MIND MELD: The Growth and Future of SF/F
Today, our Mind Melders discuss the growth and future of SFF [...]
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MIND MELD: Webcomics You Should Be Reading Right Now
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Be it stand alone comics or an ongoing storyline, everyone enjoys a good webcomic. But I need some new ones to [...]
MIND MELD: Our Non-Writer Influences
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] We asked this week’s panelists about their influences outside of the literary world. Q: Who are your [...]
Table of Contents: Lakeside Circus #1 Edited by Carrie Cuinn
Here is the table of contents for the premiere issue of Lakeside [...]
Our Valued Customers: A Single-Panel Webcomic That Knows More About Geek Culture Than You Do
Today we’re going to branch out from SFF comics and talk about a Boston-based artist who chronicles fans of mainstream SFF comics, movies, and TV shows with his black and [...]
Dagan Books 3-for-2 Ebook Bundle Sale!
To celebrate the release of Bibliotheca Fantastica (out today) Dagan Books is offering a 3-for-2 ebook bundle of their previous anthologies. For only $8.98, you can get [...]
TOC: ‘Women and Other Constructs’ by Carrie Cuinn
Carrie Cuinn has posted the table of contents for her new collection Women and Other Constructs: Says Carrie: I’ve put together my first short fiction collection. It’s [...]
[Outside the Frame] Re-reading An Old Favorite: Sam Kieth’s THE MAXX
We’re going to slip, just a little, into mainstream territory, and talk about one of my favorite comics from the early 1990s: The Maxx, created by Sam Kieth. In 1993, I [...]
[Outside the Frame] Indies at the Eisner Awards
Now in its 25th year, the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have announced their nominations for 2013. Voting is still open to industry professionals, and the winners will be [...]
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Carrie Cuinn on “Fish”
Carrie Cuinn is an author, editor, bibliophile, modernist, and geek. She writes speculative fiction – including science fiction and apocalypse stories and magic realism and [...]
[Outside the Frame] Tony Millionaire’s Wacky Genius is on Display in “Billy Hazelnuts”
Tony Millionaire’s Billy Hazelnuts is a child-like fantasy, at once impossible but also intricately detailed. The story focuses on the love triangle between two [...]
[Outside the Frame] Richard S. Carbonneau’s “The Marvel: A Biography of Jack Parsons” Illustrates Failure
This well-designed collected edition of Carbonneau and Ng’s webcomic about the life of occultist Jack Parsons looks like a magical grimoire the book’s subject would have [...]
MIND MELD: Books You Eat Like Candy & Books You Savor
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Many readers have different gears when reading books. Some books are ones in which you luxuriate and spend time [...]
BOOK REVIEW: Fish, Edited by Carrie Cuinn and K.V. Taylor
REVIEW SUMMARY: Another diverse, multi-sided anthology from Dagan Books with an unexpected and unusual subject. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: FISH is an anthology of fiction of [...]
[Outside the Frame] Trese: Supernaturual Noir Komiks Done Right
In 2005, Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo published the first Trese comic. Not a cop, but working with them, Alexandra Trese and her faithful assistants solve the crimes [...]
[Outside the Frame] A Brief History of Independent Comics in the United States, Part 1
When I started this column I talked a little about what independent comics were, but not how we got here. Presently there are two major “mainstream” comics [...]
[Outside the Frame] Strange Attractors by Charles Soule (Archaia)
Archaia Entertainment has a promising new comic on the horizon with Charles Soule’s Strange Attractors. The book is a love letter – partly to New York city, [...]
TOC: ‘FISH’ Edited by Carrie Cuinn & KV Taylor
table of contents for the new anthology FISH, featuring a cool cover by Galen Dara, has been announced. Here’s the book description: What secrets belong only to a fish? [...]
[Outside the Frame] Daniel Clowes’s “The Death Ray” Is More Indie Than Usual
Daniel Clowes is an American cartoonist most well known for his book Ghostworld, which was made into a movie starring Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch, and Art School [...]
[Outside the Frame] Gerry Alanguilan’s “Elmer” – The Greatest Chicken Comic Ever
When I started writing this column, I had a handful of comics I knew wanted to talk about. Stories that had affected me so much I wanted to tell the world about them. Elmer [...]
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