It’s easy to compile a list of things we love about comics, it’s easy because we love them.  There’s an undefined, miscellaneous feeling  involved in reading comics… an x-factor.  It feels cool somehow, as if there’s an unexplainable ‘comics-force’ available to tap into...

The big draw for me at Montreal Comiccon 2011 was the bandes desinee artists that would be attending the show.  I’ve been reading a lot of translated European material and was hoping to pick up some original art. Overall it was a small creator space, two rows of tables and a few more at...

On May 5th 2011 Heritage Auctions sold the original art from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns issue three page ten for $448125.  That’s right, just shy of half a million dollars for a piece of comic book art. Recorded as the highest price ever paid for original comic art, including...

Art is what makes a comic book a comic book. Without it, we would just have a bunch of words in a script and in which case we might as well read a book. All of us have our favourite comic book artists for various reasons. I’m sure many of us can intuitively recognize a comic artist’s style...

Rob Granito is having a rough week. The picture on the right is now being used on Facebook profile pages. Starting last Thursday, Bleeding Cool published a story about a guy named Rob Granito, comic artist. So why the story? Well, it turns out, although he may be an artist, he isn’t the...

Welcome to another installment of Pick Five, where one of our writers picks five of whatever comic related “fill in the blank” that tickles their fancy. One of my favourite artists of all time is Paul Smith.  He had an amazing and short run on Uncanny X-Men and Doctor Strange for...

During a flip through Previews a few months back I noticed a solicitation for The Marvel Art Of Joe Quesada: 240 pages dedicated to Quesada’s work at Marvel.  Since all his early work that I enjoyed happened at DC with The Ray and Azrael I skipped it, but a big discount brought the book...