shaun Manning

PW – Joshua Ferris review and interview

November 17th, 2009

I review PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Joshua Ferris’s new book and interview the author for Publishers Weekly:

Interview

Review of The Unnamed

(Apple-F to find it in the scroll.)