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It's sort of a comic industry version of the Da Vinci Code: one of the oldest and most powerful organizations in comics with a long-forgotten book hidden away in their vaults, one of the industry's leading writer-historians has it sneaked out to try to unravel its meaning. …So Marston had all these ideas and it[...]

Here is a sixteen minute runaround New York Comic Con before it opened today. http://vimeo.com/30521428 It suddenly got a lot fuller...

Along with hundreds of comic book artists, Kevin Maguire has a table in Artists Alley at New York Comic Con, where he is selling original artwork. Buy it

Title: Epic #1 Creators: Tyler James (story) and Matt Zolman (art), with Vic Moya (inks) and Arsia Rozegar (color) Publisher: ComixTribe Available: Booth

Title: NOBODIES, Volume 1 Creators: Ed Brisson, Ray Bruwelheide, Cairns, Richard S. Carbonneau, Leo Castaneda, Anat Even-Or, Habbenink, Renee Keyes,

Title: Buffalo Speedway Creator: Yehudi Mercado Available: SuperMercado Comics Small Press Table #3048 High Concept: The day is June 17th 1994 Today the Rockets will battle the Knicks in the NBA Finals, America will host the World Cup and OJ Simpson will lead the LAPD on a slow speed chase A perfect storm of events, keeping a nation[...]

At the New York Comic Con Retailer's Breakfast, courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, Dark Horse confirmed the Bleeding Cool story that Brain Wood and

DC promised us some big New 52 creator announcements this week, and here's an interesting one indeed: Fan-favorite creator Ann Nocenti will be taking over as writer for GREEN ARROW in DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 – her first ongoing series for DC Comics Nocenti has previously written for such iconic DC Comics characters as Batman, Poison[...]

It's still all setting up time at the New York Comic Con... here are some booth shots, some from 9am, some from just before 1pm... (now updated with later

This year, Diamond have been promoting a bunch of cheap mini-comics for kids from a number of publishers, to give or sell cheap to kids duting Hallowe'eb season. But next year, it goes big time At the New York Comic Con Retailer's Breakfast, courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, Diamond announced that Hallowe'en 2012 will see comic[...]

DC Comics have been selling print/digital combo packs of Justice League #1 for $4.99, giving readers a print copy of the comic and a digital order code, for $1 more than the print price. At the New York Comic Con Retailer's Breakfast, courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, DC Comcsi announced that in January, DC will extend[...]

At the New York Comic Con Retailer's Breakfast, courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, Dark Horse Comics announced a new Star Wars ongoing series, Dawn Of The Jedi, with issues 0 and 1 launching in February 2012, described as their coolest Star Wars comic ever Written by John Ostrander, it will start at the beginning of[...]

DC made most of their DC relaunch books returnable for a small fee, for the first four months of the relaunch, allowing retailers the ability to stock

DC Vertigo announced that they were adapting the Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson as a series of graphic novels, two per novel, running through the next few years. Well, it appears the project may have originated, or the production is being shared, with French Publisher Dupuis. The publisher has announced that French comics creators Sylvain Runberg, writer[...]

In an interview conducted at the Edinburgh Festival, Grant Morrison talked a lot about comics, superheroes, life and fiction He also touched on Wonder Woman and her creator William Moulton Marston, and Grant's plans for her Here are a few extracts from the transcribed interview. So him and his wife had a lover called Olive Byrne,[...]

It's called Buy Me! It's a preview of a bunch of upcoming collections of recent new Image Comics books It has sales information for retailers and tease information for customers But it is not an official Image Comics sales tool. Not officially, anyway That would need approval, signoff and consideration, and New York Comic Con is[...]

DC have released a bunch of sales statistics… so far. That they have sold of more than 5 million copies of the DC Relaunch comics in only six weeks, which averages out at around 75,000 for each comic. That JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 has sold more than 250,000 copies. That ACTION COMICS #1 and BATMAN #1 have both sold[...]

HangoverWatch: Urrrghhh... it was possibly a mistake to start drinking with Si Spurrer fairly shortly after we landed in New York, then meeting the rest

When DC hinted just a few days ago that we should expected major creator announcements during NYCC, one presumes that today's rumor wasn't quite what they

DC Comics declined to comment. The hottest rumour burning down the pre-NYCC parties is that Gail Simone, co-writer of DC Relaunch title  Fury Of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men with Ethan Van Sciver, has walked off the comic. The reason being given by the Manhattan tittle tattlers is over editorial conflicts over the book, the kind of[...]

Title: Dead Man's Run #0 Creators: Greg Pak, Gale Ann Hurd, Tony Parker and Peter Steigerwald Publisher: Aspen Comics Available: Booth #1246 High concept: From acclaimed "Hulk" writer Greg Pak, legendary "Walking Dead" producer Gale Ann Hurd, and Tony Parker, penciller of the Eisner-nominated "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, comes this winter's biggest blockbuster new series ­ DEAD[...]

Title: Killing Pickman Creators: Jason Becker, Jon Rea, Matt Talbot Available: Booth #1546 High concept: William Zhu is a homicide detective that has just

Title: THE RED TEN #1 Creators: Tyler James (story) and Cesar Feliciano (art) with Miguel Marques (colors) and Charles Paul Wilson III (cover) Publisher:

Titles: The Gathering Volume 5 (Romance) and Volume 6 (Horror 2) and Ever After 1 Creators: Sterling Gates, Doug Hahner, Cassandra James, Brenda Lopez, Glenn Matchett, Amanda Rachels, Len Wallace, and dozens of up and coming writers and artists/ Matt O'Keefe and Lee Giles Publisher: GrayHaven Comics High Concept: What started as an experiment over a year ago[...]

Are you coming to NYCC? Want to get in comics? Might you consider Avatar as part of that? Editor in Chief, William Christensen and Managing Editor, Jim Kuhoric will be accepting submissions at New York Comic Con from 10am to 11am on the Sunday of the show While they won't be going through the books[...]

Title: SCAM #1 Creators: Joe Mulvey (story and art) Publisher: ComixTribe Available: Booth #2537 (Small Press Area) High concept: Super powers are great

He left after the first arc and the second arc… faded away. But this week, in Batwoman #2, there's a rather familiar sight lurking in the background in one of William's trademarks double page spreads. Not only that but there seem to be a few familiar comic book creators milling around there as well… Comics courtesy of Orbital[...]

As well as a continuous case of deja vu... Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. Kieron Gillen's final issue of Generation Hope is a whopping 25 pages for $2.99 While his X-Men Regenesis #1 is a whopping 34 pages at $3.99 How are they bucking the current Marvel price points? Well, by time share By using[...]

Well, this week I've got a COLOR preview of those pages AND a special announcement– we're going to have fifty copies of THE BEAUTY #1 brought in exclusively for NYCC! DC Universe: The Source — Archive of This Week's New 52 Previews Below, take a look at all the previews that ran (sorted alphabetically and separated[...]

Quite some time ago, Harris published a book called Vampirella Vs Dracula: The Centennial. Which contained, amongst stories by Warren Ellis and Mark