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HiLoBooks launches to publish serialized novels and Radium Age science fiction

Because there’s never enough great fiction in the world, we’re extremely excited that the incredible pop culture website HiLoBrow is launching its own publishing line, HiLoBooks, to bring us fascinating new serialized fiction and reintroduce the world to the scifi novels of the Radium Age. You may have seen HiLoBrow editor Joshua Glenn’s excellent io9…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Blade Runner Sketchbook takes you back to the neo-noir future

The original Blade Runner Sketchbook, containing concept art for Ridley Scott’s classic film, has long been out of print. But fortunately, one fan decided to put his entire copy online, so the rest of the Internet can enjoy a black-and-white journey through Rick Deckerd’s dystopian future. One of the particularly wonderful things about the Blade…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Erstwhile Tales is a webcomics collection of Grimm’s less popular fairy tales

Between Vertigo’s Fables comics, ABC’s Once Upon a Time, NBC’s Grimm, and the endless upcoming Snow White movies, you’ve probably brushed up on your old familiar fairy tales. But the Brothers Grimm have a whole canon of stories that aren’t constantly readapted for page and screen. The webcomic anthology Erstwhile Tales gives some love to…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

The Star Trek-X-Men crossover that no one remembers

Everybody remembers the comic book where Mr. Spock does the Vulcan nerve pinch on Wolverine, but what about the other Star Trek/X-Men crossover? https://gizmodo.com/wolverines-10-most-mortifying-moments-5496844 The impossible-to-punctuate Star Trek: The Next Generation, X-Men: Planet X, by Michael Jan Friedman, was a delicious little novel in the late nineties that stands out for its prune juice, its…

Books & Comics Esther Inglis-Arkell

Marvel tells us about AVX VS, a comic solely about X-Men clobbering Avengers (and vice versa)

Who would win in a fight, Magneto or Iron Man? Namor or The Thing? Pixie or Squirrel Girl? Such is the premise of AVX VS, a new six-issue spin-off of April’s Avengers Vs. X-Men miniseries, which features the heroes at loggerheads over the Phoenix’s return to Earth. https://gizmodo.com/marvel-comics-spills-the-beans-on-their-big-2012-event-5865591 Earlier this afternoon, io9 participated in a…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Weird Relationship Between a Michael Jackson Impersonator and an Enforcer Robot

It’s hard to perform a Michael Jackson routine night after night, lipsynching to the king of pop. But it gets a lot more complicated when you’re being stalked by a psychotic robot — and it can only get worse when the robot decides that it’s a Michael Jackson fan. Jessica Barber’s “MonitorBot and the King…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Editor Jo Fletcher predicts horror fiction will make a comeback

The last time horror fiction was a thing, during the 1990s, the market flooded with terrible trend-following books, and the inevitable contraction killed or prevented the careers of some talented horror-smiths. Now, Jo Fletcher with Jo Fletcher Books predicts a new horror comeback, among other trends, in an interview with SFX: Horror is making a…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

What’s the difference between writing science fiction and strategizing about the future?

Over at Boing Boing, vN author Madeline Ashby has a great discussion of the difference between creating Strategic Foresight (attempting to predict variables for a strategic outlook) and writing science fiction. It’s a really useful, quick primer in how to think about the future. Including not just identifying trends, but figuring out the underlying factors…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Over A Dozen Reasons To Get Excited About Comics This Winter

What science fiction and fantasy funny books will debut during the wee months of 2012? There’s new UFO drama from Vertigo, Brian Wood penning Conan The Barbarian, and the X-Men and Avengers gearing up for fisticuffs. Here’s a slew of brand new titles coming to comic stores soon. Fantastic Four: Season One (Marvel) Starting in…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Behold, the Justice League of Japan that never was

Sure, we’ve seen a Japanese version of Spider-Man, but Wonder Woman artist Cliff Chiang has now created a Justice League straight out of 1970s anime and kaiju. According to Chiang, this concept art almost became a reality a few years back. DC Comics did something sort of like this with The Super Young Team, but…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

10 weird times Marvel and DC unofficially crossed over

DC and Marvel have crossed over their superheroes officially on several occasions, but what about those times canny writers and illustrators snuck these titanic team-ups under the table? Here’s a bunch of times Marvel and DC creators stealthily transcended universes. 10.) Teen Titans torches the X-Men’s mansion In 2011, former X-Men writer Scott Lobdell was…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

In The Flame Alphabet, children kill their parents with language

Erin Cosgrove created this dark, weird trailer for Ben Marcus’ new novel, The Flame Alphabet. Billed as “an intellectual horror story,” it’s the tale of a world-ending disease that spreads through language. Only children are immune. Here’s a synopsis: A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children’s speech has become lethal.…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

The 75th Anniversary of the Very First Science Fiction Convention!

In January 1937 the Leeds chapter of the Science Fiction League had its first real convention — which might be the first science fiction convention held anywhere in the world. And now, just in time for the 75th anniversary, a treasure trove of new photos has been discovered. Including the young Arthur C. Clarke. (That’s…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

This Is Where the Avengers Do All Their Paperwork

Do you think saving the world is all about explosions and fight scenes? Not at all. There’s a lot of paperwork to keep S.H.I.E.L.D. running, and I’m sure this one-of-a-kind desk is where The Avengers stay on top of it. The desk was created by Tom Spina Designs which is the same studio responsible for…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski

In this week’s comics, Wolverine engages in psychic warfare and Ed Brubaker pens gangster horror!

Happy 2012, comic shop patrons! This Wednesday, there’s a bunch of promising new reading material on the stands awaiting your eager eyeballs. And no, the “gangster horror” in the headline has nothing to do with Ice-T smoking a joint with Warwick Davis. First Issues The release that has piqued our interest the most this week…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

More classic comic covers transformed into weirdo GIFs

Remember Kerry Callen’s hilarious GIF-ified comic covers? He’s whipped up a new batch, this time of Jim Steranko’s Nick Fury, Agent of Shield #4 and Curt Swan and Stan Kaye’s Superman’s Girlfriend: Lois Lane #29. Batman is extremely impatient. [Via Nerdcore]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Will these be The Avengers in the year 2027?

If you’re a comic book character, chances are you don’t age at a normal rate (unless you’re the Punisher or a character in Love and Rockets). Still, that hasn’t stopped artist Ilias Kyriazis from taking the tots, tykes, and tweens of the Marvel Universe today and imagining where they’ll be 15 years down the road.…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Maurice Sendak talks about his craft for 5 minutes

As part of their interview series with such luminaries as Ray Harryhausen, The Tate recently filmed Where The Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak chatting about his creative process. It’s an edifying watch and a good use of 309 seconds. [Via The Mary Sue]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Is this the Silk Spectre from Watchmen 2?

But a week after illustrations of Nite Owl and The Comedian hit the net, we’re now looking at what appears to be artist Amanda Conner’s take on the second Silk Spectre (Laurie Juspeczyk) from the upcoming Watchmen prequels. Bleeding Cool’s Rich Johnston claims to have received this artwork from a shadowy tipster (who really should’ve…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Comics Of 2011

2011 gave us a wealth of great new comics, which ranged from tales of moss monsters to feral school headmasters to martial artists with the power to make their limbs fly off. But what comic book debuts tickled our fancy the most? Here are our picks, in no particular order. Daredevil By Mark Waid, Paolo…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

HiLoBooks launches to publish serialized novels and Radium Age science fiction

Blade Runner Sketchbook takes you back to the neo-noir future

Erstwhile Tales is a webcomics collection of Grimm’s less popular fairy tales

The Star Trek-X-Men crossover that no one remembers

Marvel tells us about AVX VS, a comic solely about X-Men clobbering Avengers (and vice versa)

The Weird Relationship Between a Michael Jackson Impersonator and an Enforcer Robot

Editor Jo Fletcher predicts horror fiction will make a comeback

What’s the difference between writing science fiction and strategizing about the future?

Over A Dozen Reasons To Get Excited About Comics This Winter

Behold, the Justice League of Japan that never was

10 weird times Marvel and DC unofficially crossed over

In The Flame Alphabet, children kill their parents with language

The 75th Anniversary of the Very First Science Fiction Convention!

This Is Where the Avengers Do All Their Paperwork

In this week’s comics, Wolverine engages in psychic warfare and Ed Brubaker pens gangster horror!

More classic comic covers transformed into weirdo GIFs

Will these be The Avengers in the year 2027?

Maurice Sendak talks about his craft for 5 minutes

Is this the Silk Spectre from Watchmen 2?

The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Comics Of 2011

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