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And from others that DC, by extending their returnability terms, continues to create a false market, pointing to acres of comics being returned on their less popular titles, as yet unaccounted for by the statistics. But everyone seems to be playing the statistics game right now Diamond Comic Distributors report monthly figures for the industry, showing[...]

Archie Comics has been through a number of changes of late By launching a Riverdale series with a gay male lead, and putting a same sex wedding on the cover of Life With Archie, they've rapidly become the most openly progressive mainstream comics publisher. But would they really also republish Brian Bendis' graphic novel Jinx, a[...]

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool showed you thumbnail cover images of all the Marvel comics for April Or so we thought. See, Marvel are issuing a bunch of Avengers alternative variant covers for a bunch of books in April, showing Avengers through the ages Literally, through the Ages, portrayed in many artistic styles mirroring the likes[...]

Nevertheless, the images above are how Mudman creator Paul Grist and friend of the site Mo Ali would redesign the DC Comics logo… Later this week on Bleeding Cool, (I hope), in the light of allegations made against co-CEO Nancy Silberkeit of Archie Comics, a look into other bad behaviour from those who have run the[...]

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool discovered that Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Image Comics founder Rob Liefeld's collaborative book for Image, The Infinite, had been cancelled, as neither party was willing to move forward on the book as the other wished it. Creative differences were blamed, with Rob Liefeld citing plans to use an inker[...]

Marvel's definitely stepped it up this autumn, while DC's remained fairly steady. DC COMICS While DC is up a smidge from October, the breakdowns by category are sort of disheartening, particularly in terms of the gigs that get your name on the cover In November 2011, DC Comics released 82 new comics featuring 634 credited creators, 563[...]

Including Ivan Brunetti, Ryan Knighton, Dan Chaon and Chris Ware. Creator of thirty year long Ernie Pook's Comeek strip, Lynda has adapted comics to the stage, written books, writed for Esquire and Mother Jones, and turns up on Letterman. Barry will teach What It Is: Manually Shifting the Image concerning the "relationship of the hand to images,[...]

It gets sweaty inside Iron Man's armour. Thor's jockstrap reeks. I just don't ask what happens to the Hulk's glands when he gets angry. From Jads

Anyone seen it? No jokes about Cloud computing, please. ImmigrationWatch: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, in cooperation with the English Department at OSU, is bringing attention to the topic in their four-part series, "Immigration in Comics." Where the first segment, "Immigration in Comics," focused on the early 20th century migration of Japanese immigrants to the[...]

    It's been pointed out that Portland may have the greatest number of cartoonists and comic book creators per capita than anywhere else. So

Potato Comics is publishing Xeric winning small press title Freedom by Seamus Heffernan in April, now distributed by Diamond Comic Distribution. Set during the American Revolution, it's a rather impertinent look at a history that some Americans hold sacrosanct. For a start, it stars a teenager living in a Massachusetts that lost the American Revolution, and remains under British[...]

Say you have an awesome idea for a comic book... where do you begin? The knee jerk reaction would be to start drawing... or writing a story. Stop! Ask

Again, much thanks to Midtown's database for this one. You've already seen Marvel's April 2012 solicitations - albeit with the credits of March. Well, now

As the comics industry comes to grips with what will be coming to stores in April and May, there is one book likely to smash sales record that's not from the New 52, or an Avengers Vs X-Men tie in. Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother is her follow up to Fun Home, and has a[...]

It is outrageous that it was I who appear, as people who burned my house were released," Nabil el-Karoui told reporters. GraphicNovelWatch: Healthcare Reform jumps into no 3 in the New York Times paperback graphic novel bestseller list. StockWatch: Darrin Williams of Comics Envy, Asheville talks about the comics he sells and why. With the indie stuff, there's[...]

I think John Layman speaks for us all on this matter when he posted in the BC forum in response to the story about Rob Liefeld and Robert Kirkman's The

Now I'm re-discovering the appeal of working with a variety of inkers. The Infinite is a time travel action comic in the nineties style created by Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman specifically for Rob Liefeld that launched from Kirkman's Skybound imprint of Image Comics at last year's San Diego Comic Con in a European hardcover format,[...]

So I'm getting my six year old daughter a subscription to a new comic book she's been reading. Not by Marvel, DC, Archie, not from the staples of DC

Here are the solicitations. Bart Simpson's pal Milhouse takes center stage in the next of our series of Simpsons Comics One-Shots Take a look at the world of Springfield through the eyes of Bart's bespectacled best friend, second banana, and juvenile delinquent wannabe, and the fantastical things you see through his thick lenses might surprise you. And[...]

But before writing about Mayan sacrifice and man-on-dog sex, he wrote Fraggle Rock comics. Quite a jump. And in April he's writing a new ongoing series for Boom!, Fanboys Vs Zombies, drawn by Jerry Gaylord Humberto Ramos draws the cover for the first issue, costing just a dollar Here's the solicitation text. One is a decrepit mob of[...]

The actor doesn't deliver his lines in his full-on Voldemort voice, because he's too amused by the material.   'Judge Dredd' creator: Three reasons I'm excited about new film | Hero Complex – movies, comics, fanboy fare – latimes.com Today he's more rounded, more human, a man capable of introspection, of questioning his own beliefs[...]

From Midtown Comics in Times Square, New York, Grace Randolph and Alan Kistler discuss Catwoman and the Fox 5 News of Washington DC's report that labelled it pornography, for the Think About The Ink vblog, Between The Pages. Naturally, they are not totally 100% on Fox's side. UPDATE: The video has been pulled in the years since[...]

Courtesy of Midtown Comics, here are the Marvel solicitations for April 2012 Ish For monthly comics at least. There seem to be a few glitches that need ironing out concerning credits, which seem to preserve March's details, but the solicitation listings do give a few interesting revelations… such as Jason Aaron leaving Wolverine with #304 and[...]

Or from his 2000AD and Judge Dredd comics Maybe from his Bleeding Cool column or his Remake/Remodel missions on Whitechapel Even for his Warhammer novels, his Gutsville comic with Frazer Irving… or maybe you've mistaken him for Si Spencer. Either way, his second crime novel, A Serpent Uncoiled is out in paperback, and he'd rather like this[...]

"The superhero who suggested that all this fighting was just silly and everyone should just kiss and make up." Or the cover to Wolverine And The X-Men #9 from April, one of three Wolverine And The X-Men titles shipping that month. This April, as the Marvel Universe waits on baited breath for the arrival of the all-powerful[...]

The book's artist Scott McDaniel is credited for writing the subsequent two issues before Marc Bernadin was lined up for the final two comics in the series. Today, in the comments on a piece by Danny Donovan lamenting the cancellation of Static Shock, John Rozum wrote; Static definitely had the best potential of all DC Superheroes of[...]

April brings many delights. But one specifically appears to be a soft backed version of The Pterodactyl Hunters In The Gilded City by Brendan Leach, printed a few years ago in newspaper format. Winner of a Xeric Award, the original was Brendan's master thesis at the School of Visual Arts, telling the story of two brothers who[...]

Thank you for your time and attention! Funded so far: $1937 of $3000 with 30 days to go Best reward: $750 – Everything in the $300 pledge level, plus an ASSOCIATE PRODUCER credit during the opening titles of the GRAPHIC STORYTELLING DVD as well as on the outer DVD packaging and on the web series home page. Pitch: [...]

This is for digital comics Actual digital comics, rather than scans of ink placed on thin slices of dead trees. It's infinite canvas time.       Making your own digital comic for worldwide distribution on iOS And by digital, I mean with all the bells and whistles Panel by panel guide, animation, sounds, the lot, courtesy of iBooks[...]

There was one time when Ron Perazza was consider one of the most powerful up and coming comics employees, DC's digital expert and founder of their now-abandoned Zuda Comics line He then was appointed Vice President of Online, managing DC's move to digital comics through comiXology He was once tipped by some people for the[...]