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Last week, while the US government shutdown was still ongoing with no end in sight, owner of Cloud City Comics, Games And Toys of Pennsylvania posted the

Dynamite Entertainment is doing a new digital Humble Bundle deal, from $1 to $18, and if you pay the latter, handing you almost 10,000 pages worth of

Comic Universe of Darby, Pennsylvania will celebrate its 40th birthday in February - but it will be its last. Owner Frank Link, now in his seventies, is

The Cat variant covers are coming from Marvel (only a couple of years after Valiant). But beating them to the punch is a new genre of Side Of The Van

Andy Stanleigh of Alternate History Comics writes, We are honoured, humbled and, let’s face it, enthralled to be producing Volume 3 of MOONSHOT The

We will always have a lot of time for Scott Dunbier. Comic book art dealer-turned-Editor-in-Chief at Wildstorm, before and after they were bought out by

Last week, we looked at the numbers of comic books that DC Comics are shipping and note that they were publishing around half the number of titles in

More Detective Comics #1000 exclusive retailer variants popping out. To follow the ones we ran here, here and here. A Detective Comics #1000 retailer

I cannot express just how much I love Jamie Colville. A man who number-crunches comics far beyond my humble ability--or patience. He has spent the year so

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five most-read stories yesterday Blizzard Randomly

It's the biggest comic book convention in the Western World: Angouleme, taking place in Angouleme France. And there is plenty to see... here's a quick

The responsibilities of social media are running around media circles and headlines right now, as well as questions asked in Parliament and on The One

We gave you some Detective Comics #1000 exclusive retailer variant covers yesterday - and today here are some more, and some new takes on previous

Leviathan, the comic book series by John Layman and Nick Pitarra, published last year from Image Comics, appears to have hit the schedule skids somewhat.

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Anthony E. Zuiker is the creator of the popular TV franchise CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Once upon a time, I was killed off in the CSI: Dying In The

This autumn sees the release of Alan Moore's first movie, The Show. Plenty of movies have been made of his work including From Hell, Watchmen, V For

Thanks to Amazon, we have a look at the Kevin O'Neill cover to the collected League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Book Four: The Tempest. And it has a

We highlight Frank Miller's birthday today but he shares it with so many other big comics industry names too... Five most read stories yesterday Blizzard

Frederator Studios is one of the largest animation studios in North America, founded by MTV creative director and Hanna Barbera President Fred Seibert in

Coming from Keenspot Entertainment in April...a mashup of Donald Trump and The Batman Who Laughs character created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. I do

I mean...okay, if you're going to bait copyright and trademark infringements, this would be the way to do it. And for the very last issue of The League Of

This is one of the weirdest Jim Lee variant covers we've come across. Appearing on the variant cover to Cover #6 by David Mack and Brian Bendis, in a

Marc Jackson writes, A month before Christmas, I decided to create an all-ages comic that was designed to be a youngsters first comic book. Comics can be

Well, we ran the Mike Mayhew exclusive cover for Detective Comics #1000 from Comic Mint. So we thought we'd have a look at who else has revealed

IDW Have let folk know about an upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog spinoff series now that they have the publishing rights to the Sony character. And in April,

Comic online retailer The Comic Mint posted about their upcoming exclusive cover to Detective Comics #1000. In honor of Batman’s 80th anniversary we are

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Five most read stories yesterday DC Comics Cancels

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday, a weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the demands of

Matthew Snyder writes Welcome to the Comixology Bestseller list, your guide to see how well your favorite titles are selling digitally. Every week I'll