AI art is theft. And dumb. And, frankly, insulting to a lot of the artists people claim to respect and appreciate.
Also, when you look closely, lots of mistakes.
Mistakes, say, Alex Ross damn sure wouldn't make.
I'm just gonna name drop hard. This week, I'm interviewing Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. I've got Kelly Thompson coming on the live stream, and I just got emailed asking if I could squeeze in Matt Wagner.
What the fuck is happening?
We are so excited to announce the new Geek Network Editor-in-Chief,
@lovincomicbooks
!
What is there to say? Excelsior? To me, my X-Men? In Brightest Day...?
How about, "Love more. Hate less. Read comics."
Geek responsibly and click the 🔗👇 to read a letter from our new EiC.
Up late. Reading great comics. Forgetting that outside of these walls things are crazy. I owe a lot to comic books. They helped me get off bad drugs. They help me cope with loneliness. They inspire. They linger and occupy my anxious mind. The medium won't die. We won't let it.
Mention the artist of the comic book
Mention the artist of the comic book
Mention the artist of the comic book
Mention the artist of the comic book
Mention the artist of the comic book
@40oz_Goose
What sucks is this was a cool idea, and a nod to a great time in UK comics, but they overused it, and the laughs died. Putting him in the spotlight took that mysterious fear away, I thought.
We are so excited to announce our new Social Media Manager,
@blakesbuzz
! Blake's done a great job at building the Blake's Buzz brand and championing indie comics. We're so glad to bring him onto the Metal Ninja Studios team!
Unfollowed a writer because he said some lame shit about an artist I respect, an artist who fights the good fight against comicsgate. Dude blocked me. Pissed I spent $50 bucks on his book and recommended it to people. Indie comics isn't always the warm hug we want it to be.
The countdown to
#TMNT
#1
is on for
@IDWPublishing
-I'm so excited to finally show this retailer exclusive from
@MidtownComics
-I always thought it would be cool to create a fully Japanese tribute to the Turtles! I drew the original at 19"X22" - the lettering is hand-drawn!
.
@mattkindt
joined
@blakesbuzz
to talk about all the books coming out through
@fluxhousebooks
including comic series Hairball (new this week!), Mister Mammoth, Mind MGMT: Bootleg, and more! Watch the full interview here:
This is
@stjepansejic
's INSANELY great miniseries Harleen. This was everything. Romantic. Sexy. Stuffed with intelligent writing. A side of HQ rarely seen: the doctor, the human struggling find hope in the hopelessness of Gotham. The art was staggering w/ writing just as strong
BUZZ BUZZ!
You're looking at the new publicist for
@InvaderComics
! I am so excited to be working with such a cool publisher. Now, go get signed up for our upcoming
#kickstarterreads
campaign. It's gonna be epic.
🔗⬇️
Tonight's Blake's Buzz is canceled. I gotta say goodbye to my lil potato today. I was up with her most of the night. She's not eating. Not moving. Just breathing heavy and looking scared.
Project Wheels is live! Please help me raise money for a Walkin' Wheels Dog Wheelchair for my best gal, April. If you can't donate, please share. I appreciate all of you.
This book is GORGEOUS. The feel of it. How easy it opens, how it invites you to ruffle its pages and peer into its madness.
@DarkHorseComics
are really putting out some solid products w these deluxe reprints.
#hellsing
Really bums me out people talk like this. Always attacking the same creatives. Spinning the same belligerent, ignorant webs.
We are definitely a community, and I'm damn proud to be a part of it.
I didn't know if it was cool to brag about this or not, but fuck it: I officially made money from podcasting today. I keep thinking I might be on to something but my imposter syndrome chases that away. But, like, maybe I'm on to somethin.
Sorry, everyone. Blake's Buzz is ruined. Comicsgate is a hate group. If you support it, I don't want you on my show. I also don't want you on my timeline, so, yes, I will block you.
I'm watching
#Messiah
on Netflix. I have to keep remembering to breathe. It's so intense and well done. A political thriller about the return of Christ? Or is it horror? All I know is I'm on the edge of my seat.
I have never read a Moon Knight comic. This Sunday eve, I am going to rectify it. I am going to rectify it hard. Question. Where do I start? Tell me. And I will venture down this road, on my digital steed, with your genius advice at my side.
Read Blackbird.
@heyjenbartel
and
@samhumphries
cast a spell on the graphic medium, and the result is wild and sexy. Bartel’s art is stunning and
@Treestumped
’s vivid palette compliments perfectly. Nina is my kind of protagonist: broken, intoxicated, but fiery. I am entranced.
I see a lot of creators announcing their comics are in shops when comic reviewers, like myself, never got emails about it to review.
I will quit my job right now and run your socials/press accounts. I am a hype machine. Let me do something I love and help you out simultaneously.
FYI: I have despised comicsgate forever, long before I ever nerded out into a microphone. It's a moral thing. I can build my audience naturally without talking about them, but I damn sure don't want them thinking they can go on my show & I don't have time to run background checks
I'm 34. Been collecting comics for over a decade, reading them my whole life. On this day, I just finished one of the most exquisite reads I've experienced since my eyes knew how to make letters into words. This was just.. Fucking perfect.
@AshcanPress
@BoyCartoonist
@thomasmauer
A big indie publisher said they were a fan of Blake's Buzz & offered to help facilitate interviews w their creatives & now I don't really care who blocks me because they're just missing out on great comic content.
Yeah, I struggle w depression issues but I'm not goin anywhere.
I know internet drama isn't sexy, and I try not to make a habit out of this shit, but way more people backed me up instead of attacking me today.
Must mean I'm doing Blake's Buzz right.
When you basically have a second full-time job promoting indie comics, you back and hype more Kickstarter campaigns than most, you stay up late a lot of nights thinking of how to make the community better, and people wanna guilt trip you for buying a book on Amazon. Happy NCBD.