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Debuting at New York Comic Con… Title: Dead Man’s Party #1 Creators: Jeff Marsick (Writer) and Scott Barnett (Art) Available: Booth #2950 (Small Press

Amanda Hocking is one of the true success stories of e-books, selling over a million of them, without having previous publishing experience or media

Every month ICV2 take Diamond's comparative sales figures and try to plug some actual numbers in, and extrapolate sales figures for the whole line. They

You may have noticed that Marvel Films will be releasing a movie, The Avengers, next summer starring Samuel L Jackson, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Emsworth,

It's been almost a week. I think we can get away with this now. At the end of the first issue of Avengers 1959 by Howard Chaykin, the younger Nick Fury,

Here's the cover to the Image edition of the small press hit Our Love Is Real by Sam Humphries and Steve Sanders. It's out in three weeks, but one hundred

By Eve Johnston (6) By the next Lying In The Gutters, NYCC 2012 will be over... but for this week, if you want to get in touch while I'm in town

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool reported on the arrest of Phoenix Jones for assault, and his own claims that he was intervening in a street fight. Thankfully

JobDelight: I got a press release from Boom's Chip Mosher earlier today, promoting Boom's comic Outcast. By this afternoon, he was no longer at Boom, but

I was surprised to hear that the DC Elseworlds graphic novel JLA: AGE OF WONDER would be reprinted in a single book and out in shops this week. I

Bleeding Cool have covered the real life superhero antics of Phoenix Jones, who patrols the streets of Seattle challenging the like of drug dealers, car

Rebellion are to repackage a number of Judge Dredd tales in a manga-sized format for 2012 to appeal to a new audience generated by the Dredd movie. The

This article has spoilers. Obviously. Today's New York Post sees a DC-arranged spoiler, talking to Wonder Woman writer Brian Azzarello and co-publisher of

In January, Dynamite are publishing a new Kirby Genesis series, Dragonsbane, by Thor's Robert Rodi and Fritz Casas, with Alex Ross and Jack Herbert

KidWatch: Novo Nordisk has supported the creation of a new educational comic designed to inform UK paediatric patients about haemophilia. The company has

Youi is an Australian brand of insurance. And in their latest TV campaign, they've run a series of ads showing what good listeners their staff are. By

Maybe your family has been deleted by a change in continuity. Maybe some irresponsible rumour monger has suggested your book is to be cancelled. Or

The character may have been deleted by the evnts of Flashpoint. But Brett Booth does insist on keeping drawing him. I wonder if he knows something we

This list is a work in progress... feel free to add your own event details in the comments  and I'll update. Wednesday, October 12th Jim Hanley’s NYCC

This is the complete cover collection of Amazing Spider-Man #666 including all the different retailer-specific covers from around the world, displayed by

Batwatch: From Superpunch, right. GalleryWatch: Alex Ross gets an exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. "To many, people comic books have a

I'd forgotten about Project Superior. Here's the back wall of Brian Wood's office. As photographed by Brian Wood.

Air Pirates. Superduperman. What The--?!. I do love a good comic book parody. Yesterday I was asked by a comic book publisher to write an upcoming parody

The ad is called Wünderful Stuff, it's for Müller yoghurt, and it aired in the middle of X-Factor on ITV1 tonight. Ninety seconds of mashup, starting with

Scott Koblish, inker on O.M.A.C., has posted on the Bleeding Cool boards, regarding a post earlier this week, Will O.M.A.C. Be First For The Chop? He

Haven is closing its doors. Is there room for another comic book distributor to pick up the pieces that the monopoly behemoth iof Diamond Comic

So the Diamond figures have come through. DC has grabbed the top spot in both volume and dollars spent on comics in September, for the first time in six

Here's the lineup for the month... note Justice League #2 is shipping seven weeks after the first...

GunWatch: Blame Canada. Alpha Flight #5. WarrenWatch: Warren Ellis on the DC Marketshare grab; So DC Comic’s media-blitzed massive relaunch of its entire

Despite the best efforts, the unaired pilot of Locke & Key still hasn't leaked onto the internet. But here's another chance to see it, at NYCC next