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At the Awesome Arizona Comic Con, Scott Lobdell and Rob Liefeld took to the stage for a rather entertaining hour (with a special guest star in Robert

It wasn't long ago I heard that Chris Powell, manager of Lone Star Comicsand MyComicShop.com was to take a specific senior position in the comic book industry I didn't run the story because talking to the company in question, it just wasn't true Loks like the source may have got the story right, but the[...]

Ivory Madison is a singer, writing network creator, comic fan and writer of DC's Huntress: Year One series from 2008. And also, it seems, principle in

DC  Comics has confirmed the story that crime thriller writer Denise Mina and Batman Noel artist Leonardo Manco will be adapting the Vertigo graphic novel version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, also mentioning that Lee Bermejo has done the cover (above) and Andrea Mutti will also be on art. Mina has already talked about[...]

Whether by working on Warrior Magazine, creating publisher Atomeka and A1 publications, developing comics at Radical and standing behind a new line of comics at Image. But now the sister is doing it for himself. Dave Elliott is writing his own graphic novel, Odyssey, drawn by Gary Gastonny, artist on Lady Death and Supergod for Avatar/Boundless and[...]

Published by DC Comics, The Shadow: Blood And Judgement by Howard Chaykin was originally published in the eighties, alongside other revisionist comics such as Watchmen and The Dark Knight It was last collected in 1991 Twenty-one years later, Dynamite – the current license holders of The Shadow – are bringing it back into print. And Dynamite[...]

Built-in newsreels from the time period are scattered throughout the story, as are historical vignettes, character rosters and declassified CIA documents, all presented through an elegant interface with a completely original score. MuseumWatch:  The Rockwell Museum of Western Art will showcase Comic Art Indigne, an exhibit about the influence of visual comics on contemporary Native American[...]

 Today from DC we have word of New 52 changes — 6 books in, 6 books out, and sure to be much more detail to come on all of it.   Most-Read Comic Stories Today: DC Comics To Cancel OMAC, Men Of War, Mister Terrific, Hawk And Dove, Blackhawks and Static Shock As part of the six new May [...]

Marvel are announcing that a bunch of key comics are going to second print Not that they have necessarily sold out of course, or perhaps not quite yet But there will be second prints with a new cover and a new collectability! So we have second prints of Scarlet Spider #1, Avengers Annual #1, Avengers: X-Sanction[...]

  Colossus Vs The Thing, I can see. Gambit vs Spider-Woman, there's some energy power similarity. But Archangel Vs Daredevil... is that really a fair

That's until Ariel Olivetti chose to talk about Marvel and the American comics industry to an Argentinian magazine published recently. Here are certain highlights, translated (do let us know if you can offer a better translation) You were working until now Iron Man 2.0, which was cancelled and a lot of readers didn't expect to be ended… Luckily[...]

There's also a lot more diversity that compared to the Top 500 Comics Of The Year, with plenty of companies able to go up against Marvel and DC, and in Image's case, beat them. Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in Calendar Year 2011 QTY RANK DOLLAR RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR 1 5 WALKING DEAD TP VOL 01 DAYS GONE BYE $9.99 IMA 2 1 WALKING DEAD TP VOL[...]

There are companies doing things other than DC Comics, apparently. In April, Dynamite will be publishing Merciless – The Rise Of Ming #1, the first issue of a new series that's a prequel to the current Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist comic, looking at Ming's coming of age and struggle to gain power, from a simple Prince to[...]

The Times Herald calls it the world's largest online comic book store Not sure how Mile High Comics would stack up against that, but NewKadia does have a lot of comic books for sale Nearly a million. The paper outlines his shift for a small comic collector, to finding that he could make a profit buying and[...]

I can't recommend DKR to the parent of a little kid who has the potential to get hooked on comics and provide a lifetime of sales to the industry. Someone said recently that comics have always been subversive I think right now; in this world of escalating statism, mandatory multicultural indoctrination and environmentalism running amok… conservative[...]

We know how well the top selling comics of 2011 did But what about the rest? Here is a look at the top 500 selling comics in 2011 break down DC dominates the top hundred, but Marvel gets its own back later down the list No one gets a look into the Top Hundred except[...]

I've heard the clamours, I've heard the calls, here is what is shipping to comic stores next Wednesday… Dark Horse CONAN HC VOL 11 ROAD OF KINGS PT 1 CONAN ROAD OF KINGS #12 MASS EFFECT INVASION #4 DC Comics ANIMAL MAN #2 2ND PTG BATMAN #5 BATMAN ODYSSEY VOL 2 #4 BIRDS OF PREY #5 BLUE BEETLE #5 CAPTAIN ATOM #5 CATWOMAN #5 DC UNIVERSE PRESENTS #5 DIABLO[...]

Channel 4 News last night interviewed Alan Moore, and took him to meet the Occupy London demonstrators for the first time at St Paul's Cathedral. And he

I've been quite open about saying that Men Of War was one of my favourites of the New 52, even though it was not much loved. I wasn't blown away by the

Batman: Leviathan Strikes collected the final two issues of what would have been the end of Batman Incorporated, before a stretched schedule and the

We knew that Justice Society by James Robinson and Nicola Scott, set in the DC parallel universe Earth Two, was coming. What we didn't know until today

As part of the six new May  books being announced today, DC Comics has also announced six cancellations, all ending on their eighth issues Men Of War, Mister Terrific, O.M.A.C., Hawk And Dove, Blackhawks and Static Shock. While none of the titles have performed in a stellar fashion, Hawk And Dove was doing better than a[...]

Bobbie Chase, Scott Lobdell, Rob Liefeld, all we were waiting for was Bob Harras to hire Howard Mackie and Terry Kavanagh for a nineties Marvel revival at DC Comics. Well, Terry Kavanagh is busy elsewhere. But now USA Today reveals that Howard Mackie has been hired by DC Comics along with another nineties favourite, Ian Churchill to[...]

"Swamp Thing with machine guns" is how one DC Comics executive described it to me. But now British fantasy horror writer and leftwing activist China Miéville is to write his first ongoing comic, one of six new DC New 52 titles launching in May Dial H, based on the sixties DC comic Dial H for Hero[...]

See that's what happens when you go own the pub. Stuff happens. Yesterday in the Marvel Liveblogs, they announced that in April, Captain America &

Oh and the upcoming Bill Gates cover while they are at it. Gates appears to (1) Not look like Bill Gates, and (2) be leaning on a microwave oven. PageWatch: PopMatters picks up the debate on print-to-digital and how it affects the reading process for comics. What de Campi's and Larsen's experiment highlights is that digital is a[...]

Marvel sweeps the top spots today with a trio of unrelated tidbits. I'm curious to see where the Marcus Johnson mystery goes in particular, because if

Scotland is the home of many of Britain's most prestigious comics, specifically The Beano and The Dandy, both running for almost eighty years. But a more recent publication is causing problems for some newsagents. And now shopkeepers could be fined if they don't keep comics away from the likes of Maxim, GQ, Loaded, FHM, Nuts and Zoo,[...]

Seriously, I'm sat in the pub and I just fancy getting all the people here to stand round in a circle going "Fight! Fight! Fight!" until teacher breaks us

Vertigo will preview their four new books for March in a comic shipping in February. The Vertigo 2012 Preview Book will be send, for free, to retailers