Mark Seifert Archives

Writer Paul Cornell has elaborated on one of Vertigo's NYCC announcements today -- an ongoing series by Cornell and artist Ryan Kelly about a presidential

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool showed you video of a conflict on the streets of Seattle which led to assault charges for Phoenix Jones, even though the

DC Comics has been placing an increasing emphasis on marketing outreach in recent weeks, and the New York Times is reporting that's about to continue with

It's sort of a comic industry version of the Da Vinci Code: one of the oldest and most powerful organizations in comics with a long-forgotten book hidden

DC promised us some big New 52 creator announcements this week, and here's an interesting one indeed: Fan-favorite creator Ann Nocenti will be taking over

When DC hinted just a few days ago that we should expected major creator announcements during NYCC, one presumes that today's rumor wasn't quite what they

Just last week, Bleeding Cool told you that Barnes & Noble was pulling 100 popular DC graphic novels off of shelves in response to DC's plans to

Rich is somewhere in the air mid-Atlantic by now, I've got the last of the NYCC travelers on their way from the Avatar offices, and it very definitely

Avengers comic news. Avengers movie trailer and news. And NYCC hasn't even started yet.  The excitement over this trailer is palpable all over the

What promises to be a busy week of news for the industry certainly got off to a big start today -- Phoenix Jones in action, Wonder Woman controversy, all

The vintage comics scene has been buzzing for the past several days about word that a very high grade copy of Action Comic #1 -- stolen from Nicolas

As someone who has spread out a hard-won batch of comics on a table or floor for a group shot on more than a few occasions, I was a little surprised at

In another NYCC warm-up announcement, Jon Goldwater, co-chief executive of Archie, told the New York Times that the company will revive its stable of

Looks like we're getting the start of NYCC-week announcements today. DC tells The New York Post: DC will reveal some big-time creators who’ll be jumping

THE WORLD THAT'S COMING includes more O.M.A.C., according to both inker Scott Koblish and writer (and DC Co-Publisher) Dan DiDio.  That's good, because

Welcome to the front lines of the Digital vs Print War.  Little more than 5 months ago, Bleeding Cool reported on Barnes & Noble's plans to become

An interesting bit of swipefile fallout took the top spot today, as DC apparently took note of the Mongolian Death Worm similarity mentioned below, bit

What is It?  I don't know, but it's coming, and there's a few interesting theories in the forum.  I'm hoping for It The Living Colossus. Because that

I think most people realized that September was going to be a pretty huge month with the launch of DC's the New 52.  But the real question is, what

Marvel jumps into the top spot again with a method that has in recent weeks proven to attract a lot of eyeballs for them -- using a cover or variant image

This post-New 52 continuity canon controversy of the past couple days has me wondering just how they track events, versions of events, deprecated events,

Every Microsoft Windows user in the world knows how this goes... each big, shiny, new update is inevitably followed by a number of smaller,

I love this Grant Morrison interview by Laura Sneddon that Rich dissected today.  There's been a lot made in some circles over the past decade about how

2012 is shaping up to be a pretty intriguing year for the business, and events surrounding the May 4 release of The Avengers is just one reason for that.

Another Comic Day in the books, wrapping up what was by all accounts a very successful September, both in direct market shops and for digital.  It'll be

It's time to call it, I think: Comic Day is back, and not just for DC. Big interest in weekly reviews, big anticipation for what's coming out on Comic Day

We're now in the final week of the launch of DC's New 52, and I gotta say it's been one of the most noteworthy months in recent comics history. They've

Another day, another Catwoman controversy -- today about the set pics showing Anne Hathaway in a Catwoman costume on the set of The Dark Knight Rises.  We

Had to laugh at some of the response to the Alien Anthology post re the crushing disappointment of Alien 3. To this day I don't think I've seen the whole

Well, then.  We're now just days away from the completion of New 52 launch month.  There have been sell-outs, controversies, mysteries, and