Timothy Callahan
Tim Callahan has been writing about comics professionally for over half a decade, and, prior to that, he had spent a solid twenty years pondering everything about comics. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and kids and absurdly comprehensive library of role-playing games and comic book collected editions. Follow him on Twitter at @TimCallahan
The Anatomy of Expression: Will Eisner and 'A Contract With God'
In 1978, the legendary Will Eisner released A Contract With God upon the world, a masterpiece that launched the graphic novel craze that would eventually compel your local Barnes & Noble to push aside mid-list Sidney Sheldon and Chuck Palahniuk novels to dedicate upwards of twelve feet of shelving to books like The Walking Dead Volume One, The Walking Dead Volume Two, Persepolis, and ...
Mania and Dream Logic: Looking Back at Steve Ditko's Cackling 'Creeper'
The Creeper isn't the greatest Steve Ditko creation, and it's not even the most Ditko-esque. (Maybe those are the same things.) But one thing the Creeper comics have going for them is that they follow their own unsettling dream logic, and Ditko commits to the mania that powers the title character. This is a costumed vigilante who dresses in yellow body paint, wears a green wig, and sports a freaky ...
The Inhuman Magnetism of Ted McKeever's 'Eddy Current'
A comic like Eddy Current feels like it should start with a bang, and it almost does. The explosion comes soon enough, with a lightning strike and loose power cables jammed into an exposed outlet and a Dynamic Fusion Suit that goes "zam!" Eddy Current, the comic, and Eddy Current, the title character, begin the adventure supercharged, and everything goes haywire from there. Originally ...
Jack Kirby's 'Spirit World': We Are on the Outside
The 2012 hardcover collection of Spirit World isn't just a compilation of lesser Jack Kirby ephemera. These are comics that few readers have ever seen, not because they weren't popular, but because they weren't given a chance to become popular. Not that the series stood a chance to gain a huge following upon its release in 1971, as unusual and weird-looking as it was (and still is!), but these ...
Mike Baron and Steve Rude's 'Nexus': Exploding Preconceptions Since 1981 [Review]
"I begins and ends with Andrew Loomis," Steve Rude wrote in a 1989 collection of his sketches published by Kitchen Sink Press. "Loomis takes the best qualities, whatever sexual, sensual qualities that men respond to in women and refines that to a laser's focus." Rude learned to draw by copying Loomis. And by copying Jack Kirby. And Alex Toth. And Paul Gulacy. And he didn't stop there. Rude's ...
SEX: 'Sex' Writer Joe Casey on New Superhero 'Sex' Comic [Interview (about 'Sex')]
When teasers popped up this past summer with the line "Image Comics Wants You to Buy Sex," it wasn't all that shocking to discover that Joe Casey was behind it all. His new comic book series, he announced in San Diego, would cut through all the will-they-won't-they games and get right to the point with its one-word title: Sex. It's not that Casey is known primarily for his sexually-charged ...
