If you’re anywhere within several thousand miles of Williamsport, Pennsylvania this Sunday, April 23rd, you should swing by the Williamsport Comic Con. Why? Because it’s a new and exciting con with some great guests and vendors, and it’s only $10 to get in!$10 to get into a con?! What is this, 2006?! Yet it’s true! […]
Author: Mike DiBaggio
Watch Shell draw an East End Irregulars comic
If you’ve ever wanted to see an artist work on a comic, you’ll want to check out this video of Shell as she draws page 3 of the first East End Irregulars comic. While she draws, she also discusses illustrating, layout, and visual storytelling techniques, experimenting on composition, recovering from mistakes, and more. Check it out […]
Snag the complete Ascension Epoch collection at Alchemist’s Cove Games & Comics
One of the exciting developments of 2017 is that we once again have a local comic and game store: Alchemist’s Cove Games & Comics! If you live near Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, be sure to stop in and check them out. Alchemist’s Cove is a great local shop with a very friendly and helpful staff, […]
Supervillain Movie Review: “Split” (2017)
For the first time in more than a decade, audiences and critics alike are applauding the work of the once beloved, now suspiciously loathed, director M. Night Shyamalan. His most recent work, “Split” (2017) is a suspense/horror picture about a man (James McAvoy) with disassociative identity disorder who kidnaps three girls. Because it is a Shyamalan […]
Yule Log, with Cat and Thermokinesis
Christmas isn’t complete without a blazing yule log in the fireplace. For those without fireplaces, we offer our Christmas greeting card instead. For the interest of those who do have fireplaces, we have also included an image of a lovely superheroine, Pittsburgh’s cutest thermokinetic vigilante, Corona. And for those who have everything, we offer a […]
His Star at its Fading: An East End Irregulars Christmas Story
Our Christmas present to you is this East End Irregulars short story, starring none of the Irregulars. But it does have lots of other stars, and also Caduceus, the bio-psychokinetic doctor-in-training and sometimes ally of the Irregulars we introduced in The Dismal Tide. Two new sketches also accompany the story. This is not a tale […]
Ghost Comic of Christmas Past: ‘A Very Question Christmas’
Christmas comes in three days and the year 2016 will soon be behind us. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. ‘What, no new books??’ Obviously we will not be putting out any new Ascension Epoch titles in the waning days of this year. Shell and I actually have six in progress, plus a comic, but […]
Movie Review: Doctor Strange (2016)
I saw Dr. Strange over the weekend. While I can’t say I was excited about its prospects, I was certainly curious about the treatment this first-rate-but-third-string character would receive, especially considering that in tone and concept, Dr. Strange inhabits a very different part of the Marvel Universe than the Avengers. While the mysterious sorcerer from Bleecker […]
Giant Monster Flashback: Markers and Monsters
Friend and AE contributor Colin Richards recently posted a recap of his very impressive Drawlloween effort. Not only did he manage to draw 31 full-color illustrations in October, but he also shot a video for each of them. As anyone who has ever attempted the old “Do Something Everyday For a Month” routine can attest, that’s […]
#SaturdayScenes: A Challenge to the Honor of Lucha!
In today’s #SaturdayScenes, Pete Halstein, aka Bulwark, the accidental hero of our superhero occult adventure novel Copper Knights and Granite Men, receives a challenge from an unexpected corner: his television! “Hey, this is real life. It ain’t like professional wrestling where it’s all scripted and nobody’s worried about getting hurt, you know. And that ain’t […]
