Townsville's Heroes Rally Against King Steve In 'Powerpuff Girls' #8 [Preview]
The City of Townsville, as you'll know if you read last month's The Powerpuff Girls #7, by CA favorite Derek Charm, is quite possibly facing its darkest moment ever. Well, except for that time Princess...
View ArticleThe Powerpuff Girls Pay Homage To Louise Simonson On Fun 'Super Secret Crisis...
Writer Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson's House of Secrets #92 is historic for serving as the 1971 debut of of Swamp Thing, but it's also famous for featuring Louise Simonson as a model. Since then...
View ArticlePreview: IDW & Cartoon Network's 'Super Secret Crisis War!' #1 And Comic-Con...
I watched a lot of Cartoon Network in the '90s (and the 2000s, and the 2010s, but that's beside the point), and I distinctly remember thinking that if there was one thing that could really improve...
View ArticleThe Joe Shuster Centennial: A Tribute To Superman's Co-Creator On What Would...
To celebrate the centennial anniversary of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster's birth, some of the men and women who've benefited from his tremendous artistic influence have paid homage to and shared...
View ArticleBest Convention Sketchbook Ever (This Week): Original Art From Comic-Con 2014
Over the past few years, I've been toting around themed sketchbooks to conventions to get pieces of art from some of my favorite comic book creators, based on Jack Kirby's creations and tokusatsu...
View ArticleJack Kirby: A 'King-Sized' 97th Birthday Tribute Spectacular, Part One!
Jack Kirby is very arguably the single most influential figure in the history of American comics. He produced countless stories in a career that spanned seven decades, inventing and re-inventing genres...
View ArticleDerek Charm On IDW's 'Powerpuff Girls Super Smash-Up,' The New Cartoon...
With New York Comic-Con coming up this weekend, many publishers are saving up their big announcements for the Javits Center. IDW Publishing, however, has decided to get the jump on everyone by...
View ArticleThe Powerpuff Girls Form Like Voltron Into A Giant Cat Made Of Fire In...
Team-up comics are the best. The simple fact is that if one superhero (or team of superheroes) is great, then two is going to be twice as great, and books like DC Comics Presents, Marvel Team-Up, and...
View ArticleBest Art Ever (This Week): Kamen Rider, Nexus, Batman '89, Man Of Steel,...
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, as well as the special qualities of comic book storytelling, but because cartoonists,...
View ArticleIDW Open the Doors to 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' This October
Seen fleetingly throughout the recent Star Trek movies, the Starfleet Academy will take the spotlight this October for a miniseries at IDW from Mike Johnson, Ryan Parrot, and Derek Charm. Set partly...
View ArticleMixed Nuts: Creators Pay Tribute To Charles Schulz With Unique 'Peanuts'...
From October 1950, when the very first installments of Peanuts was published, every single installment of the strip was drawn by Charles M. Schulz's own hand, and the only variations in the style of...
View ArticleDerek Charm Heads To Riverdale For 'Jughead' #7
Archie Comics’s recent reboot titles have been on a roll lately, with the main title by Mark Waid, Fiona Staples, Annie Wu and Veronica Fish reinvigorating the classic Riverdale characters, and Chip...
View ArticleRyan North And Derek Charm Take Over 'Jughead' In September And Are Bringing...
Archie's reboot titles have been firing on all cylinders from right out of the gate, largely in part to the publisher's adept hand at selecting top quality creators to update and rethink some of the...
View ArticleZdarsky And Charm Bring You The Horror Of The Mantle Family Reunion In...
If you're familiar at all with Derek Charm's work on titles like the creator-owned Trip Fantastic, then you've probably already realized that he's one of the few artists that could be called absolutely...
View ArticleDerek Charm Draws The Redesigned Powerpuff Girls For An Exclusive Variant Cover
A few years back, I had a conversation with Derek Charm where he talked about how much he loved drawing bright, poppy colors. Even then, I thought his clean lines, expressive style and love of neon...
View Article'Jughead' #8 Pits Archie, Jughead, And Mr. Weatherbee Against A Bear, In The...
As much as they might've been modernized over the past few years, I think it's still safe to say that Archie comics are rooted in a series of classic elements. The eternal war between Betty and...
View ArticleMojo Jojo Takes to the Airwaves in 'Powerpuff Girls' #1 [Preview]
Never fear, Citizens of Townsville --- the Powerpuff Girls are back! Not just in an all-new 40-episode season arriving on Cartoon Network starting in April, but with an equally all-new ongoing comic...
View ArticleToo Crazy For The Show: Derek Charm On Drawing 'The Powerpuff Girls' In Comics
The city of Townsville is home to three of pop culture's greatest superheroines, and with their return to television with a new series last year, it was only a matter of time before The Powerpuff Girls...
View ArticleSabrina Returns And Grubhead Makes His Dynamic Debut In 'Jughead' #9
Sabrina the Teenage Witch returns to the rebooted Archie universe in Jughead #9, coming next week by Ryan North and Derek Charm, and she's sharing pages with Grubhead, who might just be the sensational...
View ArticleJughead's Date With Sabrina Is Going Very Well With Absolutely No Problems At...
In Ryan North and Derek Charm's Jughead #10, our hero has found himself not just on a date, and not just on a date with a girl that he thought was some kind of gigantic humanoid hamburger, but on a...
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