Comic Relief with East of West and Avengers writer Jonathan Hickman

By Sean Edgar at 10:00 AM on March 27, 2013

Paste chats with East of West writer Jonathan Hickman.   read more

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Comic Relief with Constantine & Green Arrow Writer Jeff Lemire

By Sean Edgar at 9:30 AM on March 20, 2013

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

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Comic Relief with Star Wars Writer Brian Wood

By Sean Edgar at 2:30 PM on January 9, 2013

In Comic Relief, Paste chats with its favorite writers and artists in comics about their work and the comics that inspired them. The next Star Wars film may be scheduled for 2015, but fans won’t have to wait that long for the next phase of the cosmic spaghetti western to launch. The first issue in a new Star Wars comic series launches today, filling in the 3-year gap between Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back with more interstellar adventures for Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca. And the creative team of Brian Wood and Carlos...  read more

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Comic Relief with Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola

By Sean Edgar at 1:00 PM on January 3, 2013

In Comic Relief, Paste chats with some of the most influential writers and artists in comics about their work and the comics that inspired them. Introduced in 1993, hulking paranormal investigator Hellboy spent the majority of his life battling mythological monsters and his looming destiny as the Beast of Revelations, created to lead the armies of the abyss. Writer and artist Mike Mignola crafted a post-modern treasury of folklore, myth, and religion, illustrated in angular panels dripping with atmosphere and action. The comic ushered decades of gothic and pulp influences into a streamlined narrative that reintroduced the macabre to a...  read more

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Comic Relief: Paste's Favorite Writers & Artists Pick their Favorite Comics of 2012

By Sean Edgar at 6:32 PM on December 28, 2012

Paste's Comics Team asked our favorite writers and artists to write about the comics that they liked the most this year.  read more

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Comic Relief with Brian K. Vaughan

By Sean Edgar at 12:00 PM on September 10, 2012

In Comic Relief, Paste chats with some of the most influential writers and artists in comics about their work and the comics that inspired them. Lead photo by Kevin Knight/TheShutterClick.Com The two years Brian K. Vaughan wasn’t writing comics weren’t particular short for those of us who grew up addicted to the serial pleasures of his classics Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina. The former Lost writer/producer returned in full form last March with Saga, a touching take on the nuclear family set in a visionary sci-fi universe full of lie-detecting sphynxes, aeronautical trees, and sex tourism...  read more

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Comic Relief with Mark Waid

By Garrett Martin at 12:00 PM on August 24, 2012

In Comic Relief, Paste chats with some of the most influential writers and artists in comics about their work and the comics that inspired them. The first thing Mark Waid told me is that Joe Kubert is dead. I called Waid the morning after Kubert’s death, not realizing the legendary artist was gone, and immediately heard about both his passing and the crass obituary DC Comics initially posted on its website. That obituary disgusted Waid, but he didn’t sound shocked or surprised. He was clearly angry but also sounded almost amused at how a company he is currently at odds...  read more

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Comic Relief with Jeff Smith of RASL and Bone

By Sean Edgar at 12:00 PM on August 10, 2012

In Comic Relief, Paste chats with some of the most influential writers and artists in sequential art to discuss the work that inspired them as well as their own contributions. This week features indie icon Jeff Smith, the writer and artist behind the epic Bone saga and hardboiled sci-fi thriller RASL, which concluded earlier this month. In early 2008, Smith pivoted from the whimsical, high-fantasy tone he’d established in his 55-issue Bone title to focus on an alcoholic, womanizing scientist named Rob who also happens to steal art from parallel dimensions. The wildly inventive, high concept RASL spun such influences...  read more

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