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Nick Spencer is a bar-owner turned successful comic book writer of Existence 2.0, Jimmy Olsen and Morning Glories. Christian Ward is the artist of Image

Welcome to the fourth instalment of No More Mutants, a series of columns looking at the representation of minorities in superhero comics. This week I’m

From the Diamond Retailer Breakfast at NYCC, a few interesting statistics from Diamond Comic Book Distributors. Comics sales through Diamond declined 2.4%

At today's Diamond Retailer Breakfast meeting at NYCC (and boy are my fingers tired from typing that) Dark Horse announced that they are about to start a

At the Diamond Retailer Breakfast at NYCC, both Marvel and DC confirmed their commitment to a new $2.99 price point for comics starting in January. Marvel

At the Diamond Retailer Breakfast meeting at NYCC, Dark Horse announced that as part of their 25th Anniversary year in 2011, and also to celebrate their

At the Diamond Retailer Breakfast meeting at NYCC, Dark Horse announced that, following a gap after the ending of the Buffy Season Eight series in

He’s still there. And now he’s got a promotion. Bob Wayne, ex-Texan retailer, has been working in Sales at DC for, well, as long as I can remember. He’s

Captain Action is a famous doll, made more famous that the original company licensed costumers for the character to wear that included the likes of

Rich Johnston is somewhere in New York. While the cat is away the semi-sentient automatic comic content collator will play. This is The Bleeding Cool

Aranim is a new Jordanian company set up by Suleiman Bakhit, about to launch a new line of graphic novels aimed at Middle East audiences, with an eye to

DC and Marvel are taking a much welcome axe to the price points on a number of their printed books – the kind of activity that I believe could revitalise

So one of my old fillings fell out eating a New York bagel. Ow. Drinks are having to be curtailed as a result. Double ow. Oh and I managed to leave my

Okay. Off to the airport now. Catching a plane with Paul Duffield. Say, wonder if I can get him to do me a sketch, we've got a long flight ahead of us...

Okay, this is an interesting one. The internet domain suffix ".ly" is used by all sorts of people as a kind of pun, creating an adjective out of a domain

Six years ago this was the headline; TOP ARTIST JIM LEE SPEARHEADS COLLABORATION FOR MINISERIES THAT TEAMS BATMAN WITH THE JOKER Today DC announces that

Stan Lee's schedule at San Diego was a hectic one. But his lineup for NYCC is even more so, concentrated as it is into three days. Here's a run down...

Sybil Anne Vs Ratticus is part a classic children's French comic by R. Macherot, being published by Fantagraphics next year. The original series,

Lazuardi Birru is a Jakarta-based non-profit publisher has just published Ketika Nurani Bicara, or When Conscience Speaks, a130-page graphic novel with

This is not going to work. This never works. But this is my plan for the weekend. I will end up having to junk half my plans. That's just way it goes. But

Steve Rude is the celebrated co-creator of Nexus. And he needs your help. Suffering from the financial downturn, he and his family are about to lose their

To paraphrase Joss Whedon's line from the X-Men movie - "same thing that happens with everything else you put in a woodchipper." But said in the throwaway

This is a video of Iron Man. He is dancing. In the park. I think that's it. Yes, yes, that's it. What more do you want? http://vimeo.com/11178250

JokerWatch: The New York Times looks at the career of Jerry Robinson and the invention of The Joker and Robin. While Mr. Robinson is a passionate defender

Aaron and Tri-Force Mike of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida look through the week's comics shipping tomorrow in the US and Thursday (for now) in the UK.

Tomorrow sees the release of Neonomicon #2 from Avatar. Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' continuing horror crime series based on the works of HP Lovecraft

Bleeding Cool first reported on it during San Diego Comic Con this year. Then ran a number of mentions over the month. Then caused its beta site to be

Lee Garbett of Batgirl fame has created a new book, dedicated to teaching how to draw superhero comic book action scenes, Draw Comic Book Action. Yes, yes

In a new release to retailers, Diamond have made the Day-Early Delivery programme official. Which means that all, not some, retailers can qualify for

Harry Enfield played him in the radio adaptations, but television demands a new, and possibly younger face. And Stephen Mangan off of Green Wing, Alan