The comics industry expresses concern over Stan Lee's home situation, a dispute between Afro Comic Con and a cosplay photographer, Roddenberry releases Star Trek Starfleet moto jackets, and more geeky news from the past week.
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Here are the top 100 comic books and graphic novels ordered by comic book stores in North America in January through the direct market serviced by Diamond
Geoff Weber writes, It was all up to me. I had a comic that had to be finished that same night, but it was four pages short! My friends and I had started
Brandon Wainerdi went to the DC Press Breakfast this morning at SXSW for Bleeding Cool. Yeah, he has "nerd" in his surname, but he could drop you as soon
POW Entertainment is the LA intellectual property and appearance company founded by Stan Lee. It was bought in August last year by Chinese company Camsing International, with Lee remaining as CCO. And it is attempting, once again, to register the trademark "Stan Lee".
At SXSW, current Action Comics writer Dan Jurgens told the assembled crowd that his final story for Superman in Action Comics #1000 will reference that Moore/Gibbons story in title, called From The City Who Has Everything, a deliberate play on words.
These were given away today at the DC Comics event at SXSW — it looks like DC is fully embracing the return of Superman's red shorts.
Man, this has been some time coming. But mentioned at the DC Comics SXSW event today in Austin, Texas, with Jim Lee, Frank Miller, Dan Jurgens and Brian
I remember joking with Comics Alliance's Andrew Wheeler when he worked for Google about Google starting its own Google Comics and putting Marvel and DC
Philip Cruise writes, We are incredibly excited to be in production for the World Premiere of Emmy-award winning cartoonist Dean Haspiel's new work "The
Here is a copy of Chris Claremont and Jim Lee's X-Men #1 from 1991. With a print run of 7 million copies. And on sale at Books-A-Million. For $549.95.
ComiXology Bestseller List: Walking Dead takes the top, beating out Batman digitally. And Dark Horse shows here's a lot more demand digitally for Critical Role... and a lot less for Infinity Countdown.
Marvel Comics may have just noticed the attention that Catwoman's wedding dress got in the media. And since they have a Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) going through something similar with Colossus, it looks like they fancied a little bit too.
Ian Melton reported from ECCC: For their second panel of ECCC, Editor-in-Chief Warren Simmons and Marketing Vice President Hunter Gorrison, in what we now
This week's Private Eye magazine has a piece in their Street of Shame section on the cartoonist Matt Pritchett, known as Matt, who works for the Daily
Yes, yes, all the fuss about the week's Amazing Spider-Man #797 is about whether or not the Red Goblin is in it, or just how much kissing Peter Parker did with Mary Jane Watson. But Spider-Man seems to be going for something different.
Marvel Comics released an image by Jim Cheung ahead of what was seized upon being called their Fresh Start for 2018, which Marvel didn't much object to.
Marvel has informed retailers that Hunt for Wolverine: Mystery in Madripoor #1 will now be will now be drawn by Thony Silas, instead of the previously solicited Chris Bachalo. And there are plenty of other changes being announced, some by DC, most by Marvel Comics.
Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics isn't just selling comics -- he's writing them. He is writing a comic book biography of Harvey Milk, the first elected openly gay politician in America, assassinated in 1978. The book will take in a greater degree of LGBTQ history as well.
Comic sales have been declining for years. As cold as you can get it, from a man who knows. Mike Richardson owns more of a comic book publisher than anyone else, in that he owns Dark Horse Comics.
Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1, was the most-ordered comic by direct market comic stores in North America in February 2018. Though Peter Parker:
Ian Melton went to ECCC for Bleeding Cool. This is what he brought back, Valiant started their news and announcements at ECCC on Thursday at the Diamond
Heather Antos has been an Assistant Editor at Marvel Comics since 2015, after previously working as a comics editor on Unlawful Good: An Anthology of
Last week, Marvel Studios changed the date of the release of the Avengers: Infinity War movie from Star Wars Day, May the 4th to April the 27th. Just a
LINE Webtoon, the popular digital comics publisher from South Korea has teamed up with Legendary Comics to launch Pacific Rim: Amara, an exclusive prequel
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Marvel unveiled ten variant covers by women artists for ten of their upcoming Marvel comic book titles. Black
The variant covers for Action Comics #1000 contimue to creep out... Here is the retailer exclusive cover by Tony S. Daniel of Action Comics #1000 for
In 2014, Emma Beeby was the first woman to write a Judge Dredd comic. It took almost forty years after the launch of 2000AD - and 14 years after the year
The Red Goblin is the big thing for Dan Slott's goodbye story from Amazing Spider-Man culminating in #800. Originally teased as a Mephisto/Norman Osborn thing, it soon became clear it was Norman Osborn and Carnage teaming up. But what if it's all a fake-out?
Aside from multiple prints that can only be ordered through reorders, topping the chart is the upcoming Daredevil #600 now with added Mike Perkins, Saga #50, and Doomsday Clock #4.