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This, like any links page, is a work in progress. But I’ve been talking about doing it for far too long, so it is probably better to get a partial and woefully incomplete links page up than nothing.
We very much welcome your suggestions for pages to link to – please e-mail your thoughts to brian@comixexperience.com and we’ll see what can be done.
The Comic
Book Legal Defense Fund: put up here before any other link because it is
an organization you should support.
Comicon’s
Splash: Rick Veitch’s news site is a great source for news and information
about the "real world" and comics.
Newsarama: Pretty much the best "daily feed" kind of news – if there is a comic publisher’s press release to be found, you’ll find it here, in a nice format, with instant comment threads.
The Pulse: Comicon's online news mag, put in place after Newsarama went to View Askew recently.
Comic Book Resources: Another good source for daily news and features about comics. Of particular interest is Rich Johnston's Lying In The Gutters. Every Monday, Rich prints rumors, gossip and, even more rumors, making it part of my weekly routine. This site also hosted Larry Young’s Loose Cannon column and Gail Simone’s You’ll All Be Sorry. If you search around in "resources", you’ll find a pretty nutty and comprehensive set of links for just about any obscuro comic book site you might want.
Silver Bullet Comics: Former home to Rich Johnston’s gossip column (now at Comic Book Resources). All the Rage is now being written by Ian Ungstad, and still has enough comic rumors to make it worth checking out each week. I just wish it didn’t have the annoying pop-ups.
Comic Shop News: Just like the freebie publication.
Comics Continuum: I think their design is a bit loud, but there’s good scoop here sometimes.
There
are THOUSANDS of these things, these are the ones Brian checks out (in order
of frequency) – I’m also not listing publisher boards that have other links
down below. You can find those by visiting those sites.
The Warren Ellis Forum: Pretty much THE place to discuss comics and comics activism. Run by a sometimes benevolent dictator (folks call Warren "Stalin"), the level of flaming juvenile idiots is amazingly low.
ComicCon’s Panels: Slightly worse signal-to-noise ratio, but interesting stuff appears from time to time. These boards also hold the commentary on the Newsarama stories
The Comic Journal’s messageboards: You’d think they could keep the flame-wars, and the arrogant snobbiness down a bit. TCJ is absolutely my favorite comics news magazine, but these boards are a PITA.
WizardWorld: The Mouth of Hell. Seriously. Mouth-breather magnet, and only barely moderated, as far as I can tell. Almost no conversation of interest here, unless you are willing to lose a lot of brain cells to dig deep. Losing brain cells can be fun on occasion, though.
Borderline:
Loads of interviews.
Comic Annotations and Bibliographies: Michael and Peter Karpas have assembled a very complete site tracking comic book bibliographies and annotations from around the web. It also includes extremely detailed biblios for Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Frank Miller, Matt Wagner, Kevin Smith, and Mike Carey.
Comics International: The UK comic magazine’s site.
The Comics Reader: Commentary and stuff.
Comics Worth Reading: Johanna Draper Carlson’s excellent review site.
Digital Webring: More comics news and links.
Fanboy Rampage: Jeff's too bashful to put all of them up yet, but he'll sure as hell plug 'em here!
Fourth Rail: Randy & Don review the week in comics.
iComics: Interviews and news.
ICv2: Comics business analysis.
Indy Magazine: A fine site focusing on independent comics and their creators.
Ninth Art: Intelligent commentary on comics.
Popimage: Interviews and reviews.
The Savage Critic: Yes, it is self-referential to link back to our own reviews, but no one person reviews more comics a week than our own Brian Hibbs.
Savant Magazine: Lots of good commentary here.
Sequential Tart: Focused on comics from a woman’s point of view.
The Spinner Rack: All the reviews you could possibly want.
Tilting at Windmills: More self-referentiality, but it is our link page, so what are you going to do? Dozens of columns on the comics industry and business practices by CE’s own Brian Hibbs.
Tony’s
Tips: Tony Isabella’s daily column.
Abel,
Jessica: Artbabe
Adams, Neal: The legend
Allred, Mike: The Madman himself
Amano, Yoshitaka: Brilliant Japanese painter
Balant, Jim: Tarot
Barr, Donna: Donna Barr’s Desert Peach and Stinz
Bendis, Brian Michael: Jinx, Powers, and like 47 Marvel books
Bennett, Anina: Heartbreakers
Bertozzi, Nick: The Nub
Biggs, Brian: Dear Julia
Bradstreet, Tim: The cover artist
Brennan, Michael: Electric Girl
Brereton, Dan: Nocturnals
Brubaker, Ed: One of the best comix writers working today
Brunetti, Ivan: Schizo
Bryne, John: THE X-Men artist
Campbell, Eddie: Bacchus, From Hell
Casey, Joe: X-Men and stuff
Cassaday, John: Planetary
Chabon, Michael : Official homepage of the terrific novel about comic book creators The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Includes his intriguing unused treatment for the X-Men movie.
Cho, Frank: Liberty Meadows
Darrow, Geof: Hardboiled
David, Peter: What hasn't he written?
Delano, Jamie: Hellblazer
Dixon, Chuck: He writes a LOT!
Doran, Colleen: A Distant Soil
Dorkin, Evan: It IS the house of fun with Evan and Sarah.
Dorman, Dave: He’s a fabulous painter.
Drechsler, Debbie: Illustrator
Dwyer, Kieron: it is the Lowest Common Denominator, man.
Dyer, Sarah: It IS the house of fun with Evan and Sarah
Eisner, Will: What is wrong with you? It’s Will Eisner, man!
Ellis, Warren: Transmetropolitan and way more. Also home to just about the greatest comics commentary board on the ‘net.
Fabry, Glenn: Preacher cover artist. Officially endorsed site.
French, Renee: Ninth Gland, Soap Lady
Foglio, Phil: Girl Genius, Xxxenophile
Forney, Ellen: I was Seven in ‘75
Frazetta, Frank: The legend
Gaiman, Neil: That Sandman guy. Follow the links to his Journal.
Gloeckner, Phoebe: A Child’s Life, and more
Grant, Steven: Alleged Fictions
Grayson, Devin: Batman, Ghost Rider
Guinan, Paul: Heartbreakers and more
Hernandez, Lea: Rumble Girls, Clockwork Angels and more
Horrocks, Dylan: Hicksville, Atlas
Hyland, Greg: Lethargic Lad
Immonen, Stuart: Superman and more
Kelly, Joe: Writer
Kirby, Jack: The King
Kubert, Joe: A legend
Lash, Batton: Supernatural Law
Lieber, Steve: Whiteout, and more
Madureira, Joe: Battlechasers
Mahfood, Jim: Fresh and funky
Marder, Larry: Beanworld
Medley, Linda: Castle Waiting
McCloud, Scott: Understanding Comics. Really.
McCubbin, Laurenn: Upcoming comix genius.
McDaniel, Scott: Batman
McDuffie, Dwayne: Milestone
McKeever, Sean: The Waiting Place
McKeever, Ted: Metropol
McNeil, Carla Speed: Finder!
Mignola, Mike: Hellboy
Millar, Mark: Ultimates madman, among others
Millidge, Gary Spencer: Strangehaven
Millionaire, Tony: Sock Monkey, Maakies
Moore, Terry: Strangers in Paradise
Morrison, Grant: Excellent writer, weird site. Has also started the very weird crackcomicks.com.
Morse, Scott: Soulwind and more
O’Connell, Mitch: Good taste gone bad
O’Neil, Denny: Batman and more
Perez, George: That master of detailed rubble!
Pini, Wendy: Elfquest
Pope, Paul: THB and others
Pratt, George: Fab Painter
Priest, Christopher: Black Panther writer, among others.
Risso, Eduardo: 100 Bullets and more
Robertson, Darick: Transmetropolitan
Robinson, Alex: Box Office Poison
Ross, Alex: Marvels, Kingdom Come, Earth X
Rucka, Greg: Batman
Russell, P. Craig: Oooh, pretty
Seagle, Steven: Crusades, House of Secrets
Sienkiewicz, Bill: Dude!
Simon, Joe: The Golden Age great
Smith, Barry-Windsor: Woo!
Smith, Jeff: Bone
Smith, Kevin: Yah, he writes comics, too.
Starlin, Jim: Dreadstar
Stephens, Jay: Jetcat, woo!
Stevens, Dave: Damn fine artist
Talbot, Bryan: Luther Awkright
Van Fleet, John: high-quality Painter
Veitch, Rick: Technically the whole Comicon site is Rick's but this is where he puts up a great cycle of Rare Bit Fiends dream strips.
Vess, Charles: Damn fine artist
Watasin, Elizabeth: Charm School
Watson, Andi: Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day, Skeleton Key
Wheeler, Shannon: Too Much Coffee Man
Williams, Kent: A fine painter
Williams, J.H.: Promethea
Winick, Judd: Barry Ween and the Real World.
Wolfman, Marv: Long-time writer
Wood, Brian: Channel Zero
Woodring, Jim: Jim, Frank--The very definition of a comics genius, according to Jeff.
Wrightson, Bernie: The legend
Zeck,
Mike: Punisher
Actus
Tragicus: Israeli comics collective
AiT/PlaNetLar: Everyone’s favorite drunken monkey, and his fine line of graphic novels.
Alternative Comics: Possibly the most diverse line of books being published today.
Archie Comics: So wholesome, my teeth hurt.
Bongo Comics: The site for Simpsons comics
CrossGen Comics: The official CrossGen site
Dark Horse: The official Dark Horse site
DC Comics: The official DC site
Diamond Comics: Well, not a publisher, unless you count Previews, but the largest American distributor’s site has lots of good comics information
Drawn and Quarterly: The official D+Q site
Fantagraphics: The official FBI site
Graphitti Designs: T-Shirts and limited edition books
Highwater Books: An eclectic group of comics
Humanoids Publishing: The official Humanoids site
Image: The official Image Comics site
Last Gasp: Everyone’s favorite underground/alternative distributor.
Marvel Comics: The official Marvel site. Lots of on-line comics here, if you can stand the flash format.
Oni Press: Oni’s official site. Lots of downloadable .PDFs of comics here.
Slave Labor: The official SLG site, publishers of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Lenore.
Top Shelf: The official Top Shelf Site.
Viz:
The largest American publisher of translated Japanese comics.
Lambiek’s
Comiclopedia: Quite possibly the most stunning listing of creators you’re
EVER likely to find.
Comicon's Main Hall: Already mentioned above several times, Comicon also hosts a great "Main Hall" that links to close to 150 creators and publishers.
The Xeric Foundation: Grants given for aspiring comics creators.
The Friends of Lulu: A non-profit organization for female comics fans.
Grand Comics Database: They’re trying to list credits and story details for every comic ever published. Neat, yet scary!
Top 300 comics analysis: Carl Henderson provides great archives of actual comics sales.
Comics Industry Pro e-mail addresses: Also kind of scary, if you know what I mean.
The Master List: It might seem a little unusual for a comic shop’s link page to send you off to a listing of OTHER comic book shops, but hey, we recognize our customers travel from time to time.
Looseleaf Book Company: Extremely short but fun interviews with Brian, Jeff, Trina Robbins and Steve Leiahola about superheroes.
107.7--The Bone: Brian's radio station of choice when he works in the COMICS store. So, when you look at it that way.....it's a "comics" site.
The Lazy Bastard: What Jeff works on when he should be working on the Comix Experience website (and vice versa).
Neil Gaiman Interview: Conducted by CE HC Brian HIbbs.
Seanbaby: Jeff will actually read these pages about Hostess ads and the Superfriends and laugh until he cries. Really.
Brian
Hibbs interview: An extremely long interview with Comix Experience head
cheese Brian Hibbs.
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