Aug 11 2015
GRAPHIC is returning to Sydney for another year, following their stellar 2013 season, with a weekend of graphic storytelling, animation and music at the Sydney Opera House on 10 and 11 October. This year they are headlining the event with a special night with filmmaker and comics writer KEVIN SMITH, discussing his superhero multiverse. Smith, whose …
Aug 04 2015
Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 150, the comic book show that knows how to go out on a party. We’re coming to you live from Good Games Hurstville. In this 150th and final issue for Volume 1, Sydney breaks the record for the number of Spider-Men in one place. Great, now I have to …
Aug 03 2015
All the (visual) fun from the recording of our 150th (and final Volume 1 issue) of BEHIND THE PANELS at Good Games Hurstville on 1 August 2015. Once we decided that the 150th episode would be our final one for Volume 1, we had to have a party to mark the occasion. With the theme …
May 05 2015
Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 140, the comic book show that’s coming to you live from Good Games Hursttville on Free Comic Book Day! In this issue, we got a bunch of free comics, and we didn’t have to torrent a single page. SO it’s Divergence, Secret Wars, Fight Club and more in What We’ve …
Apr 17 2015
Hold onto your mittens, kittens: it’s another BEHIND THE PANELS LIVE show coming to a store near you. That is, if GOOD GAMES HURSTVILLE is near you. Yes, the rumours (and various unsubtle social media plugging) are true: the boys are doing a live show to celebrate FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! At 3PM on SATURDAY 2 …
Apr 16 2015
If you are a comics fan anywhere in the world, the pull of the major US con circuit becomes something of a mystical entity. Particularly if you live in Australia, where there are effectively two major cons in Supanova and Oz Comic-Con, and a smattering of other regional cons and fairs. As wonderful as they are, …
Mar 30 2015
For the last year, DC Comics has been releasing weekly series, leading up to the CONVERGENCE event in one way or another. Yesterday’s DC Entertainment All Access: Weeklies Converge at the Emerald City Comic-Con celebrated the successes of The New 52: Futures End, Batman Eternal and Earth 2: World’s End. Panellists included Dan Jurgens, James Tynion IV, Marguerite …
Mar 29 2015
FIGHT CLUB 2 was first announced all the way back at San Diego Comic Con 2013, but author Chuck Palahniuk has now announced some details at today’s Emerald City Comic-Con 2015 in Seattle. Speaking at a panel alongside Dark Horse‘s editor-in-chief Scott Allie – and artists David Mack, Dave Stewart and Cameron Stewart – he spoke …
Mar 18 2015
There’s no debating that The Walking Dead is one of the biggest comic book adaptations in the world, and one of the most successful TV series ever. This year OZ COMIC-CON is bringing two of its stars to Perth and Adelaide in April: CHAD COLEMAN and SONEQUA MARTIN-GREEN. Known for playing siblings Tyrese and Sasha Williams on the …
Feb 25 2015
You’d have to be a fool of a Took not to head to OZ COMIC-CON in Perth or Adelaide this year. The line-up keeps getting bigger, as Billy Boyd joins the tour. Best known for his role as Peregrin “Pippin” Took in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy, he also performed the song “The …
Feb 24 2015
OZ COMIC-CON has announced that Tom Taylor is coming to a city near you (assuming you live in Australia) in 2015. The writer of Injustice: Gods Among Us, The Deep and currently Superior Iron Man will be coming to the Oz Comic-Cons in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. In other words, all of them. Taylor is …
