Marjane Satrapi’s incredible work Persepolis focuses on the experiences of a young Marji and her family growing up during the Iranian Revolution. The Revolution caused many changes to the relatively ...
Colleen Doran made her first comic when she was twelve, and she's still writing and drawing it today. A Distant Soil stands apart as a unique project within the comics sphere; an epic longform story ...
As we planned Love and Sex Week here at ComicsAlliance, the idea of a "Hottest Women In Comics" list naturally came up. It's a format that's been nearly ubiquitous since the heyday of Wizard Magazine.
A hero is defined by their villains, and comic books are filled with some of the scariest and silliest bad guys around. Rogues’ Gallery aims to settle the score and determine who is the true ...
Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is one of my favorite novels. It's got a great high concept built around a simple premise, set in a world where Harker, Morris, Holmwood, and Van Helsing fail to stop Dracula ...
He wasn’t a complicated character. He flew around and hits things with his mace. Sometimes he did it alongside Hawkgirl; sometimes he did it as a member of the Justice Society. Then the Silver Age ...
Last time in Superhero Color Theory we explained why our main heroes look the way they do. Now it's time to look at the secondary colors and how they often, but not always, signal the presence of a ...
Take a look at the biggest names in superheroes and you probably realize that you're looking at a sea of red, blue, yellow. There are some greens, whites, blacks, etc, but the most iconic superheroes ...
No other comic artist's legacy is as tough to nail down as that of Dave Sim, born on this day in 1956. As the creator of Cerebus, Sim is one of the medium's biggest champions for creators' rights, a ...
Of all the strange transformations Superman has undergone in his 78-year history, none has been quite so derided as the year where his familiar costume and powers were replaced with a blue and white ...
Despite the success of Aliens at the box office, it wasn't until production on 1992's Alien 3 began that the idea of a cartoon based on the series was broached. Instead of crafting a 22-minute ...
April 19, 1954 is a date that has lived in infamy for comics fans. Originally from Munich, Germany, Wertham worked at New York City's Bellevue Mental Hygiene Clinic and worked closely with the state ...