As an admitted fantasy nerd, and a big fan of Four Star Studio's pevious "DoubleFeature' books, I had high hopes for "Fantasy DoubleFeature." It could be the case that the biggest downside to cheap-but-shorter comics that they leave you wanting more.
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Tim Pennington, a really creative artist with whom we spoke a while ago, recently had a career moment, of sorts. A painting of his was pulled from the walls of Blackbird Espresso in Topeka, KS. Tim opened up about this experience, and what else he's been up to since we last spoke.
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By developing a proper marketing plan for your organization, you take the first step towards ensuring a prosperous future for your company. Here are some marketing basics for those of us not in the know.
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Summit City Comic Con, year two! Check out "Caaats," "The Troll and Giant," "Curmudgeon--The Art of Dave Wachter," and more!
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Green Lantern is the kind of superhero that could never feasibly have been rendered without digital effects. But should it have been rendered at all? Or is it more worthy than most of the reviews are making it out to be?
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Leslie Stein took advantage of a temporary artist's block to chat about her recently published book from Fantagraphics, 'Eye of the Majestic Creature.'
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Dan Johnson's The Perplexing Problem of the Porcelain Bandits is a compelling mystery unmistakably set in San Francisco. As the business of publishing itself has proven rather "perplexing" lately, we sought Dan's opinions not only on the creative process, but on the publishing process in the e-book age.
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While Marilu did her laps in the snow globe, I was having an episode. My heart was beating so hard, it felt like it was punching itself into my arm. I only had a few Nitro tablets left and I didn't want to waste them if I didn't have to. (FICTION)
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The inevitable sequel to the crass comedy hit 'The Hangover: Part II' brings back Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis, the bachelor party trio from hell. But it’s just not clicking this time around.
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In April, Four Star Studios launched its first 99-cent digital comic, Action Double Feature. Recently, the second issue, Horror DoubleFeature, came to market.
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The problems with stevia-based sodas, aside from most of them tasting like stevia, is that not enough companies make them! Thankfully Virgil’s, a maker of wonderful sodas, has a small selection of stevia-sweetened sodas under the “Zero” label. How do they stack up?
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What gives a story legs? The question of why some mainstream media stories last a week or longer in newspapers and on television, while others fizzle like a dud firework, is one that journalism students and the general public struggle to answer.
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