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Luke Arnold and Doc Wyatt on Writing Their New Comic “Essentials”

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Essentals cover by Jason Howard

Crowdfunding is currently underway for The Essentials, a new graphic novel from writers Luke Arnold and Doc Wyatt and a staggeringly good selection of artists. Arnold is best-known for his work as an actor — notably on Black Sails and Glitch — but he’s expanded his purview into writing in recent years, and Wyatt has an extensive list of credits in both comics and television.

As for the art? Well, there’s a preview below featuring some of Jason Howard’s work on the book; you might know him from Big Girls, The Vallars, or Trees. Also contributing to Essentials are DaNi, Glenn Fabry, Vince Locke, Brendan McCarthy, Andrea Mutti, M.K. Perker, and Bill Sienkiewicz.

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The Right Amount Of Comedic Grit: An Interview With Luke Burns

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Luke Burns

Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk Rampage, the graphic novel by the French artist Pierre La Police, is a colorful, bizarre, hysterically funny book that will delight fans of Brad Neely and Michael Kupperman. The insane plot, which unfurls at a methodical pace of one panel per page, concerns a wave of violent antediluvian mollusks and the trio of furrowed-brow mutants—the twins Chris and Montgomery Themistecles, and their buddy Fongor—who set out to stop them (or not). The Masters of the Nefarious comic originally ran in the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles from 1994 to 1996, before being collected into three French-language volumes over the past several years.

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Inside Craig Yoe’s Surreal Graphic Novel “Woman & Man+”

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Craig Yoe cover art

Artist and publisher Craig Yoe has had a long career in comics and media — one that’s overlapped with everyone from Jim Henson to Steve Ditko over the years, as this interview in Scoop makes clear. His new project is an autobiographical one: the graphic novel Woman & Man+, for which Clover Press is running a crowdfunding campaign. We’re pleased to present an excerpt from the book featuring some of Yoe’s phantasmagorical imagery and unique storytelling approach.

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Adapting Barry Gifford’s “Night People” Into Comics

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Joelle Jones cover for "Night People" #1

It’s been over 30 years since the publication of Barry Gifford’s novel Night People — a book which David Lynch once optioned for film, which ultimately led to their collaboration on Lost Highway. This year will see Gifford’s novel adapted into a very different medium. A collaboration with co-writer Chris Condon and artist Brian Level, the first issue — from publisher Oni Press — will be in stores on March 6. Among the artists contributing covers to the project are J.H. Williams III, Joëlle Jones, and Jacob Phillips.

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When Comics and Prose Collide: An Excerpt From Dave Baker’s “Mary Tyler MooreHawk”

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Mary Tyler MooreHawk cover

It’s unlike that you’ve ever read a graphic novel quite like Dave Baker’s Mary Tyler MooreHawk before. This sprawling adventure tale is both a heady pulp adventure and a formally inventive work with more layers than you’d expect. (It would fit comfortably beside the work of James Stokoe and Tom Scioli on your shelves.) We’re pleased to present an excerpt from the book, along with Baker’s thoughts on making prose and comics work in harmony.

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Is “The Devil’s Cut” a Bargain Worth Accepting?

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"The Devil's Cut" cover

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: there’s this new comic book publisher, and they’re making a splashy debut with a new line of comics. There’s been a bit of that this year, but right now I’m here to talk about the new press DSTLRY and their recent anthology The Devil’s Cut, which features an impressive array of writers and artists, including the people behind several of my favorite comics of the last five years.

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