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An unusual alignment of the calendar and post-52 shipping schedules will apparently leave us with a light new Comic Day on November 30.  It'll be the week

Up on eBay. I love Fred Hembeck.

Grant Morrison is one of the more recognisable bald men in comics The angle of his head, his cheekbones, it's unlikely he'd be mistaken for Brian Bendis, say. But 4chan/co decided that enough was enough And they decided they were going to do their best to rectify the situation… [...]

This has encouraged the "fifth week" special event in the past, though of late Marvel has found it good reason to increase the amount of comics they'll ship in those particular months. But DC has arranged a strict monthly schedule for their new DCU relaunch, with each book getting an allotted week of the month, though[...]

Comics historian Les Daniels (1943-2011) died in Providence, R.I on November 5 of an apparent heart attack  Daniels was the author of numerous books on the history of American comics beginning in 1971 with Comix: A History of the Comic Book in America, and including widely-read histories such as Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of[...]

Knowing how ComiXology likes to withdraw accidental sales of comics that go on sale early, ripping them from your very iPad, I decided to make a back up copy of this comic when I bought it yesterday Looks like I was wise to do so. Much has been made of the eleven artists working on[...]

They've found them in sonograms. Some are using them for educational purposes. teaching English to the Japanese. Others find them a home in cosplay. And

Getting comic book retailers to increase their orders with a series of incentives, then doubling all orders anyway saw comic stores flooded with copies of

Joyce Brabner, comic book creator and widow of Harvey Pekar, is raising money for a memorial to her late husband on Kickstarter. She intends to raise $30,000 to fund a  "Comics as Art & Literature" Desk and Statue for the Cleveland Heights Public Library, where Harvey wrote many of his comics Any extra money raised will[...]

But here we are now, with a really interesting month to dig into… hopefully the fun stats make up for the lateness. DC COMICS Continuing our new format from last month, we're going to run through the monthly numbers all at once In September 2011, DC Comics put out 67 new comic books featuring 502 credited creators,[...]

The fools. Monument in Ohio would show comic writer Pekar stepping out of comic book, widow raising money Joyce Brabner tells The Plain Dealer (http://bit.ly/shJdug ) the bronze statue planned for the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library would celebrate comics as an art form and her late husband's passion for the library He visited almost daily. MARC SILVESTRI[...]

Friend of Bleeding Cool and British comics stalwart Steve Cook has been digging through his old papers And has found a Friends Of Ol' Marvel fanzine from the seventies, with a list of competition entries Including everyone from Marc Silvestri to Tim Sale to S'Express's Mark Moore and, well, Steve Cook… and one current co-Publisher[...]

Mick Anglo died last week, aged 96, Bleeding Cool has confirmed. Novelist and comic book creator in the forties, fifties and sixties, it was his recreation of Captain Marvel as Marvelman for L Miller And Son for which he will be most remembered, an early British superhero character, writing over seven hundred issues of Marvelman, Young[...]

Welcome to Occupy Comics. Some of the biggest names in independent and mainstream comics have come together for a social-networking funded comic book anthology to tell the story of the Occupy Wall Street protest that sidesteps the 24 hour news media's desire for sensationalism. The money raised will pay the creators for their work – and they[...]

There seem to be two contradictory analyses of current comic book mareketplace trends. Once sees DC smashing Marvel's dominance on the marketplace, kicking them into a very lowly second place, and maintaining that grip into the future. The other sees DC's numbers made up of returnable comics, with copies now sitting on shelves, a massive retraction expected[...]

Previewed at the New York Comic Con, here is the first Marvel/Disney crossover with Santa's elves Prep & Landing sent to sort out the gift of giving

In February, Dynamite is publishing Witchblade/Red Sonja #1 by Doug Wagner and drawn by Cezar Razek. They're not saying how they are teaming a New York

For the last few years, the Ultimate Comics line – initially a line that cost less than the standard Marvel comics line – cost more, the $3.99 price point And it's been quite a point of contention, especially after Brian Bendis assured readers it wouldn't happen with a previous Ultimate Spider-Man relaunch… and it did. The[...]

I will try not to invent things to cover for it! As far as I remember, Joe Pruett, who was already a partner on various projects at Caliber comics, asked me if I wanted to do it It was originally published as a serial in the Caliber anthology, Calibrations. KD: What appealed[...]

Welcome to the inaugural Claimbusters column! From the press release from Dynamite Entertainment; After the incredible critical and commercial success of

DailyShowWatch: John Stewart compares Herman Cain's use of the third person to The Hulk… AwardWatch: Stan Lee gets recognised by Hollywood; Lee will receive a special Vanguard award from the Producers Guild in January, and the press release announcing the award claims that he "has exerted more influence over the comic book industry than anyone[...]

Oh and a bit of Buffy. Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen DC Comics Twleve issue threes and two issue twos, the DC relaunch is starting to bed in Which is probably why so many books try to do a little something different this week. How Little Will Your Store Sell Marvel's Point One For? (UPDATE) Marvel did all they[...]

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. This week we take a peek at[...]

UPDATE: As a result of the following article, I understand that the comic in question has been pulled from ComiXology. Hope you got it/read it if you

The less you imply posterity the safer you are; it's much easier to write up, say, the top ten comics of this week than this month or– god help you—this year Trying to write up a list of a hundred of anything noteworthy will at least buy you enough time to run for[...]

IDW published Jack Avarice Is The Courier by Chris Madden last week. Here is their official trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMXAm9KFXiU Are we

I said that the beginning of Defenders #1 reminded me of Sandman. Well pretty much all of Fear Itself #7.2 does. Oh and a bit of Buffy. Now there are

$2.99, 20 pages. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. He's been a silhouette on a number of promotional images He was blurred out on a teaser campiagn But Battle Scars #1 out today from Marvel looks like it's intended to launch a  brand new character into the hearts and minds of the Marvel Universe Soldier[...]

Well, this issue goes beyond Detective Comics #1 To the extent that other creators have been complaining that… that they aren't allowed to do this sort of thing Violence, sexual politics, religion and very bad things happening to people You know, if you want a message from Demon Knights it is that in general, things[...]

But there may be more inventive promotions too. Do let us know how your shop is coping and we'll update through the day. UPDATE 1: Newbury Comics, a regional chain in New England, is giving Point One away for free to its comics newsletter subscribers. UPDATE 2: Heroes Cards Comics and Games in Newnan, GA is selling Point[...]