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Interview: David Petersen (San Diego Comic-Con 2012)

by bucky· July 17, 2012· in Interviews, Video Interview· 0 comments tags: Archaia, David Petersen, Mouse Guard, San Diego Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con 2012
Hey Comic Impact! Sheldon here with yet another incredible interview from San Diego Comic Con 2012! In this interview we talk to Michigan’s native son David Petersen of the Eisner Award Winning book Mouse Guard from Archaia! David and I talk a bit about whats coming up next with his Black Axe and Legends of the Mouse Guard line of books. We also talk about how he would develop Mouse Guard into a live action film and what it would take to make that happen!
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Sequential Sunday: The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths

by John Mueller· February 12, 2012· in Sequential Sunday· 0 comments tags: Alex Sherman, Archaia, Archaia Entertainment, Brian Holguin, Jim Henson, Lizzy John, The Dark Crystal, The Legends of the Dark Crystal
In 1982 directors Jim Henson and Frank Oz, in collaboration with acclaimed artist Brian Froud, introduced us to the vivid world of Thra via their high fantasy film classic The Dark Crystal. Like many great fantasy epics a key reason for the success of Crystal lies in the believability of the setting in which it takes place. The setting of Henson, Oz, and Froud’s grand effort is rife with suggested histories and mythologies, a place teeming with a vast array of arcana seen everywhere: on clothing, jewelry, amulets, weapons, carved into ancient architecture, and scrawled across ancient crumbling parchments.
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Sequential Sunday: Best of 2011 (Part 2)

by John Mueller· January 15, 2012· in Sequential Sunday· 0 comments tags: Archaia, Archaia Entertainment, Art Spiegelman, Dark Horse, David Petersen, Flesk Publications, Hampton, Hellboy, Hellboy The Sleeping and The Dead, Mark Shultz, Mark Shultz: Various Drawings Vol.5, MetaMaus, Mike Mignola, Mouse Guard, Mouse Guard the Black Axe, Pantheon, Scott
As we enter mid-January and 2011 becomes more and more of a memory, I’d like to close out my look at the most notable releases of the past year so that those who may have missed the following can seek them out, or those who have read these be reminded that they are very worthy of a second (or third) read. So, without further ado let’s begin with…
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Sequential Sunday: Escape To The Indies With Archaia II

by John Mueller· October 16, 2011· in Sequential Sunday· 0 comments tags: Archaia, Archaia Entertainment, David Petersen, Eisner Award, Eisner Award Winner, Fraggle Rock, Jacamon, John Chandler, Matz, Mooch, Mouse Guard, The Black Axe, The Jim Henson Company, The Killer, The Skrumps
Welcome back to this continuing look at highly noteworthy releases from Archaia, a company whose dedication to compelling storytelling, beautiful artwork, and top-tier book design has earned them a reputation as one of the best independent comics publishers in the industry. Though Archaia releases cover a wide spectrum of genres, they are best known for their fantasy titles, largely due to the success of their flagship series, David Petersen’s Mouse Guard.
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Sequential Sunday: Escape To The Indies With Archaia

by John Mueller· September 18, 2011· in Sequential Sunday· 0 comments tags: and Ben Templesmith, Archaia, Archaia Entertainment, Bleedout, Chris Mangun, Feeding Ground, Giannis Milonogiannis, Glenn Fabry, Howard Chaikin, Michael Lapinski, Mike Kennedy, Old City Blues, Swifty Lang
It’s interesting to note the amount of conflict and turmoil “the big two” comic publishers are willing to inflict on their faithful and loyal readers, readers that without whom they wouldn’t exist. Relaunching, rebooting, renumbering, and the killing off of time-tested characters are some of the ways the majors shake beloved, long established universes up. There are two goals that can be achieved by doing this, and they rarely go hand in hand:
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Sequential Sunday: Cyclops

by John Mueller· August 14, 2011· in Sequential Sunday· 0 comments tags: Archaia, Archaia Entertainment, Cyclops, Luc Jackman, Matz Jackman
Tales of dystopian societies and their corrupted and controlled cityscapes have a long and rich history across multiple areas of media, tracing back at least to the time of H.G. Wells. Still, it is within the last few decades that the frequency of these stories, in print and film, have increased exponentially.
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Sequential Sunday: The Killer

by John Mueller· May 29, 2011· in Sequential Sunday· 0 comments tags: Archaia, Archaia Entertainment, Luc Jackman, Matz Jackman, The Killer
There are many books and comics that tempt the reader with the promise to go inside the mind of a murderer, but none in recent memory do so in such an alarming and realistic way as The Killer, a superb French comic series by Matz and Luc Jacamon.  This multiple Eisner Award nominated title, translated in three hardcover volumes to date from
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Sequential Sunday: Free Comic Book Day – Archaia 2011

by John Mueller· April 24, 2011· in Sequential Sunday· 0 comments tags: A Tale of Sand, and Season of the Dapper Men, Archaia, Archaia Entertainment, FCBD, FCBD2011, Free Comic Book Day, Free Comic Book Day 2011, Janet Lee, Jim McCann, Mouse Guard, Rámon Pérez, The Dark Crystal
As almost everyone reading this knows, Saturday, May 7, is Free Comic Book Day at participating shops across North America. With over 35 free titles vying for the attention of avid comic fans, I’d like to make a special note of the exemplary offering from publisher Archaia — Mouse Guard, The Dark Crystal, and Season of the Dapper Men, plus a sneak peek at the highly anticipated graphic novel A Tale of Sand all under the cover of one flip book. I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of this release and my already high expectations in terms of art and storytelling were completely surpassed.
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Sequential Sunday: Best of 2010 (Part 2)

by John Mueller· January 17, 2011· in Sequential Sunday· 0 comments tags: Abrams ComicArts, Archaia, Archaia Entertainment, Batman: Hidden Treasures, Bernie Wrightson, Brendan McCarthy, Carol Tyler, Charles Burns, David Petersen, DC, Fantagraphics, Flesk Publication, Jamie Hernandez, Kevin Nolan, Len Wein, Mark Shultz, Marvel, Mouse Guard, Mouse Guard:Legend go The Guard, Norman Pettingill, Norman Pettingill: Backwoods Humorist, Pantheon, Ron Marz, Spider-Man: Fever, The Art of Jaime Hernandez: The Secrets of Life and Death, Todd Hignite, Xenozoic, X’ed Out, You’ll Never Know Book 2: Collateral Damage
Welcome back for the second and final installment of my look at some of the best of last year’s releases. Let’s not mince words and get right to it, shall we?
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Sequential Sunday: Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #1& 2

by John Mueller· July 18, 2010· in Sequential Sunday· 0 comments tags: Alex Kain, Archaia, David Petersen, Gene Ha, Lowell Francis, Mouse Guard, Mouse Guard Legend of the Guard, Scott Keating, Sean Rubin, Ted Naifeh, Terry Moore
When the first issue of Mouse Guard by David Petersen was published in February 2006 it was clear to see that this was the start of something special, a very singular creation that would find an audience amongst fantasy fans and comic art aficionados. In a post-Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings media world heavily saturated with images of high fantasy, even the most vibrant of magical imagery seems commonplace. This is why a comic series that depicts colonies of intelligent mice struggling to survive in their dark (and often highly dangerous) medieval world feels so grounded and appealing.
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