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Jim Lee has designed the dress for the Naples Comic Convention held later this year at the end of April and the beginning of May. Lee has spent

Is this exclusive art from an upcoming comic book/graphic novel adaptation of the biggest box office movie of all time, Avatar from James Cameron? A

All the Avengers titles have been cancelled. And the line is getting a revamp the month afterwards. But what, where, who, how, whither? Avengers Academy

Everyone knows that comic book superheroes generally get their superpowers from something radioactive. Well, in the Indian village of Jaduguda . comic

Traditionally Saturday is the busiest day of any comic convention. And it's no different for the world's biggest comic convention, Angoulême. As Cameron

Diamond Comics Distributors has informed comic shops of a major accident involving a delivery truck between Marvel's printers and Diamond's distrubution

SmurfWatch: Okay, Avatar has been accused of swiping everything from Pocohantas and Dances With Wolves to The Word For World Is Forest and Deathworld. But

How many people in the Angoulême bars can you see tonight wearing red Spirou hats? As the drinking begins, here's an earlier look at Angoulême today, all

Dark Horse are releasing a new trade dress for Frank Miller's Sin City shortly... and Frank Miller is giving out sneak peeks of some of the covers from

The Entertainment Tonight clip from before was only the start. Welcome, ladies and gents, to the full trailer for The Losers. And yes, everyone should be

Every year, Angoulême runs a 24 hour comic event for competing comic book creators. . This year's theme was "mute pirate comic" which a) means pirates!

The Angoulême Comics Festival takes over the entire French town, transforming it every year into the world's biggest comics convention. In its 34th year,

The Losers. Based on the reinvented DC comic book by Andy Diggle and Jock, highly anticipated action movie, with chaps like Idris Elba doing their

Okay, we recently ran a piece looking at the language and references used in Batman And Robin #7. But there is still a very strange panel towards the end.

Fantastic Store went well over a decade ago. Oxford's Comic Showcase went a few years ago. And now it's time for Oxford's last standing comic shop to

The auction to name the police character in Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's Nemesis has been sold on eBay for $8400. The winner, not yet identified,

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A. That's the Konami code, used on a number of games to get special cheat abilities or a hidden surprise. It also

So I spent last night in the pub with the likes of Paul Cornell, Kieron Gillen, Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood. Apologies for any subsequent... lethargy.

So you've enjoyed Batman And Robin #7, featuring a run around London's supercriminal backstreets... but did you get every local reference? I'm sure I

Right now the Twilight manga graphic novel is being offered by Amazon.com at 55% off cover price Which is basically the same price shops will pay for it.

So you saw the scoop on The Source yesterday. But how do you go about getting on of these new rings? Well, for a start, if you are a Blackest Night fan,

It can't run Flash. It can't run Photoshop. It's basically a big iTouch. But it could be the biggest change in comic books. So now that people have had a

Yesteday, Tomohiro Kato pleaded guilty on all charges of murder and attempted murder made against him at the Toyko District Court. The murders were

On April 1st 2009, during the G20 meeting in London, there was a public protest and demonstration on the streets outside that, despite the best efforts of

Brian Bendis was recently twittering about a mysterious non-Spider-Man 4 movie project. Looks like it was Fire, an adaptation of his very first crime noir

This is, apparently, how one will read comic books on the Apple iPad, using digital distributor Comixology's tablet application. It is rather snazzy,

Thank goodness for Twitter... Ben McCool: Er, iPad kinda sounds like something futuristic women might put in their underpants... Brian Reed: I cannot

The presentation has concluded. We haven't heard a thing about LongBox, and Rantz Hoseley didn't tweet once. And anyway, the iPad doesn't seem to do

Comic Shop Insider is a weekly giveaway newsprint magazine on comic books. Last week, they ran an interview with Kevin Smith about GReen Hornet. However,

Last year, Diamond Comics Distributors changed their terms, first increasing the minium retail order at which they would deem it acceptable to continue