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Here at Comic Impact we cover the world of comic books and anything that may impact it! Here you’ll find reviews, previews, upcoming films, video games, toys, power rankings, plus other articles and updates in geek culture!
We host a weekly podcast called the POW (Pick of the Week) to chat about our comic book picks and pull lists. The nerdy/sexy Cosplay Girl of the Month, we’ve got every corner of the comic book universe covered from the true fan’s POV.
In June 2009 (six months after we began), ComicImpact 2.0 was established.Looks nice right?
Aaaanyway, we would love to hear from you - the fans - because (if you haven’t already noticed) we are fans too!We work for free (for now any way….ahh maybe one day) and put all our articles up here on Comic Impact for you guys ,so let our writers know how much you appreciate it ! Comment! Cause as cool as getting to interview big names and getting cool swag for pay is ,it is always better to know that people are reading what you are writing.What do you love? What do you dislike? What could you care less or more about in the world of comics? Please feel free to contact us, and make sure to add us on Myspace, follow us on Twitter, and join our Facebook page.
Simon Daoudi - Owner
Simon@comicimpact.com
Simon enjoys reading comics. Oh wait, no, he LOVES reading comics. As a kid, he was watching the old 1970’s batman cartoon (yeah, the one with Bat-Mite!) when he was only a few months old.
He lived in France as a kid and that’s is why he talks kinda funny and loves Eurotrash comics such as Asterix, Lucky Luke, Judge Dredd and TinTin.
When Simon returned to the States, he fell in love with the X-Men and knew that he wanted to draw comic books. After getting sick of art school because of all the bullshit, he took up Graphic Design and now works as a freelance designer and use to works at a Comic Shop (Galaxy of Comics) in Los Angeles . A few years ago he fell in love with podcasting, and in June of 2008 he came up with BagsandBoardspodcast.com, which is now known as ComicImpact.com
When he is not designing something or bitching out a comic he enjoys photography, reading books (yes, the one with out pictures), purchasing an inordinate amount of action figures and pondering philosophy as he gets more tattoos. If he was a comic character he would be Scott Pilgrim / The Hulk, because he loves music, and when there isn’t any, he’s been known to get frighteningly disgruntled.
You can follow Simon here on Twitter. and Facebook
Sheldon Lee - Owner
Sheldon@comicimpact.com
I was born into a clandestine family of ninjas in the deep southeast of the American Colonies, I began my training to become a great super hero / zombie killer with a heavy emphasis on quips! Any way… I started reading comics at a young age and got my hands all over early, early issues of Uncanny X-Men, Avengers, Iron-man,Teen Titans, The Incredible Hulk, and Amazing Spider-Man.
Needless to say, I was a fan boy early on thanks to my uncle’s extensive Marvel Collection. Once I started really getting into comics and deciding what I liked, guys like Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, and Rob Liefeld came onto the scene and I was hooked! I fell out of comics a bit in high school, but sometime in 2001 I became a comic shop weekend manager and I was once again…hooked. When I am not diving face-first into comics I am either working in the Film and Television Industry or my other love - music and video games!! I am also ashamed to wear my Comic Impact shirt at conventions.
You can follow Sheldon here on Twitter.
Some of his favorite people in comics are Jim Lee,Todd McFarlane,Bryan Hitch,Norm Breyfogle,Andy Kubert,Frank Cho,Adam Kubert,Erik Larsen,Mike Perkins,Darwyn Cook,Greg Land,Steve McNiven,John Cassaday,Butch Guice,Romita Jr.,Joe Qusada,Alex Ross,Frank Quitely,Ethan Van Sciver,Terry Dodson,J. Scott Campbell,Tim Sale,Norm Breyfogle,Ed Benes,Chris Bachalo, Karl Kerschl,Warren Ellis,Frank Miller,Brian Micheal Bendis,Mark Millar,Joe Madureira,Clay Mann,Grant Morrison,Darwyn Cooke,Joss Whedon,Mike Mignola,Tom Veitch,Bruce Jones,Alex Raymond,Ed Brubaker,Allan Heinberg,J. Michael Straczynski,Mark Waid,Luke Ross,Jeph Loeb,Brad Meltzer,Chris Claremont,Gabriel Hardman,Jeff Parker,Scott Lobdell,Alan Davis,Alan Grant.
I’m Roxanna Meta, but you can call me Roxy, Rox, or Meta, if you like! I’m a California girl, superhero cosplayer, bookworm, animal lover, toy collector, clotheshorse, comic book dabbler, and otherwise geek-of-all-trades. I have a degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where being around like-minded bookworms only reinforced my instinct that I’m a word person at heart. That said, I hadn’t read comic books until after I met a wonderful group of Berkeley friends, who were having so much fun dressing up and going to conventions that I was jealous and had to join in! Now I’ve turned into a word-and-picture person, reading mostly DC comics and young adult titles, but dabbling in a little bit of everything. My comic habit is burgeoning, and my ability to sew slippery spandex is improving too - because what fun is reading a fantasy story if you don’t try to recreate it in real life? Now, with Comic Impact, I can’t wait to start talking with other like-minded comicworms about the latest titles and our latest adventures in cosplaying. I think this might just be what I was made to do!
Susan Damon - Features Writer
Susan@ComicImpact.com
Alright, so here’s the defining moment. This is where I write down a paragraph or two and now poof! I am a real person and not just a Susan-bot. Actually, a Susan-bot would be pretty kick-ass. Not the point! The point is that I’ve always been a girly nerd. Weird that my website is thegirlynerd.com. Huh. I am better known on the “interwebs” as bloosusan. I write. I act. I do all the Hollywood stuff. I also sit on my X-Box 360 A LOT, but that is neither here nor there. The point is we’re all here because we love comics. It doesn’t matter that I have a few killer nerd tats or that I cosplay characters like Catwoman and Black Canary. No big deal, right? WRONG! It rocks! I love my life. I love sitting and reading everything from J.R.R. Tolkien to Neil Gaiman. I love hanging out at my local comic shop. I love writing horror. All these things make me an all encompassing, highly lovable, girly nerd. I am incredibly honored to be a part of the Comic Impact crew and cannot wait to start schooling everyone on my epic knowledge of cartoons.
John Mueller - Features Writer
John@comicimpact.com
I was raised on a steady comic book diet of super heroics, supernatural horrors and sci-fi shenanigans. As fascinated as I was (and still am) by costumed crusaders there was something more enticing about DC titles of the 70’s such as The House Of Mystery, Swamp Thing, The House Of Secrets and the bizarre humor comic Plop! As strange as these books were nothing could have readied my grade-school brain for the day I randomly happened upon reprints of the notorious E.C. comics of the 1950’s, especially ShockSuspenseStories. This I was not prepared for. These stories were as grim and grisly as it got: drug addiction, terminal madness and cold-blooded murder.
At the same time I was discovering the above, MAD magazine (which I read religiously), was reprinting their early 50’s, anarchic comic-size E. C. issues in their special editions. The convergence of these things on my tastes in visual storytelling that I would hold forever could never, ever be overstated.
That, as I grew older, I would gravitate towards creators of such diverse, but perhaps equally bizarre comics creations (that exist, for the most part, firmly outside of the mainstream) by individuals like Robert Crumb, Daniel Clowes, S. Clay Wilson, Charles Burns, Mark Schultz, Art Spiegleman, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Mary Fleener, Seth, Richard Sala, Serpieri, Mike Mignola, Los Bros Hernandez, Jim Woodring, Tim Vigil and Tony Millionaire is not much of a surprise.
In short, I guess what I am saying is that comic books, in all of its many genres and styles, are one of the greatest influences and greatest loves of my life and will be until the day I die. Period.Oh, and I once got drunk with Warren Ellis.
Matthew Todd - Features Writer
Matthew@ComicImpact.com
Hi Everyone. I’m Matt, nice to meet you. It’s no surprise that I love comics. From the moment my parents took me to see Batman (1989) and bought me Batman #442 comics and geekdom were ingrained in my D.N.A.
Comics are THE storytelling medium. They perfectly blend images and words to create such wonderful art. For me Christmas comes every Merry Wednesday!!! I not only get to pick up my new comics but I get to geek out with my friends. Because that, is what it’s all about. I actually enjoyed geeking out so much I started my own blog (comicpanelist)to keep the comic conversation going. I am fortunate enough to have been invited by the fine folks at Comic Impact to come play with them and I couldn’t be happier.
I’m a huge fan of pulp and crime comics. Brian Michael Bendis’ run on Daredevil is just about perfect. I have a hard time picking a favorite comic or writer/artist. I will say that Jason Aaron, Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Matt Fraction, Scott Snyder, and Joshua Hale Fialkov’s work always gets my attention.
Geeking out together can be fun. Feel free to join in at any time. Shoot me an email, ask questions, and leave comments. I look forward to hearing from you.
Rob Andrews - Contributing Writer
Unlike most of the Comic Impact writers, Rob resides on the colder side of the Atlantic, in England. He is currently studying art at Univeristy.
Rob has been reading comic books for a few years now, and has come to immerse himself in the new world it opened for him back in 2007, when he picked up his first ever comic book; ‘Madman Atomic Comics #1′ by favourite writter Mike Allred. The reason as to why exactly Rob decided to locate his nearest comic store, and purchase said comic back in 2007, is a mystery forgotten and lost over time (basically Rob forgot and doesn’t remember). Although ever since, Rob has become a fan of the comic book medium.
His comic preferences primarily include anything paranormal, intelligent, mysterious, historical or psychedelically dimension-bending. Not to knock his love for mainstream comics as well, Rob however tends to be drawn away from the superhero classics.
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