Chinua Achebe: 1930 - 2013
Between 1958 and 1987, Achebe released five novels, eight short stories and several books of poetry. His final novel was 1987’s Anthills of the Savannah. Achebe won Great Britain’s Man Booker Prize for lifetime achievement in 2007. read more
Neil Gaiman to Return to Marvel with Spawn Character Angela
Marvel has officially confirmed that Neil Gaiman is returning to write comics for the company. What’s more, in an epilogue to the event storyline Age of Ultron, readers will see the return of Gaiman’s original creation Angela to the Marvel Universe. read more
Letting It Go by Miriam Katin
Writer & Artist: Miriam Katin Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Release Date: March 19, 2013... read more
R.I.P. British Horror Writer James Herbert
Writer best known for The Survivor, Fluke, Haunted and The Rats (retitled as Deadly Eyes). read more
Exclusive 6-Page Image Comics Preview: "It Girl & The Atomics #8"
Writer: Jamie S. Rich Artist: Mike Norton Publisher: Image Release Date: March 20, 2013 “THE WORLD IS FLAT,” Conclusion It Girl is trapped in the Alps trying to rescue a kidnapped scientist from a slippery supervillain, a scary gangster lady, and her two giant robot sons. Is the scientist’s coveted device the secret to getting out alive? It Girl’s just going to have to turn it on and find out!... read more
Comic Relief with Constantine & Green Arrow Writer Jeff Lemire
In Comic Relief, Paste chats with its favorite writers and artists about the art that inspired them their own current projects. Jeff Lemire is a master of the quiet and calm. The creator behind such independent treasures as Essex County and The Underwater Welder defined his craft with desolate vistas of negative space filled with adrift characters searching for themselves among other things. In Lemire’s best moments, lonely and beautiful are usually one and the same. Over the phone, the acclaimed author is thankfully less reserved than his characters, riffing on his new books and the grocery store digests his... read more
Salvador Dalí: The Making of An Artist by Catherine Grenier
If our age may be characterized by a fascination with the outsized personality, the shameless shaman-showman, then Dalí is the prototype. read more
A Short Ride: Remembering Barry Hannah by Louis Bourgeois, Adam Young and J.W. Young
Barry Hannah hunched over the stack of short stories. “OK, here’s one,” he said, pulling out a couple of pages, squinting through the swirling smoke of a cigarette. read more
The Top Ten John Constantine: Hellblazer Stories
This Wednesday, DC will usher its magic bastard extraordinaire John Constantine to a brand new title and number one issue, relaunching a character who supported 300 issues of history and talent in the seminal Hellblazer comic. First introduced in Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing after artists Steve Bissette and John Totleben requested to draw a character who resembled Police frontman Sting, Constantine is known more for making terrible decisions and pissing off malicious deities than plucking bass strings. And even though a boozing, womanizing conman might not sound revolutionary in passing, Hellblazer elevated the fledgling mature readers market of the 80s... read more
Pantalones, TX: Don't Chicken Out by Yehudi Mercado
Writer & Artist: Yehudi Mercado Publisher: Archaia Release Date: March 12, 2013... read more
Hammett Unwritten by Gordon McAlpine (as Owen Fitzstephen)
Before this book, the cleverest take on the amorphous affliction known as "writer’s block" came from the movies. read more
Red Doc> by Anne Carson
There’s an Anne Carson story winding through Anne Carson’s life. read more
Mindy Kaling to Write Second Book
During The Mindy Project panel at PaleyFest 2013 on Friday, Mindy Kaling announced that she will write her second book during the summer hiatus of her Fox comedy series. read more
Marvel to Release Over 700 No. 1 Issues Digitally
A great chance to get Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and Astonishing X-Men. read more
Scott Snyder to Explore Batman's Origins in Zero Year Storyline
With the release of Zero Year, it looks as though beloved Batman scribe Scott Snyder will now be stepping up to bat (pun intended) to add his own touches to the early Batman mythos. read more
Sex #1 by Joe Casey & Piotr Kowalski
Writer: Joe Casey Artist: Piotr Kowalski Publisher: Image Comics Release Date: March 6, 2013... read more
Comic Book Writer Suspends Kickstarter Project in Wake of Fan Outrage
What started off as an inspirational example of the power of crowd-surfing website Kickstarter now seems to have devolved into a cautionary tale. read more
Age of Ultron #1 by Brian Michael Bendis & Bryan Hitch
It takes an especially gifted writer to make the X-Men truly work, and although the franchise is humming along nicely at the moment, smart writing is a quality that X-Men comics have largely lacked for the last 20-odd years. read more
Artist Withdraws from Controversial Orson Scott Card-Penned Superman Story
"The media surrounding this story reached the point where it took away from the actual work, and that’s something I wasn’t comfortable with." read more
Last Day in Vietnam: A Memory by Will Eisner
Writer & Artist: Will Eisner Publisher: Dark Horse Release Date: March 6, 2013 (Reprint); July 15, 2000 (Original publish date)... read more
