A new frontier has opened for comics on Substack.
But now, something new may be on the horizon.
Read their thoughts below.
Niko Henrichon
Love Everlasting
Tom King is one of the most acclaimed mainstream comic writers of the past decade.
Matt Hollingsworth is the colorist and Clayton Cowles does the lettering.
“I reached out to Tom,” says Charretier.
Niko Henrichon
I wanted to do a creator-owned book and he had never done one.
I was wondering why, and it turns out no one had ever asked!"
King adds, “this is a new project designed by Elsa and I. Elsa captures that just beautifully.
Grant Morrison is launching a new Substack comic project called ‘In Xanaduum…'.Justin Baker/FilmMagic
These exercises have in turn enhanced her own understanding of the form.
“I’ve learned a tremendous amount of craft working on those videos,” Charretier says.
So why does it work?’
It’s challenged my assumptions about comics, and it’s making me a better artist.”
We’re gonna do that through the lens of romance.
It’s sort of Elsa and my version ofSandman."
“We started talking a while ago about doing another graphic novel,” Vaughan says.
“Graphic novels are hard to do artistically, creatively, financially.
So we’ve been looking for a home for this thing and then Substack emerged.
So we’re really excited.”
Their new graphic novel is calledSpectators, and is about sex and violence.
Other than that, Vaughan and Henrichon are staying mum about what the story will entail.
“Violence is pretty accepted in American media,” Henrichon says.
So this comic explores themes of violence and sex.
Even the most recent issue has a really horrific, disturbing suicide bomb.
For me, that part was just so wildly uncomfortable to write and to look at.
It’s amazing to me that we have such an endless appetite for violence.
But yeah, any degree of human nudity is seen as strange."
Spectatorswill be published in chunks of a few pages per week, which are accessible to anyone.
That’s how I’m thinking of it.
We hope this hybrid form will like people."
“Substack offers an opportunity to communicate more directly and intimately with my readership,” Morrison says.
The hands-on physicality of the work I’m making is very much in an anti-NFT spirit too!"
