Comics done by the community
With their episodic, crisis-of-the-week approach to storytelling, you’d think that comic books would have found their natural visual media outlet in television, rather than in the numerous film adaptations which continue to net big bucks for major publishers like Marvel and DC. The wealth of elaborate backstory and character development in most long-running comics can […]
Under Judgement: The Case of Dredd 3D vs. Judge Dredd Pitting the recent Dredd 3D against the 90s flop Judge Dredd seems unfair, like allowing an F-22 Raptor to go into battle against a Sopwith Camel. One is a high-tech, modern creation with generations of technological development over its rival. The other is made up […]
Axe Cop It all started with two brothers messing around one day; they came up with idea of a cop who fights crime, with, you guessed it it, his axe. Oh, sorry, I should also mention; the two brothers are called Ethan and Malachai Nicolle. Ethan was twenty-nine when all this started, and Malachai […]
Chew Volume 4: Flambé by John Layman & Rob Guillory is out September 2011. Kate West: So first off, I would like to ask a bit about Chew’s central character; Tony Chu. To me Tony’s ‘cibopathic’ abilities are central to the great dark sense of humour running through the comic. Who came up with […]
Above: Ryan Thomason, aged 396 months, approx. Ryan Thomason is a bookseller by day, a father, and a freelance illustrator. He is the creator of Zombie Kitty and Pizza Ninja (coming soon), two comic strips exclusive to the Edinburgh Geekzine newsletter and the Geekzine website. How long have you been an illustrator? Being pretty […]
Hellboy Volume 10: The Crooked Man & Others by Mike Mignola & Richard Cohen (Dark Horse Comics, PB £14.99, out now) This latest collection sees our hero investigating witchcraft in the Appalachian backwoods. He teams up with returning wanderer Tom Ferrell, a native lad whose head was turned at 15 by local witch Effie Kobb; […]