ashcan Archives

When Image Comics was just starting out, and books were shipping late, they used to keep the reader – and speculator – interest up by putting out ashcans Reduced-size comic books, black and white with a monochrome colour cover, so you would have black on red, black on yellow and the like. eBay listing of Image[...]

And just yesterday a copy sold for just shy of $30 on eBay. Now it seems retailers can order second prints of the Frank Miller Presents ashcans to be sold for $1 each – though retailers will have to pay the usual wholesale amount this time, rather than get them for free And it goes to[...]

And that we would be getting an ashcan showing off the new Ronin Book Two comic book and the Ancient Enemies series by Dan DiDio and Danilo Beyruth, including new Frank Miller character, The Geek. Courtesy of Rob Alpert at FAN Expo Boston, who attended the Frank Miller Presents panel yesterday, Frank Miller announced two new[...]

Boom Studios recently acquired the comic book license to the Magic: The Gathering from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast LLC and in April will be publishing a new comic, Magic, by Jed MacKay, Ig Guara, Arianna Consonni, and Ed Dukeshire. But this week, ahead of that, Boom Studios will be sending one copy of a[...]