[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 [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Carrie Cuinn is an author, editor, bibliophile, modernist, and geek. She writes speculative fiction – including science fiction and apocalypse stories and magic realism and [...]
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 [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]