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By Michele Brittany - who chaired the panel at San Diego Comic Con There are a lot of examples in the industry where women characters have broken away

The regular Zombie Walk through downtown San Diego Comic Con was this year's source of Convention-related serious injuries, and in a rather public

It began two days ago with this tweet, started by Amuly. @sirdefdot #JANETVANCRIME — EverybodyILoveDies (@Amuly21) July 27, 2014 It was a reaction to the

So, during San Diego Comic Con, we ran a big spoiler for this week's Chew: Warrior Chicken Poyo #1. Officially sanctioned of course. But it may have got

Ms Marvel recently went to its sixth printing, a rare accomplishment in comics today. But chatting with Marvel executives at San Diego Comic Con I

Saying goodbye to the "God pass".... San Diego Comic Con has been a spate of hellos and goodbyes, last show for some, first show for many. We'll be a

The Death Of Wolverine #1 is $4.99. An increasingly popular price point or such events, popular amongst publishers at least. But Dynamic Forces are

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

John Constantine is DC Comics' best known smoker. Starring in the series Hellblazer for 300 issues and now the Constantine comic, we've been used to

Will Romine writes from San Diego Comic Con, Hey Gang! It's your old pal Will Romine here, with another edition of "The People that you Meet at San Diego

Marq Romero writes, To celebrate Batman’s 75th anniversary and the upcoming release of Batman: Arkham Knight, WB Interactive Entertainment held a

Okay, there's Reginald Hudlin, Matt Wagner, Nick Barrucci here as well. But the massive crowd is here for Quentin Tarantino, to celebrate the publisher's

Those who went past Chris Burnham's table in Artists Alley at San Diego Comic Con will have had a nice surprise. We learned that Heavy Metal Magazine are

Announced at the Women of Marvel panel at San Diego Comic Con, and spinning out of the Spider-Verse event, a new ongoing Spider-Woman series by Dennis

Peter Sailer liveblogged the DC Comics panel New Faces Familiar Places right here, This panel is supposed to be David Finch discussing what it’s like to

Yesterday, after reading his comments about the problems with exclusives at San Diego Comic Con, I spoke with Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics at his

Nikolai Formich writes, On Saturday, animation legend Willie Ito was awarded the Inkpot award. Ito worked in animation as a character designer, layout

Remember when Jonathan Ross was castigated after accepting the invitation from Neil Gaiman to host this year's Hugo Awards? It was quite a thing and made

Paraded at the Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic Con, IDW showed off a bunch of comics that they had previously cold out of, including this week's

Reported from the Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic Con, Diamond Comic Distributors wanted to point out that, while sales may be a little softer in recent

By Nikolai Fomich Every year at SDCC, Christian proselytizers and counter-protesters gather outside of the convention to battle for the hearts and minds

All by one person, of course. No, no, seriously now. Madefire have put up the Polish comic Milk For The Ugly on their digital distribution service. And it

So here is a thing. According to the Salt Lake Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con has sent them a cease and desist letter over their use of the phrase "Comic

Every year the crew of Ascension watch an old black-and-white film, from a German rocket scientist based on Von Braun, announcing the Ascension project.

The Nailbiter is a big comics fan, but is not happy that Bendis killed Peter Parker, the Ultimate Spider-Man. Brian Bendis has agreed to appear in an

Jeremy Konrad lets us know... Hasbro is partnering with Marvel to do exclusive Marvel Legends variant covers in October. Ten in total. First two are here.

Peter S. Svensson drinks Gatorade and writes for Bleeding Cool. Boom Studios had their annual panel at Comic Con, which didn’t announce any new titles,

It has just been announced at San Diego Comic Con that Kieron Gillen and Jason Aaron are the two new writers for two new Star Wars monthly titles to be

Peter S Svensson has been liveblogging the IDW Rocks panel. Catch it all here. But worth breaking out a few announcements from the panel. Such as the

Joseph K Schmidt liveblogged from San Diego, for the panel for The Boxtrolls by Laika, based on Alan Snow’s novel Here Be Monsters! Moderator Dave