For my final (written) piece from ComicsPRO, I talked to folks like @jazzlynstone.bsky.social, @patrickhorvath.bsky.social, @filipsablik.bsky.social, @capecowlcomics.bsky.social, and more about what's making them the most hopeful about this moment in comics. The results were...honestly quite lovely!
Check out this week's CXF Staff Picks, ft. comics by @ashallen.bsky.social @laurahudson.bsky.social @ssnyder1835.bsky.social @patrickhorvath.bsky.social @jorgejimenezart.bsky.social @jedmackay.bsky.social @ryanstegman.bsky.social @juanferreyra.bsky.social @kyledhiggins.bsky.social and more!
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@patrickhorvath.bsky.social returns for a full spoilers conversation about today's final issue of BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES: RITE OF SPRING, from @idwpublishing.com: www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/beneath...
I think this cover ALSO got revealed for Hello Darkness #20, from Boom Studios. This was a lot of fun hahah.
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Wednesday.
@patrickhorvath.bsky.social joins the podcast for a full-spoilers conversation about BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES: RITE OF SPRING, published by @idwpublishing.com, just in time for that last issue's release.
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a human animal, perhaps, I don' know, a hardware-store owning BEAR who's otherwise fairly nice, holding a blood-drippy blade in one hand, the severed head of a white rabbit in the other. the rabbit looks exceedingly sad about this turn of events. understandable. the bear holding that rabbit is wearing bluejeans and workboots and a plaid shirt, thought I say that with trepidation, as I don't really know where "plaid" stops and other patterns/designs & ways of referring to them start—I don't wear them, so why would I stop to learn such things? anyway, shirt's coming unbuttoned at the BOTTOM, right before the tuck-in, so, I mean, that's all you need to know about who the bad guy here is, yes? YES? also, there's a slowly widening pool of blood. oh, and some words. don't forget the scary-font words: "Beneath the trees where nobody sees Rite of Spring." the exclamation point is implied / very much felt. there's some credits too, movie-poster style, specifically, 1980s movie-poster style, but, man, they're small and blurry, and, though I'm only halfway close to the cap I'm allowed in these alt_texts—I cap you can bet I've felt out before—still, I don't think I have quite what it takes to faithfully reproduce them all, here. but it's names, and attributions. all of which is important. some might say they're even more important than me just going on and on about how I'm not going to enter them here, taking probably eight times as much typing as if I just HAD. but, that fork in the textual road was a while back already. it always was.
poster for Maniac (1980: a killer-dude in jeans and workbooks holding a fairly killer blade (dagger / both sides look to be sharp) in one hand and a human scalp (woman's, blond) in the other, with "I Warned You Not To Go Out Tonight / MANIAC" in scary font over it all. also, there's a puddle of dripping blood. and the dude's shirt's coming unbuttoned at the bottom—THAT'S how you know he's the titular character, here.
headsup that @patrickhorvath.bsky.social's Beneath the Trees: The Rites of Spring #6 from @idwpublishing.com drops Wednesday. You've all read 1 – 5 already, yes? And the first six as well? very much dig all the nods & fun, as, you know, you can see here (not the cover I got, but I should have):
The "this is fine" dog meme comic, but he's saying "so I have a book coming out".
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#InTheStacks at @thirdeyecomics.bsky.social: @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social picks @patrickhorvath.bsky.social's BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES, published by @idwpublishing.com, as one of his favorite modern comics.
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The Beat has a preview up for the final issue. It's in shops March 4
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Joshua Williamson (Superman, Iron Man) enters The Stacks at Third Eye Comics in Annapolis, Maryland. www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/joshua-...
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With a last page shocker that will make STRAY DOGS fans sit, stay, rollover and beg (hint! hint!), you can't afford to miss this issue!
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Last week's annual conference for ComicsPRO, a trade organization for comic retailers, was a massive event, and I wrote about the promise it showed as attending publishers and retailers looked to build on recent successes and the influx of new readers in comic shops.
#InTheStacks at @thirdeyecomics.bsky.social Episode 10!
@joshuawilliamson.bsky.social picks some of his All-Time Favorite Comic Books.
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Always appreciate a writer with a Twilight Zone approach to storytelling. Also, this was a great excuse to talk comic book retail and the state of the industry.
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.
This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.
Chris is doing a state-side signing for the release of Brutal Dark!
For Amy Roy’s story in Cruel Universe 7, I thought it would be fun to gradually change the style of the art as the robot took over the world.
A bunch of original comic book related shirts I've designed over the years. Always looking to sell more--buy some here! soundfxstudio.com
What's that... An oversized hardcover Artist Edition for one of our bestselling graphic novels?!
You can now pre-order Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by @patrickhorvath.bsky.social in this new edition from @okcomics.bsky.social!
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