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Steve Bissette helps launch the Vermont Monster Guide he illustrated - with pictures of the event at the Centre Of Cartoon Studies here. The next events

I'm getting repeated reports of more redundancies at McFarlane Toys. I'm told that a number of people have gone from accounting, including the department

Who wears the Watchmen? Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's superhero opus comes to Hallowe'en this year. But the question is, will anyone do a full on Doctor

How did Gears of War get those reported massive sales outside of the direct market? The announcement that DC/Wildstorm are creating a comic series based

Is this the final word on Misney? Time Warp Comics in Colorado celebrates its own time warp, twenty-five years in business. Jake Tinsley is the 14 year

See, all you need to get your comic book coverage in USA Today is be a rock star. That's how you break into comics... Want to draw a Stan Lee Graphic

Could this be a giant Josh Hoopes size trap? Design/printer owner George Horch is opening a new comic store, Atomic Comics, in mid town Sacramento. He

Taking the girls to the Notting Hill Carnival today. Should be lots of fun. So expect a little less posting today. Come on, which other comics reportage

I'm reminded how weird it was to watch official-looking people pleading to get into the Radical Comics party at San Diego Comic Con. I walked up and heard

Saw Lucky Soul and The Pipettes play last night at The Lexington in Islington, London. Yes, I was basically in an issue of Phonogram for a few hours. And

Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman, writers of the X-Men Misfits manga from Del Rey of X-Men: Misfits held a live chat on the publisher's website. Raina:

Looking for a funky, yet cheap way to display your Green Lantern promotional chunky plastic rings in an attractive, even classy fashion? May I suggest

Is Logan a Wolverine... or should he be called Newt instead? This amphibian sticks its sharp bones out through its skin to attack predators. Snikt, baby,

Ian Rankin in to launch the first of the new Vertigo crime graphic novels, Dark Entries, featuring Vertigo stalwart John Constantine investigating

Puffin books adapt the popular Bengali detective better known as Pradosh Chandra Mitter, Feluda, created by Satyajit Ray into graphic novels, the first

Today may be a little on the slow side... I'm (not)  off to Caption, the small press comics convention in Oxford, for a quiet Sunday. Still, I'll have a

Naturally, because I live in Britain, I've been asked about the American healthcare system and whether some system of socialised health care should be

Courtesy of Chicago and a couple of Marvel Anniversary parties at Barnes And Noble, this is what a few Marvellous comic book creators may be up to in the

Friday. I used to look forward to Fridays. But now it's all, palm kids off onto their grandparents, go to the bank, post office and supermarket, teach

With eBay bids for Stuff Of Legend #1 topping $15, the Art Of Chew hitting $79 Comics for Boom!, comics for Archaia, Jim Henson will also see PBS

So I'm sitting here, drinking Gaynors cider, the children are asleep, watching Man On Wire. The night is drawing in, the last of the sun's rays stroking

Eleven year old girl: "If you were a teacher, what would you teach?" David Tennant: "English" Crowd: "Sex Ed!" So I woke today at noon. Janice has started

Dave Dorman twitters Gee. I sure wish the Dabel Bros. would pay me the $1k they owe me for the cover I did for them, which they just reprinted in a

What have I learnt today? Well, USA Today have printed the second page of their Wednesday Comics Superman chapter. The New York Daily News promotes

It's a day of casting - Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Gary Oldman and Ian McShane are to star in Pretty, Baby, Machine adapted from the 2008 gangster

Friday's schedule for San Diego Comic Con is released. And it's the conflicts that always define who you are. Will you go to the spotlight on Mike Allred

Chorion, the company that has already bought up the rights to Noddy and Mr Men has announced they have now bought the licensing rights to Dan Dare. The

As predicted, Wednesday Comics hits the headlines as the New York Daily News splashed on the new oversized weekly series from DC Comics, quoting Dan DiDio

The Guardian newspaper disappoints with lazy sterotypical headline "Comic-book economics and the markets" which is not about the $3.99 price point or

Or Happy Indulgent Rebellious Stepchild Nation Day as we refer it it over here. Am I really doing a Twitter runaround on this? Yes, yes I am. But why