(Image Comics, 2014)
Illustrated by Simon Roy
Written and Lettered by Ed Brisson
Colored by Simon Gough
The standard for listing creator credits in a comic book is writer, artist, then coloring and lettering if needed, along with the editors and any other illustration or creative help. When I opened The Field, the first thing I was struck by was that the artist was listed first. I’m not sure if, pre-reviewing, I would have noticed this, but now it struck out at me from the page. Why?
(Titan Comics, 2014)
Written by Various
Artwork by Various
Edited by Dave Elliot
*Suggested for a mature audience…and they ain’t lyin’.
For a long time I didn’t know what kind of music I liked. (Keep reading, this is actually going somewhere in the realm of comics.) I blame my grandpa for this, and not in a bad way. When I was a kid he would wake us with marching band music. Nothing rouses you out of bed at 6 a.m. like the dulcet tones of John Phillip Sousa or K.L. King. Continue reading
(Ginger Rabbit Studio, 2013)
Review by Brad Gischia
Story by Rob Harrington & Giulie Speziani
Art by Cecilia Latella
Letters by Deron Bennett
Design by Christopher Kosek
Colors (Page 5) Dustin Evans
My entry into a love of comics came the way most kids’ did. Someone gave me a book or I bought one, and I was instantly locked into a war of good an evil, blacks and whites, the stark reality of unrealities. It’s easy to fall into that. Continue reading