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We also look at the New York Times graphic novel bestsellers over the past year and see how their numbers stack up against the Big Two. DC COMICS There was a nice uptick for DC this month overall, and some good showings by category as well In August 2013, DC released 73 new comics featuring 663 credited[...]

So, the original X-Men Legacy comic (the then-retitled X-Men/New X-Men comic) ended with issue 275. The new X-Men Legacy comic written by Si Spurrier ends

Your contributions are greatly appreciated and will help us maintain the site, get new equipment, and encourage us to keep going on those cold lonely nights. Chris Thompson's Twitter: @popculturehound Orbital Comics' website: www.orbitalcomics.com Ulises Farinas' Twitter: @ulises_f Ulises Farinas' website: ulisesfarinas.com Erick Freitas' Twitter: @ScriptPit Erick Freitas' website: scriptpit.com And you can check out Ulises' original concept art for Gamma (as[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GXp8tmcaiw[/youtube] Recorded last night at Orbital Comics The exhibition runs well into November Here are some close ups – but seeing the art in person is so much better. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GXp8tmcaiw[/youtube] Recorded last night at Orbital Comics The exhibition runs well into November[...]

I'm taking my girls and one of the eldest's friends to the show – and we'll probably be going by cable car! This evening, Orbital Comics is putting on the film Better Things about the life of artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones, and I understand a number of his contemporaries may be in the audience Orbital Comics[...]

Obviously Ales Kot started it off, based on a possibly erroneous report of a comics retailer ripping up a copy of Pretty Deadly But Brandon Graham was there to carry it on It's possible Brian Wood should stop reading now. @ales_kot and and maybe some talk of being honest about people's work and what goes[...]

In Hannibal Tabu's latest column, The Buy Pile, at CBR, he reported; The retailer at Comics Ink made the case that "Pretty Deadly" #1 has superseded "The Monarchy" as the worst comic ever The case that was made was that this comic combined "psycho babble, [being] pretentious, bad writing and meandering." While it has only one[...]

Whether it was ever in possession of a museum we don't know, but as many collectors know, museums de-accession pieces all the time. As to how the photo of Al with the art came about: As many of you already know, all of us in the comics dept., in addition to just working there, are huge comic[...]

Troy Akridge and Trent Pitts write; Nashville, Tennessee is known as the “Music City.” You can walk down Broadway past the legendary honkytonks and pass

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! As well[...]

I think it says it all, though it might be worth going here for further illumination. She made the event a call to action for women who want to work in comics to get on with it She has a point Every month, Bleeding Cool runs Gendercrunching articles (another one lined up today) showing the male/female[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool, starting today We're going to get letters… Illustration by James Rhodes. I'm Just Wrong. Although the very first sentence I wrote for my very first[...]

 Along with Marcos Martin, Paulo Rivera, Chris Samnee and more, Mark Waid relaunched Daredevil a few years ago, only for the book to become a critical darling, an award getter and one of the few books Marvel reader felt obliged to share with non-comics readers. Most-Read Comic Stories Wednesday: The End Of Mark Waid's Daredevil? Along with Marcos[...]

This was the solicitation copy for Iron Man #20.INH • Who will be the next MANDARIN?! • Will an INHUMAN threaten Tony’s plan to build the city of

Entertainment Weekly, MTV, THR, even the Windsor Star all jumped on this one, as Marvel decided to run the news of the big plot twist in the new Iron Man.