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I applaud Archie Comics and am a member of the opposing facebook group One Million Moms for JCPenny I have small children, we have homosexuals in our family and none of my children have ever asked questions about it Making a huge deal out of something so stupid is what gets kids curious and confused[...]

If it's not the film, it's the comics, and as Marvel is getting steadily better at coordinating big film and comic releases, that could take the comics market into interesting places in the coming years. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Avengers Vs X-Men Checklist  Given the ordering incentives that Marvel have instigated for Avengers Vs X-Men, its respective crossovers,[...]

I met JK Woodward at the London Super Comic Convention last weekend. And once I established that he hadn't done the Fallen Angel cover that featured in

This is the latest in a series of promotional covers created by Boom! to encourage retailers to experiment by ordering large on certain titles, in return

Today, Valiant Entertainment announced a new Harbinger series to join XO Manowar and Bloodshot. You can see a preview below, it's by Joshua Dysart and

It's easy as One Two Three… as well as a preview of Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein Alive, Westfield Comics also have the first few pages of John Byrne's new superhero series from IDW, Trio… It's easy as One Two Three… as well as a preview of Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein[...]

Al Ewing, author of Ninjettes for Dynamite, writes about the first issue of the series, taking it down page by page. We have some pages, you may want a

Here's an ad from Midtown Comics from a while ago [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6juw273IT2o&lc[/youtube] And here's the new ad made for Jay And Bob's Secret Stash as seen on AMC's Comic Book Men [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN2RZNMwk04[/youtube] In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5OSoJS0OrA Grace Randolph says "Wondering how to become a comic book artist? Host Grace Randolph talks to comic book

Here's an interesting comparison. When ordering comic books for Free Comic Book Day, although customers and passers by get the comics for free, the retailers have to pay for them, often around twenty-five cents each They are there for outreach, to recruit customers, to invite lapsed customers back, and maybe while they are there upsell them[...]

Also, there are a ridiculous number of charts as we look at 2011 in review. DC COMICS The overall total was decent but the breakdowns were pretty bad at DC this month In December 2011, DC Comics released 83 new books featuring 646 credited creators, 574 men and 72 female Here are their stats: Their overall average was[...]

We already reported on some of the swag retailers who attend the Chicago Diamond Summit before C2E2 will be getting. Well here are three more to make the

It took the global recession to make this comic happen. Writer Gordon Mclean took his redundancy cheque and, along with selling off his Playstation games

Gorillaz' Jamie Hewlett, Tamara Drewe's Posy Simmonds, Roald Dahl's Quentin Blake and The Guardian's Martin Rowson are talking comics and illustration at the British Library's Spring Festival, in concordance with the Late At The Library: Illuminate! exhibition Jamie will be talking, amongst other things, about Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy's Skin. No I'm not going[...]

Given the ordering incentives that Marvel have instigated for Avengers Vs X-Men, its respective crossovers, and the six figure numbers ordered by retailers, it shouldn't be too hard to find a copy of the comics if that's what you're interested in. But just so you can keep track, here's the Avengers Vs X-Men checklist so you[...]

Thanks to Daniel Best who pulled out a bunch of legal papers on the Neil Gaiman/Todd McFarlane case over owed moneys, showing that as part of the lawsuit,

    Look at that image above. Doesn't it want to make you lick your lips? Well, maybe if it was portrayed in icing on top of a cake you might

When I was a teenager reading American comics, and had finally discovered this thing called a comic shop in the nearby town of Leeds (it is now a hairdressing salon) I was delighted when certain Marvel titles went biweekly More comics! Of course, I suddenly needed more money, which I didn't always have, and then[...]

It launches at Gosh Comics in London on March 10th. Here's a look at examples from both There's not a lot of crossover.           In the American corner, Leaping Tall Buildings by Seth Kushner and Christopher Irving, a series of photographs and short essays profiling some of the greatest classic and modern comic book[...]

iFanboy reports, from an interview with Jonathan Hickman carried out at Image Comics Expo, that he will be leaving Fantastic Four at the end of the year along with wrapping up The Ultimates and SHIELD With news that Bendis is leaving Avengers, and his stating that his next project will be "so much more" than[...]

Because customers beat them to it by buying the comic. Life With Archie #16 has sold out from Archie Comics John Goldwater, co-CEO of Archie Comics, already gaining praise from his comments regarding the Million Mom appeal, is quoted as saying "Kevin will always be a major part of Riverdale, and we're overjoyed, honored and humbled[...]

The TPB collection of Image Comics' The Marksman will contain a new four page prologue by Dave Elliott that didn't appear in the original series, out next month And here are two pages of it… Based on real life economic hardships, MARKSMEN takes place in dystopian world just one step removed from our own[...]

I understand from someone with access to such figures, that Marvel Comics have received more preorders for Avengers Vs X-Men #1 than they did for Civil War #1 It looks as if, for the direct market, AvX #1 will be the best selling comic for 2012. Marvel have bet the farm on this one Buying advertising,[...]

Warning, reading this post may spoil your enjoyment of The Twelve #10. It may also spoil your lunch. You have been warned. Chris Weston is an artist known

Sara Pichelli's work on Runaways was much loved but it was her work on Ultimate Spider-Man with Brian Bendis that pushed her into the A-list. But now they

We've all become familiar with the X-O Manowar "talking" posters and cover, using the iPhone to create a talking narrative from the central character. And

Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a different point of view and get instant feedback from real customers on New Comics Day, as we literally corner them and and ask questions about comic books and related topics Unscripted, reality CC. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD6OijbHTQ0[/youtube]With Avengers Versus X-Men on the horizon, this week we ask[...]

And the drug dealer would get the comics for around 1/10 of the street price Both were happy, until the speculator market collapsed If only the government had tried fostering a market in collectible heroin, it could have destroyed that industry far more effectively And drug use would have gone way down, as people wanted[...]

JoeWatch: The return of the Joe Palooka strip after 18 years… PanWatch: The Calgary Herald discovers Peter Panzerfaust. PornWatch: Comics Alliance celebrates the pornography of Valentina. EagleWatch: The Eagle Awards gives Bleeding Cool a website nomination. Yeah, yeah, but Comic Book Resources will still win Again. CardWatch: The Transformers Fan Club gets credit card… issues[...]

Here's a sketch of Silk Spectre by Amanda Conner, the character she'll be drawing in the upcoming Before Watchmen books. And here is Amanda actually