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The Art of Ralph McQuarrie: ARCHIVES Book. By Stan Stice and John Scoleri. Published by Dreams and Visions Press. Kickstarter Campaign Close Date: July

And so it begins... Thanks to Gil at Master Tattoo in the Gaslamp for the photo...  

This is a cover from Japan's fashion magazine Frau. This is another. But this is August's cover. Big manga breakout Attack On Titan continues its mission

After launching a Marvel line ahead of San Diego Comic Con, the she-geek specialists Her Universe have just unveiled a line of Transformers-based

It's one thing you can guarantee that, every year, we'll get another rumour about the End Of The Ultimate Universe. I mean, we were right last time that

Over at Comic Book Resources, Axel Alonso did his usual run down of the week for the site. Which slipped this question-and-answer in nicely.... It's

This week, the tickets for New York Comic Con went on sale. And this is the year that New York became San Diego.... Response on Facebook was consistent...

  Adi Tantimedh writes, One of my favourite Science Fiction movies of the year, the adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Radio Free Albemuth opens

It's time has come as we thought.... A new decampi comic from Marvel launching on Tuesday that spins out of Infinity (remember that?) Thanos: A God Up

It may have outsold The Walking Dead. But clearly there were not enough copies of Outcast #1 ordered by retailers. Sorry, I mean Outcast By Kirkman

Every Friday, Funko is releasing new limited-edition Hikari vinyl figures. Hikari, meaning "light", is a highly collectible line of clear Sofubi Vinyl

Publisher of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Milk & Cheese and Skeleton Key, Slave Labor Graphics of San Jose California, run and owned by Dan Vado, has

The Diamond Retailer Best Pratice Awards are given out by the comic book distributor to comic stores to reward "best practice" - and other stores get to

One of my absolute favourite small press cartoonist Jessica Bradley-Bove writes, Eep! Although I can't go into any details right now, I'm very very happy

The CBLDF, or the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is putting out a CBLDF Banned Books leaflet, available in stores or at shows from July (in time for San

Often Marvel Comics This is how it was solicited. MIRACLEMAN #9 THE ORIGINAL WRITER (W) • RICK VEITCH (A/C) Variant Cover by DAVE MARQUEZ Variant Cover by

Written by Hannah Doerge with art by Per Darwin Berg, this is a hearted defense of the character, and the costume of Power Girl. From Hannah's blog and

Here#s Ty's Beanie Boos display at the Licensing Expo last week... and take a little look at lovely T-Bone... Does he look a little familiar? A junior

The former might be helped by the fact that it's being turned into a TV show. The latter may be helped by the fact that it was already turned into a TV

By Nikolai Fomich Locust Moon Comics proudly announced their Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Kickstarter campaign earlier this week. I sat down with two

From the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man #4... the secret, the original sin of Spider-Man... that he was not alone. Before this could happen... Someone else

I went to a few of these. However I didn't have the chutzpah to hold my phone up filming it all. Ramon Vitral did. And thanks to him and his blog, we now

Decomixado of Mexico City, the country's second largest comic shop, is planning a rather special event in July. On the 5th, alongside the release of

Take it away, Alan. He's not alone. Rock stars Dani Filth and Jyrki 69 have joined him to talk about Dead Souls: Resurrection, a redrawn and remastered

So this is how X-Force #5 ended. Cable goes explodo. In days gone by this might have been of note, but the comic book reading public is blasé these days.

This is how they began. This is their more familiar Grant Morrison/Richard Case look.   This was a more recent pre-52 version of the team.   And

Thank you YouTube (now taken down, sadly). But the Flash TV pilot roars around the internet it seems. 1. Days Of Future Yet To Come. The red and the

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

A while ago, we ran this story... quoting Jim Starlin saying, after I brought Adam Warlock back from the dead in the Infinity Revelation, someone at

The last we saw of Jerome Opeña in comic books was at the end of the Infinity series. Snce then he's done a few covers, but has been remarkably quiet on