Something For The Weekend: Femme Magnifique Is An Informative, Celebratory Salute To Womanhood
People were pretty bummed all around the world when they discovered the outcome of the US elections in the Fall
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In Conversation With…Shelly Bond On Black Crown And David Bowie
In the last of my Portsmouth Comic Con interviews, I got the chance to sit down with Shelly Bond to
Read moreTen Takeaways From The Black Crown ‘Ruling Class’ Panel At Portsmouth Comic Con
3pm on the second day of any con seems to be the sweet spot for panels. The sun’s still out
Read morePortsmouth Comic Con 2018: Sun, Fun And New Chums
At a time when people are looking round the comic convention landscape and seeing an ever crowded horizon with some
Read more“Stay Sexy, Don’t Get Replaced”: Assassinistas #4 From Howard, Hernandez & Black Crown
Written by Tini Howard with art by Gilbert Hernandez, Assassinistas #4 is out this Wednesday, the 18th of April, making
Read moreECCC 2018: Black Crown At IDW With Shelly Bond, Tini Howard, Chris Sebela, Martin Simmonds, Nick Robles, Tamra Bonvillain
At the Black Crown: The Ruling Class panel at Emerald City Comic Con 2018, Shelly Bond, Tini Howard, Chris Sebela,
Read moreECCC 2018: IDW & Black Crown Live Streaming And Panels
IDW and Black Crown have released their panel timings and live streaming through Twitch ahead of ECCC this weekend. Here’s
Read moreGround-Breaking Anthology Femme Magnifique Finds A Home With Black Crown At IDW
Femme Magnifique, wait no longer. The anthology has found a commercial publishing home with Black Crown at IDW, which is
Read moreFemme Magnifique: Celebrating The Life And Impact Of 50 Inspiring Women
Raising $97,447 on Kickstarter last March (more than double its $40,000 goal), Femme Magnifique is a comic book anthology that celebrates the
Read moreAre You Ready To Book A Room? Reviewing Kid Lobotomy #2 By Peter Milligan, Tess Fowler And Black Crown
With its literary references very clearly labelled (Kafka, King Lear and Douglas Coupland), the reader is more able to sit
Read moreSnotty, Sexy And Seductive: Reviewing Black Crown Quarterly #1
Black Crown Quarterly #1, out today in comic shops, is something similar the old Fat Wreck Chord samplers this punk
Read moreLike A Many Layered Onion, But Dipped In LSD: Reviewing Kid Lobotomy #1 By Peter Milligan And Tess Fowler
Peter Milligan has been doing wonderfully weird for most of his professional working life and Kid Lobotomy, the first title from
Read moreNYCC ’17: Comics & Chaos At The IDW: PDX Full Bleed And Black Crown Panel
The IDW: PDX Full Bleed and Black Crown Panel at New York Comic Con brought us Dirk Wood, Shelly Bond,
Read moreSPX ’17: Jim Rugg And Gilbert Hernadez On The Indie, The Mainstream, And Comic Art
At Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, on Saturday, September 16th, a panel with Gilbert Hernandez and Jim Rugg in
Read moreCatch The 2017-2018 Black Crown Comics & Chaos Tour
Black Crown, the imprint established by Shelly Bond at IDW, and now with a slate of forthcoming books announced from
Read moreThought Bubble Releases Full Schedule For Comics Festival In September
You have SDCC at the start of the summer and we here in the UK have Thought Bubble (TB)
Read moreSDCC ’17: The Very Punk Black Crown Panel With Bond, Howard, Hernandez, Fowler
The Black Crown Panel At San Diego Comic Con promised to be one of big announcements, with the panel
Read moreSDCC ’17: Black Crown Expansion Includes Assassinistas, Punks Not Dead, Black Crown Quarterly
Black Crown has announced some expansions into its shared universe today at San Diego Comic Con 2017, and some
Read moreHappy Hour At The Black Crown Pub Added A Colorist, A Character, Layouts, And Insulted Milligan (Again)
Black Crown, an imprint at IDW edited by Shelly Bond, which will be publishing creator-owned works, holds a virtual
Read moreGood Friday At The Black Crown Pub Gave Us Street Layouts, First Inks, And Milligan’s Lament
Sure, it was a holiday Friday, but that didn’t stop you going down to the pub, right? Black Crown,
Read moreBlack Crown’s First ‘Happy Hour’ Reveals Pub Lore, More About Kid Lobotomy
The new imprint at IDW called Black Crown, or alternately The Black Crown Pub, and on some deep and
Read more‘A Haunted House, On Crack, With Cannibalism’ – Kid Lobotomy Debuts From Black Crown At IDW
At the IDW panel at WonderCon on Friday afternoon, Shelly Bond and Tess Fowler had a big announcement, the
Read moreIDW Announcements At WonderCon – George Takei’s Graphic Novel, Black Crown And More
On the opening day of WonderCon in Anaheim, California, IDW held a panel called “Find Your Heroes”, and social
Read moreShelly Bond Launches Black Crown At IDW – A Mysterious Pub Which May Have Precedent
On March 3rd, during Emerald City Comic Con, Shelly Bond announced during an IDW panel that she is joining
Read moreCracking Ceilings, Taking Names, Changing The Game – It’s Femme Magnifique
Three days ago, the crowdfunding campaign launched for a project already catching the attention of the comics community. Spearheaded by
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