Tim O’Neil is proposing a hard reboot of all our thinking about intellectual property laws. Here are his four proposed rules, quoted in full: Ideas belong to their creators. Any permanent transfer of IP ownership from a creator to a corporation is and always has been morally wrong. Permanent IP transfer under any circumstances is [...]

Comics have long been home to a variety of races, be it alien or underground or from an alternate dimension. But in the 100-plus year history of comics, one of the toughest for creators to portray accurately is that of black characters. And now Fantagraphics is putting back in print a key work examining that [...]

“One ‘defense’ for not making the effort to be inclusive is, ‘Aw, but man, I don’t want to have to think about this stuff, I just want to read/write stories.’ And, y’know what? We’re sympathetic to that. Thinking about it can be really taxing, confusing, and depressing. Imagine if you had to think about that [...]

Like some sort of rare element at the tail end of the periodic table, cartoonist Tom Gauld is a hard one to find. After a string of great short stories in various anthologies like AdHouse’s Telstar and Fantagraphics’ Beasts, he got his biggest solo release yet earlier this year with the graphic novel Goliath at [...]

Asaf Hanuka was a hot up-and-comer in comics around the turn of the century with the anthology series Bipolar he did with his twn brother Homer. But after that, he was drawn away to the world of magazine illustrations with all-too-infrequent trips back to comics with shorts in Bizarro World and Waltz With Bashir. But [...]

DC Comics kicks off its return to digital comics beginning Monday with the debut of the anime-influenced series Ame-Comi Girls. Based on a series of statuettes released by DC Collectibles (formerly DC Direct), Ame-Comi Girls features some of DC’s top female characters redesigned both in story and style to be more like anime and manga. [...]