The Boston Metaphysical Society is a new web comic and graphic novel by Madeleine Holly-Rosing. Her story places a ghost finder and ex-Pinkerton detective named Samuel Hunter in league with a medium and a scientist. The trio form the Boston…
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Dirigible Days: 998 – Kickstarter
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Dirigible Days, the graphic novel More Dirigible Days, you say? Indeed, I would love some! If you’ve not done yourself the favor of watching the original web series, you can do that here. Then skip on over to Day 304…
The Cleverness of Sailor Twain
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Sailor Twain or the Mermaid in the Hudson is a graphic novel by Mark Siegel. There is a riverboat on the cover, the author’s name is Mark and the hero’s name is Twain. But don’t be fooled. This is not…
Press Release: Lady Mechanika Set To Return To Print on Sold Out Issues
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Due to overwhelming fan and retailer demand, Aspen Comics will be going back to print in March on the sold out issues of their red hot series Lady Mechanika. Creator Joe Benitez’s steampunk mystery series debuted to popular and critical…
Godspeed, Screw-On Head: a Review of Mike Mignola’s “The Amazing Screw-On Head”
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Best known for his seminal work on his creation Hellboy, Mike Mignola put together The Amazing Screw-On Head in 2002 as a great one-shot comic. As he himself describes, the character started out as a toy concept, “a robot head,…
“To me, my scientists!” A review of The Five Fists of Science, by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders
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Much like our modern times, those living at the turn of the nineteenth century were facing a cold war: an “armed peace” where the major powers of the world had the military strength to wipe each other out. In 1899,…
Dandyism, vice, and revenge! Review of Grant Morrison’s early steampunk comic ‘Sebastian O’
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Ask most Steampunk fans for an example of a true Steampunk comic, and no doubt you’ll hear about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, perhaps Hellboy, or for the truly astute, just about anything by Warren Ellis. These are all great…
“The Return of the Dapper Men” by Jim McCann and Janet Lee
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The other day I found myself on a search for something my 9 year-old son and I could read together. I discovered that, while Steampunk is a well-established genre, there exists a fairly small selection of media for the youngest…
Interview with Antonio Serra
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Greystorm was published in 2009/2010 and edited by Sergio Bonelli Editore, one of the major Italian comic publishers. It is a 12-issue miniseries with protagonist, the wicked inventor, Robert Greystorm. Throughout the story, we find vintage submarines, airships, other steampunk…
8 A Steampunk Anthology
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My name is Theresa. I am a graphic novel junkie. There, I said it and I’m not ashamed. When my editor asked me to interview Samuel E. Kirkman Jr., a collaborator for “8 A Steampunk Anthology,” I jumped up and…