Graphic Novels and Comics

April Showers Bring May (Super) Powers

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Marvel v. Local Comic Book Writer: Who Has Rights to Ghost Rider?

image viaNever mind if he's dead or alive, who the hell gets the money he's making?​Sometime in the late 1960s, a Missouri-born comic book writer named Gary Friedrich came up with a new character: Ghost Rider, a motorcycle stunt rider who sold his soul to the devil and consequently exchanged h ... More >>

Monsters of Metal Jam Again

image viaNever mind if he's dead or alive, who the hell gets the money he's making?​Sometime in the late 1960s, a Missouri-born comic book writer named Gary Friedrich came up with a new character: Ghost Rider, a motorcycle stunt rider who sold his soul to the devil and consequently exchanged h ... More >>

Three Against A Planet

image viaNever mind if he's dead or alive, who the hell gets the money he's making?​Sometime in the late 1960s, a Missouri-born comic book writer named Gary Friedrich came up with a new character: Ghost Rider, a motorcycle stunt rider who sold his soul to the devil and consequently exchanged h ... More >>

Growing Up In Print

image viaNever mind if he's dead or alive, who the hell gets the money he's making?​Sometime in the late 1960s, a Missouri-born comic book writer named Gary Friedrich came up with a new character: Ghost Rider, a motorcycle stunt rider who sold his soul to the devil and consequently exchanged h ... More >>

X-Men: The First Class and Mr. X Pizza

Chrissy WilmesA deliciously mutated Mr. X pizza.​Film adaptations have the dual task of not only being good in and of themselves, but maintaining a certain loyalty and respect to the story's original form. When it comes to comic books adapted into films, there's an extra element -- the nerd fa ... More >>

Mixed Blessings

Chrissy WilmesA deliciously mutated Mr. X pizza.​Film adaptations have the dual task of not only being good in and of themselves, but maintaining a certain loyalty and respect to the story's original form. When it comes to comic books adapted into films, there's an extra element -- the nerd fa ... More >>

Food Safety Legislation Stalls in U.S., Turns Violent in China

While a senator vows to stall the food safety bill in the Senate, the Chinese government takes a much firmer stance against producers of tainted food. The Associated Press reports that Chinese authorities will instate the death penalty against the worst food safety violators. Minnesota Public Radi ... More >>

Pulchritudinous Punch

While a senator vows to stall the food safety bill in the Senate, the Chinese government takes a much firmer stance against producers of tainted food. The Associated Press reports that Chinese authorities will instate the death penalty against the worst food safety violators. Minnesota Public Radi ... More >>

Matthew Scott Krentz, Streetballers Mastermind, Now Working on Blaze Brothers Graphic Novel and Film

blazebrothers.comSomebody's about to get blazed.​It's MasterMinds week (and Artopia night) here at the RFT, so it seemed like a good time to catch up with a previous recipient of the award -- one still making good on his artistic vision.Matthew Scott Krentz was named a MasterMind back in 2008 for ... More >>

Kid 'N Play

7:30 p.m. Friday, July 2. The Chaifetz Arena, One South Compton Avenue.

Heroes Unmasked, and Then Some

7:30 p.m. Friday, July 2. The Chaifetz Arena, One South Compton Avenue.

Elsinore's Proposed Album Cover Causes a Copyright Uproar

​(Via Boing Boing) Here's an interesting story developing around Elsinore's forthcoming release, Yes Yes Yes, which is due August 10 on Parasol Records. The Champaign, Illinois, indie-pop band used a painting by a friend for its album cover -- and subsequently received a notice from the estate ... More >>

Review: Xiu Xiu and tUnE-yArDs at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, Tuesday, March 30

For the uninitiated, the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center is a smallish, non-profit venue that's all-ages and alcohol free. There's no stage, so there's no fourth wall, and it's the kind of place that artists love to play. "This is a very special venue for us," Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart said last ... More >>

Stranger than Fiction

For the uninitiated, the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center is a smallish, non-profit venue that's all-ages and alcohol free. There's no stage, so there's no fourth wall, and it's the kind of place that artists love to play. "This is a very special venue for us," Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart said last ... More >>

Tonight! Ghost World at the Schlafly Bottleworks

Ghost World, the 2001 movie based on Daniel Clowes' graphic novels, will be screening tonight at the Schlafly Bottleworks as part of its Strange Brew: Cult Films series. $4 gets you in, and the film starts at 8 p.m. Starring Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson, the film's use of music is superb and s ... More >>

The Value of Batman

Ghost World, the 2001 movie based on Daniel Clowes' graphic novels, will be screening tonight at the Schlafly Bottleworks as part of its Strange Brew: Cult Films series. $4 gets you in, and the film starts at 8 p.m. Starring Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson, the film's use of music is superb and s ... More >>

Tonight: Age of Illumination Release Party at Star Clipper

Jennifer SilverbergBenjamin Sawyer, DJ Champ, and Tef Poe kick ass and create comicsAge of Illumination, ​the hip-hop-themed comic book project from Tef Poe, DJ Champ, and illustrator Benjamin Sawyer, drops tonight at Star Clipper, with a release party that kicks off at 6 p.m. Stop by, grab a ... More >>

In Between Scenes

Jennifer SilverbergBenjamin Sawyer, DJ Champ, and Tef Poe kick ass and create comicsAge of Illumination, ​the hip-hop-themed comic book project from Tef Poe, DJ Champ, and illustrator Benjamin Sawyer, drops tonight at Star Clipper, with a release party that kicks off at 6 p.m. Stop by, grab a ... More >>

Bat-Signal Over Soulard

Jennifer SilverbergBenjamin Sawyer, DJ Champ, and Tef Poe kick ass and create comicsAge of Illumination, ​the hip-hop-themed comic book project from Tef Poe, DJ Champ, and illustrator Benjamin Sawyer, drops tonight at Star Clipper, with a release party that kicks off at 6 p.m. Stop by, grab a ... More >>

Important Questions About Batman

Trivia of the four-color variety

Faster Than Batman: The Horse

Trivia of the four-color variety

Pen & Inc.

Comic-book artists are drawn to St. Louis.

Classic Korean Comics

Comic-book artists are drawn to St. Louis.

The St. Louis Comics Avalanche Continues

Comic-book artists are drawn to St. Louis.

Film Openings

Week of July 6, 2006

Best Comic Book Store

Star Clipper Comics

Best Comic Book Store

All American Collectibles

Still Smilin'?

Part Disney, part Barnum, the man who saved comics is all Stan Lee

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

Totally Bizarro

Can superheroes and alternative comic authors really get along?

Custody Battle

Marvel Comics isn't going to give up Captain America without a fight

Cough It Up

The man who created Josie and the Pussycats can't understand why his girls don't belong to him

Graphic Gothic

The House on the Borderland conflates the genres of horror and comics

Dream Weaver

Sandman author Neil Gaiman finds magic in the damnedest place

Fatman and slobbin'

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Needs Salt

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds