Comics Archives

From the doldrums a few years ago, Diamond has boomed on the rising sales of comics in the direct market and, well, the rising sales of The Walking Dead in bookstores – for which its Diamond Book Distributors is the exclusive distributor Comics sales are on the up when print book sales are on the[...]

Knave (which you can listen to here) and my recent, curiously related, film podcast (which you can listen to here) I give in to fate to chat with writer/artist Greg Ruth (Freaks of the Heartland, Conan: Born on the Battlefield, The Lost Boy). Greg is someone I've been meaning to speak with for a long while[...]

Also, when a panel changes, there's no alert (notification). They'll work on these. There would be gaps in waiting line barriers, letting people cut. They'll work on improving security Maybe have different VIP/Ultimate packages: One for anime, one for entertainments, one for comics, autographs, etc. The panelists thought it was a pretty cool idea[...]

So. Young Avengers. As recent issues have shown, Loki has been manipulating everyone from the beginning. And while it's easy to see his physical form and

A unified comic book industry wasn't able to withstand the Senate investigations, resulting in the government shutting down publishers like EC Comics and creating the Comics Code Authority. Over the years, I realized that this time period in comics history was never as "black-and-white" as it seemed; and it was those "gray areas" that makes this[...]

The group talked about digital comics in libraries Trudy said they are very popular and they need more of them It was said that comics are great for reluctant readers and manga is the most popular form of comics in libraries The publishers on the panel discussed getting comics into libraries Leyla mentioned when going[...]

The following is part of a series of videos by Marq Romero of his NYCC experience using Google Glass.  Like most of you who attended NYCC, I too am going

Alejandra Bodden writes; Kodansha Comics has announced many titles that will be hitting the shelves soon ATTACK ON TITAN, which has been their big hit this year with +500,000 prints sold in English, will be releasing a volume per month until it catches up woth the Japanese edition Vol 8 is available at NYCC for sale-[...]

Last year, when I interviewed retailer Anthony Furfferi, whose first Empire Comics store was started in 1972, he was very interested in finding out which comic retailers still in operation today have been around the longest. Anthony passed away a few months after the interview, and Empire Comics closed shortly thereafter, but he posed a pretty[...]

According to Taran and Marc, IDW is where the book was always going to go, calling it a love affair from their first meeting in San Diego and Taran's love for the Ninja Turtles sealing the deal (IDW publishes the TMNT comics these days) Chris called it a no-brainer from the first pitch of the[...]

In today's Superior Spider-Man we get an inkling of what may be... a spinoff Spider-Man 2099. With the following premise... but who will work on it? Well,

For Dan Greenfield's new blog, 13th Dimension, Mark Waid has written the following… As the vast majority of publishers and retailers turned on me for preaching heresy and descended upon me like a fat kid on a chocolate cake, I maintained that the Old Ways were doomed to die more quickly than we could imagine and that[...]

I had a very enjoyable, if hard working New York Comic Con. But for some, it was rather difficult. Here's a report by one volunteer working at the show,

Here's what I said last month… Bleeding Cool has been following the comics career of Charles Soule with much interest, ever since 27 from Image was brought to our attention by a certain Jim Valentino in 2010 A New York lawyer, with his own busy practice in Brooklyn specialising in corporate, immigration and entertainment law, he's[...]

Back from New York Comic Con, it's time for more more more more comics! What's on your shelves this week, hmm? I understand completely, Avengers I lost on cheese too It's why I managed to put on an extra 10 kilos, I'm sure All down to Neal's Yard Dairy of Covent Garden. You know if I'd[...]