05/01/2017 10:24am
Writers Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir discuss their writing process and working with Bioware and Dark Horse Comics to bring Dragon Age: Knight Errant to the page.
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04/03/2017 9:54am
Soupy Leaves Home writer Cecil Castelluci pens an essay about her fascination with trains and the stories of hoboes.
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03/23/2017 3:00pm
Mary Posa hates her job. She works long hours for little pay, no insurance, and worst of all, no respect. Her coworkers are jerks, and her boss doesn’t appreciate her. He’s also a supervillain. Cursed with a conscience, Mary would give anything to be something other than a Henchgirl.
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02/03/2016 8:19am
I came aboard with Dark Horse fairly early on. They were then just a small company, start-up company, five guys in an office at the end of a hallway.
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12/09/2013 3:43pm
I held my mother’s hand as cancer severed the last threads of her life. In that moment, her heart stopped beating—and mine broke. And beyond the clicking of IVs administering useless painkillers, and the humming of monitors with nothing left to monitor, I could hear music.
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06/01/2013 3:33pm
There is no greater celebration of comic-book fandom than a comic convention.
When I was a kid growing up in Reno, Nevada, all of my favorite comic-book creators seemed worlds away—mythical creative geniuses holed up in think tanks somewhere in New York, or cities where entertainment was not only an industry, it was the industry—toiling over pages late into the night under the light of a desk lamp. Other than the grueling hours, my romantic boyhood...
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05/02/2013 1:00pm
I’m so excited to be working on superhero comics for Dark Horse. As the very name of the company implies . . . these superheroes ain’t no boy scouts in spandex. They’re a high-octane blend of the damaged, quixotic heroes of pulp and detective fiction and the do-gooders in capes from the Golden and Silver Ages.
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04/02/2013 12:07pm
I came across my first comic book when I was five years old.
It was a crusty, beat-up Spider-Man comic from the seventies; the cover was torn, the spine was a joke, and the pages were so yellow you’d have thought someone was chain-smoking around the thing. It was more pulp than fiction, really. But I was officially hooked.
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03/31/2013 2:44pm
When we coined last year’s marketing campaign, “It’s All Going to Hell in 2012,” we didn’t consider that it didn’t really leave us very far to go in 2013. But that’s sort of where we’re at with the world of Hellboy and all his friends—we’ve broken a lot of things that can’t be fixed, and there’ll come a time when there’s literally just nothing left. Right now, though . . . these guys live in some interesting...
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01/01/2013 12:00am
Too often stories can be taken for granted, bundled away as frivolous entertainment, but it only takes glancing at a newspaper, opening a book (nonfiction included), or having a conversation to see that storytelling is an inexorable part of communication, which in turn is an inexorable part of the human experience.
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