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Tonight sees the return of Alan Partridge to the BBC. Steve Coogan's sports reporter-turned-chatshow host character was first created for BBC Radio 4's On

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories read yesterday: DC Comics to End Their

So Olivia Colman, Oscar winner, and a big one too, Best Actress for The Favourite. She was already lining up to be our new National Treasure, this has now

Co-creator of Deadly Class, Rick Remender, let the news slip late last week. A new Deadly Class story from Image Comics, Deadly Class: 1989 DEADLY CLASS:

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

We ran a batch of these yesterday, here's some more comic books picked up by comic book retailers at ComicsPRO in Charlotte, North Carolina, being flipped

Barcodes on comic books used to mostly be seen on newsstand editions of comic books from the seventies, but not for comic store direct market editions.

Tim Fuller has a new series from Source Point Press in May, that appears to be the kind of thing Jude Terror does with comic book unlettered previews,

We haven’t done one of these for a while. But with the observation that DC Comics have reduced the number of titles they are publishing of late, we

We recently ran a piece looking at which companies' registered trademarks DC Comics' lawyers were challenging. To do so, we had to trawl through many

Here are the top 100 comic books and graphic novels ordered by comic book stores in North America through the direct market serviced by Diamond Comic

Over the last year, DC Comics has been publishing an exclusive line of 100 Page Giant Comics through Walmarts- first four a month and recently six a

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories read yesterday: DC Comics Liquidates

The folk at Keenspot Entertainment do love a good parody, and possibly a bad one too. But they keep on keeping on. In May, Rob Potchak and Billy Parker

Once upon a time, Avatar Press published Eric Powell's The Goon as a mini-series. The book only became a real hit a few years later, from Dark Horse

Action Lab is launching two new books in May. The first, Voracious Appetite For Destruction #1 by Jason Muhr, in a world where people hunt dinosaurs in

Just in time to stock up for the arrival of Detective Comics #1000, DC Comics are making their remaining copies of Action Comics #1000 available to comic

It's not the easiest task for retailers to flip their free incentive comic books picked up at ComcisPRO on eBay. You know, while you are actually there.

It was teased on the back cover of DC Rebirth. Before that, it has already been leaked that it would return as a series (though that was delayed rather by

Bleeding Cool reported that original orders for the Absolute Swamp Thing edition had been cancelled - and so it came to pass. But in the new DC Previews,

Mentioned by Diamond Comic Distributors at ComicsPRO in Charlotte, North Carolina, comic book retailers are now able to order more copies of DC Previews -

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

A Writer’s Commentary: David Avallone on Bettie Page #2, on sale this week from Dynamite Entertainment. Say it with me now, you know the drill: if you

Nao Fuji is designing a number of cat variant comic books for Marvel titles out in March. They teased a few panels, but Bleeding Cool has the full covers

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. As ComicsPRO continues in North Carolina, there is

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

Bob Wayne was once a comic book retailer. Then, poacher-turned-gamekeeper, he began working for DC Comics, working with other comic store owners. I have

The Facebook page of Junky Comics of Brisbane in Queensland, gave out the bad news. But there is a silver lining as well. Heya pals! 👋🏽 With a heavy heart

We told you earlier that BOOM! Studios had some big news planned at ComicsPRO and Filip Sablik, their President of Publishing and Marketing, just

Check out these upcoming DC Comics covers for January and February 2019 shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them – but you won’t have seen