Negative Space: comic books
- 1994 San Diego Comic-Con Reports
- Reports from the 1994 San Diego Comic-Con.
- 2 - Friday
- Grant Morrison: “I didn’t know there was so much Satan worship going on. Satan gets around.”
- About Comics
- Old information about comics.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight of the Superheroes
- Some time circa 1987, after Watchmen and before his falling out with DC, Alan Moore submitted a proposal for a series that was never published. Plunging the DC Universe into Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods, it was never brought to fruition.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: Background
- The social structure of the world of “Twilight of the Superheroes” has crumbled, leaving superheroes as royalty.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: Heroes
- Subtitled “Drunks, Hookers, and Panhandlers”, you can get a feel for what Moore thinks about the heroes of the future in Twilight of the Superheroes.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: Houses
- In “Twilight of the Superheroes” there are eight major houses of superheroes across the United States, from the House of Steel in New York to the House of Thunder in Los Angeles.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: Is It Real?
- Michael R. Grabois asked on Compuserve whether or not the Twilight of the Superheroes document was real, and received this comments. Also, some comments have arrived because of this web page, and I’ve archived them as well.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: Ramble
- Moore discusses the ups and downs of mass crossovers and describes the perfect mass crossover: Twilight of the Superheroes.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: The Plot
- The Twilight of the Superheroes story itself involves heavy use of John Constantine and has a lot of bloodshed.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: The Story
- The core of “Twilight of the Superheroes” takes place decades in the future, involving the heroes of the future attempting to warn the past what is happening.
- The Annotated Will Eisner Dreamer
- An annotation of the real events portrayed in Will Eisner’s ‘The Dreamer’, a fictional look back at the beginnings of the comic book industry.
- Annotations and Information
- Comics, Annotations and Information
- Asking Artists for Sketches at Conventions
- Wayne Wong’s description of the dos and donts of getting sketches at American comic conventions.
- The Business of Comics
- Comics, About Comics, Business
- Cerebus the Gopher
- Information about comics, comics creation, and meeting up with other comics creators. Serving the on-line comics community since 1991!
- Chapter 1: A Fistful of Spandex
- by Henry R. Broaddus; title by Daniel J. Sikorski
- Chapter 2: Gunshots and Grapefruits
- by Daniel Warren; title by Henry Broaddus.
- Comic book convention reports
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Comics/Conventions/
- Comic Book Conventions
- Conventions, convention listings, and convention reports. Home of “Fear and Loathing in San Diego”.
- Comic Book Recommended Reading
- A list and description of the best comic books in the world. Or at least in the United States.
- Comic Book Reviews
- Broaden your horizons by reading about other people’s perceptions of comic books.
- Comic book scripts
- Comic book scripts to provoke violent thought.
- Comic Books on the Net
- Comic books that the creators have put on-line, and a description of what you can expect to find at each site.
- Comic Creator Home Pages
- Looking for comics writers, illustrators, inkers, editors, letterers, and so on on the net? Here are some home pages of the famous and not so famous.
- The Comic Ground
- As of November 5, 2020, the Comic Ground has been shut down.
- Comic Meeting Grounds
- Places to talk about comic books on the net: MUDs, Newsgroups, and Mailing lists.
- Comics as a career
- The text-only archive of career information on Cerebus the Gopher. Many professionals have made their advice public on the net.
- Comics Creators on the Net
- Comic creator home pages, interviews, reviews, new comics listings, publisher home pages, and on-line comic books and strips.
- The Comics Link Morgue
- Where do links go when they die? Over the last few decades some useful and interesting work has been lost; you can find some of them on the Internet Archive.
- Comics Marketplace
- Places to buy comics on-line and off-line, and places to buy related products, such as that cool Vargas painting with the juggling—you know what I mean.
- Comics on the Net
- Many creators are putting entire comic books and comic strip collections on-line. Look here for the best of the on-line strips and books.
- Comics Scholarship
- Writings, studies, and surveys about comics, the comics community, and comics history.
- Comics text archive
- Elder comics info archive from before the web, and the web’s infancy.
- Creative Markets
- A listing of Internet marketing sources and non-net marketing sources for comic books and creation.
- Dave Law’s Creative Markets Listing
- A (somewhat aged) list of creative markets for comic art from Dave Law.
- Different Formats
- It’s a good idea to keep collections of a number of popular comics in stock, since it can be an excellent way to introduce someone to something new.
- Education is the Key
- Every retailer I talked to reemphasized the necessity of “growing” individual titles, and your alternative-comics stock overall, slowly, by talking to customers about the subject, taking their ordering suggestions, and giving recommendations.
- Fear and Loathing
- Don’t hate the convention; become the convention. “Her license said Massachusetts. Her eyes said addict. She’d blasted every red light between here and Boston, and the toad was by her side.”
- General Comics Sites
- Everybody and their brother have a comic book site on the net. Hell, my brother’s brother has one too! Look here for piquant and refreshingly short analyses of these sites.
- Gopher Select
- The best comic book web sites and discussions on-line and off.
- International Comics Sites
- Comics are even popular in parts of the world where they don’t use English. Gosh!
- Life is a Dance (94.8 KB)
- Punk Rock Superhero.
- Location, Location, Location
- To a non-comics-fan, comics stores look like you need a secret handshake to get inside.
- New Comic Book Release Listings
- If you’re interested in seeing a list of new comics shipping, or past lists, find them here. Most rely on Diamond’s shipping list.
- New Comics archive
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Comics/New Comics/
- Pipes Around the Moon (105.9 KB)
- The Hollow Men, the Stuffed Men, and the Noh Men.
- Publishers on the Net
- Comics companies and publishers and their web pages.
- Publishing Your Own Comic
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A sort of basic primer for publishing your own comic, by Adam Swan, of Legacy Comics.
- RACC Challenge II Issue 20
- “James Taylor - Marked For Death! or, If I hear one more Jesus-walking-the-boys-and-girls-down-a-Carolina-path- while-the-dilemma-of-existence-crashes-like-a-slab-of- hod-on-James-Taylor’s-shoulders song, I will drop everything and hop the first Greyhound to Carolina for the signal satisfaction of breaking off a bottle of Ripple and twisting it into James Taylor’s guts until he expires in spasm of adenoidal poesy.”
- Rec.Arts.Comics Challenge!
- The purpose of RAC Challenge! is to have fun and to exercise creativity. Participants pursue these goals through their construction of a chapter in an ongoing story written in the tradition of super-hero comics. RAC Challenge! is based on DC Challenge!, a now defunct title which operated according to a similar rotation of authors.
- Retailing Alternative Comics 101
- Everyone has concerns about how to keep a store viable in these times. Ancient capitalist wisdom says: diversify. You may run a perfect superhero comics emporium, but your audience is limited to fans of those comics, and if superhero-comics sales are declining, you have no safety cushion. If you add a mainstream comics section you could attract new buyers.
- San Diego Comic Convention
- The San Diego Comic-Con has a rich history, and there were some fascinating reports out of San Diego during the last century.
- Self-Publishing: Color
- A detailed description of printing color in self-published comics.
- Sell-Through
- The lesson here is also that they keep selling for two months, and not only that, but for two years, and longer.
- The Sentence for Freedom is Death (75.4 KB)
- Is the world ready for a Noh-inspired superhero? Probably not.
- Specialized Comics Sites
- Many fans create detailed web pages with information about a favorite comic or favorite creator. Most are quite interesting and will have comicographies, lists of what they’ve done outside the comics field, and perhaps a sketch or two.
- Spotlight on Vincent Sullivan
- Transcription of a Vince Sullivan interview from the 1993 San Diego Comic Convention.
- Tools for Comics Creators
- Tools for comic book creators, including the “Comic Ground” collaboration area, the Gutters and Closure mailing lists, and some retailing ideas.
- What to Start With
- Start with eight to ten titles in trade paperback form, and concentrate on those.
- Why They Went Exclusive
- Mark Thompson’s in-depth analysis of the 1995 exclusivity fever in comics publishing.
More Information
- Alternative Comics
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“Alternative Comics” publishes some great stuff by Kochalka, Henderson, and more. A pretty nice-looking selection of comics in their on-line catalog also.
- Animal Man: Origin of the Species•
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The first volume ends just as it starts getting weird. The second volume really brings a restrained Grant Morrison ethos out into the open. This is where I started picking up the series, on a recommendation from a friend. This was one of those series that kept me coming back into the comic book shop every month; it wasn’t just a love of the story but the stories clear love of superhero comics that sucked me in.
- Comic Art Collection
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Michigan State University library’s Special Collections division, including a list of the comics in the collection.
- Comics Research Bibliography
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Includes bibliography of articles on both scholarship and marketing.
- Crazed Ferret
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The Crazed Ferret quicktime/avi movies! Must sees! Getting a bit long in the tooth, and what’s with the Star Trek trailer on each one? Nice examples of early multimedia from the Carnageian era of the net.
- Elliot S! Maggin
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Fan info on Elliot S! Maggin, including descriptions of his contributions to the Superman mythos. Also including samples from “Last Son of Krypton” and “Miracle Monday”, two brilliant novels. This is a must stop site, folks. Find out why he uses the exclamation!!!!!!
- Grant Morrison Comixography
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Everything ever written by Grant Morrison, including some plays. If you want Grant Morrison, this is the place to be.
- Ira Schnapp: The Visionary
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“Ira R. Schnapp was an eyewitness to the first-ever appearance of the Man of Steel. He also saw the debuts of the Caped Crusader, the Scarlet Speedster, the Emerald Gladiator, and the Amazing Amazon... in person. He was there the day Barry Allen raced across the bridge between the earths and became the Flash of Two Worlds. He saw the mightiest heroes of comics’ Golden Age unite for the first time to form the Justice Society of America. And he witnessed the unforgettable first meeting of the JSA and Justice League of America with his own eyes.”
- Mack White
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Some of Mack’s comics, presented fully on-line. Includes the Goat Nuns, The Mutant Book of the Dead, The Treasure of San Diablo, and more!
- Steve Gerber
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From the author of Howard the Duck and Void Indigo and many Saturday morning cartoons. Look around for short stories, comic book script templates, and Steve’s latest comics. Also, read his blog. “Only when a writer has been called a liberal, pseudo-intellectual, oversexed manic-depressive can he be sure he’s fighting the good fight.”
- The Cowboy Wally Show•
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Cowboy Wally hires a director to film a documentary about his life. Drink beer. And watch Sands of Blood interspersed with the Cowboy Wally Show.
- Vertigo FAQ
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What do you want to know about the Vertigo line from DC Comics? A decent amount of news links here. Worth checking out. Getting a little old, however. November 1999?
- WasteLA
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Waste L.A.: Descent; the photo-comic to begin photo-comics. And you can order it right here. Or read it right here. Descent is one of the best series I read in 1996, and I strongly recommend you check it out.
- indy magazine
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Interviews with comics creators and reviews from 1994 to 2005.
