A New Documentary Explores the Life of Comics Pioneer Denis Kitchen

"Oddly Compelling"

There’s currently a Kickstarter campaign underway for the documentary Oddly Compelling: The Denis Kitchen Story. Among the incentives for this project are — as you might guess — some actual comics. Specifically, in 1972 Kitchen drew the cover for a comic which otherwise didn’t exist, titled The Giant Penis That Invaded New York. (The cover is exactly what you think it is.)

Below, you can see the trailer for the documentary — as well as contributions from Noah Van Sciver and Hilary Barta. (And, yes, this is extremely NSFW.)

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Steve Cuzor’s “The Red Badge of Courage” Adaptation Has a Trailer

"The Red Badge of Courage"

Steve Cuzor is no stranger to telling stories about men at war. His bibliography includes the Black Cotton Star series of graphic novels, which tell a story that spans centuries, including sequences in both the Revolutionary War and World War II. Now, he’s returned with his adaptation of Stephen Crane’s novel The Red Badge of Courage, due out this month from Abrams ComicArts.

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Social Media Gets (Literally) Wild in This Preview of “That Sexy Bear!”

"That Sexy Bear!" cover

Comics duo Owlin have drawn critical acclaim for their previous work, including the graphic novel How Do You Smoke a Weed? They’ve returned with a new project with publisher Iron Circus Comics, and this one is an unlikely combination of parkside antics and social media satire. Publisher Spike Trotman described That Sexy Bear! as having “[e]choes of classic mid century cartoons, crossed with 21st century sociopolitical anxiety and TikTok shitposting. It’s a terrible but familiar vision of eking out an existence in an Always Online America.”

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Previewing a Graphic Novel Adaptation of “Parable of the Talents”

"Parable of the Talents" cover

What does it take to adapt a classic novel by Octavia E. Butler into words and pictures? Damian Duffy and John Jennings did just that with their award-winning adaptation of her Parable of the Sower, and they’ve returned to that fictional setting with a new book — their adaptation of Butler’s Parable of the Talents, due out on April 22 from Abrams ComicArts. We’re thrilled to publish an excerpt from the book below.

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An Excerpt From “Metal Hurlant”

Enki Bilal cover for "Metal Hurlant"

The long-running science fiction comics anthology Metal Hurlant is returning via publisher Humanoids, and there’s currently a Kickstarter campaign taking place for this new iteration. The new iteration of Metal Hurlant will be published quarterly, and Matt Fraction, James Stokoe, Brian Michael Bendis, and Simon Roy are among the writers and artists contributing to the new version.

We’re pleased to present an excerpt from “A New Dawn,” by artist Jorg de Vos and writer Jake Thomas.

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