Anthony Oliveira

Hi gang!! Hope you're doing well!! I am about to embark on a VERY FUN, VERY SILLY adventure (more on that later today!) but I thought y'all might enjoy seeing the amazing photos from the Dumpster Raccoon Cabaret's X-MEN HELLFIRE GALA we threw this weekend to celebrate the new X-Men 97 cartoon season

Hi everyone! I am in the midst of a VERY busy period of foment as several projects snap together (several many announcements soon!) but I thought I'd take a break and my thoughts about this project, and share the album of inspiration images I sent to artist Ian MacEwan for our entry in the HALLOWED

Hey friends! I popped by Super Mario Moment amid a crazy busy month to talk about one of the GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE, Super Mario Bros!!!! As you can see from the video, I am one of this film's biggest superfans with TOO MANY THOUGHTS about it! Check it out! -a Is the 1993 Mario Movie Good Actuall

Hey all - a friend has asked me to stop by their store tomorrow (Thursday March 12th) in Toronto's PATH for a little lunchtime signing of DAYSPRING - if you're around and free and would like to say hi I'd love some company!!!! Deets at the link - 12-2pm at the Indigo Spirit. The PATH is always a fun

Holy wow AVENGERS ACADEMY just won the GLAAD Award for OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK! This comes as quite a surprise - the nature of the book's publication has always made me fear it would vanish into the ether, so having this pin put into history - to say "there was something here" - means a great deal to

Tackling reader comments on the Benedictus, and further exploring its transformative work in reconfiguring meaning after the fall of the temple!

Hey friends! Hope you are all well! I am back from Japan (what a trip!) and back at my laptop again and have awoken today to alerts from friends of a wonderful treasure - the Trinity College at Cambridge's digitization of the Puckering manuscript, a key document in John Milton's own hand full of his

[warning: please read issue #60 before reading what follows - Marvel has informed me that if you're so moved, emails to mheroes@marvel.com are welcome to them and appreciated by me - if nothing else I'd like if our creative team got their deserved flowers.] And so we come to the end. It has I confes

A new piece was published today on Shelfdust by Holly Raymond about my run on Avengers Academy that I thought some of you might enjoy. Above all a writer hopes for readers like this - with the patience, generosity, and thoughtfulness to read your work and really see it. It honors me in the way I hop

Hey folks! I'm on the official MARVEL podcast today to talk about AVENGERS ACADEMY!! Check it out!! The Official Marvel Podcast | Digital Series | Marvel (Marvel)

CHICAGO FOLKS! I am in town to talk about DAYSPRING! Join us next week for ECSTATIC WRITING: A SYMPOSIUM with University of Chicago Comparative Literature - this is a FREE event! (Wednesday May 7th during the day). This symposium explores the relationship between the practice of writing and forms of

This week in AVENGERS ACADEMY - our CROSS-TIME CAPER continues, as a face from the school's past stares down a deadly and all-too-plausible future... Can MOON GIRL and RED GOBLIN turn the blood-dimmed tide that has been loosed upon the world??? This was a fun chance to visit the Days of Future Past

Hi all - I swung by PUTTING THE SQUID TO BED to talk about my writing process and goals as an artist and in DAYSPRING. It was a great chat - check it out! A crazy month, but I'll be recording the Gospel of Luke on Sunday so get your comments in! "Making out with Christ's Wounds" w/ Anthony Oliveira

In advance of our night at GLAD DAY BOOKSHOP on March 12th (come join us, Toronto!), I wrote a guest post for the Brockton Writer's blog. It is about Michelangelo, and the posture before God for the queer Christian artist. I hope you like it. It's reproduced below: I have been thinking lately about

THIS WEEK in AVENGERS ACADEMY: it's 1943 - do you know when your children are??? KID JUGGERNAUT and AARON FISCHER are LOST IN TIME - and if they don't save the day, HYDRA may recover one of the Marvel Universe's most devastating artifacts... This is our most ambitious comic YET, and I can't wait for

This week, I join musician Kevin Atwater for the release of his new single "The Cage" with my own piece. It is called "Consecrated to Your Memory." I'm grateful to Kevin for his art - for its rawness and honesty - and for pushing me in this direction. I think that this represents the thematic heart

This week in AVENGERS ACADEMY: intrepid Daily Bugle reporter MARCUS WETHERELL is on the case!!! But when those cases seem to involve both his date Justin Jin AND the hero KID JUGGERNAUT, Marcus begins to wonder if all these cases might be THE SAME??? Avengers Academy: Marvel'S Voices Infinity Comic