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Marvel's definitely stepped it up this autumn, while DC's remained fairly steady. DC COMICS While DC is up a smidge from October, the breakdowns by category are sort of disheartening, particularly in terms of the gigs that get your name on the cover In November 2011, DC Comics released 82 new comics featuring 634 credited creators, 563[...]

Including Ivan Brunetti, Ryan Knighton, Dan Chaon and Chris Ware. Creator of thirty year long Ernie Pook's Comeek strip, Lynda has adapted comics to the stage, written books, writed for Esquire and Mother Jones, and turns up on Letterman. Barry will teach What It Is: Manually Shifting the Image concerning the "relationship of the hand to images,[...]

It gets sweaty inside Iron Man's armour. Thor's jockstrap reeks. I just don't ask what happens to the Hulk's glands when he gets angry. From Jads

Anyone seen it? No jokes about Cloud computing, please. ImmigrationWatch: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, in cooperation with the English Department at OSU, is bringing attention to the topic in their four-part series, "Immigration in Comics." Where the first segment, "Immigration in Comics," focused on the early 20th century migration of Japanese immigrants to the[...]

    It's been pointed out that Portland may have the greatest number of cartoonists and comic book creators per capita than anywhere else. So

Potato Comics is publishing Xeric winning small press title Freedom by Seamus Heffernan in April, now distributed by Diamond Comic Distribution. Set during the American Revolution, it's a rather impertinent look at a history that some Americans hold sacrosanct. For a start, it stars a teenager living in a Massachusetts that lost the American Revolution, and remains under British[...]

Say you have an awesome idea for a comic book... where do you begin? The knee jerk reaction would be to start drawing... or writing a story. Stop! Ask

Again, much thanks to Midtown's database for this one. You've already seen Marvel's April 2012 solicitations - albeit with the credits of March. Well, now

As the comics industry comes to grips with what will be coming to stores in April and May, there is one book likely to smash sales record that's not from the New 52, or an Avengers Vs X-Men tie in. Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother is her follow up to Fun Home, and has a[...]

It is outrageous that it was I who appear, as people who burned my house were released," Nabil el-Karoui told reporters. GraphicNovelWatch: Healthcare Reform jumps into no 3 in the New York Times paperback graphic novel bestseller list. StockWatch: Darrin Williams of Comics Envy, Asheville talks about the comics he sells and why. With the indie stuff, there's[...]

I think John Layman speaks for us all on this matter when he posted in the BC forum in response to the story about Rob Liefeld and Robert Kirkman's The

Now I'm re-discovering the appeal of working with a variety of inkers. The Infinite is a time travel action comic in the nineties style created by Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman specifically for Rob Liefeld that launched from Kirkman's Skybound imprint of Image Comics at last year's San Diego Comic Con in a European hardcover format,[...]

So I'm getting my six year old daughter a subscription to a new comic book she's been reading. Not by Marvel, DC, Archie, not from the staples of DC

Here are the solicitations. Bart Simpson's pal Milhouse takes center stage in the next of our series of Simpsons Comics One-Shots Take a look at the world of Springfield through the eyes of Bart's bespectacled best friend, second banana, and juvenile delinquent wannabe, and the fantastical things you see through his thick lenses might surprise you. And[...]

But before writing about Mayan sacrifice and man-on-dog sex, he wrote Fraggle Rock comics. Quite a jump. And in April he's writing a new ongoing series for Boom!, Fanboys Vs Zombies, drawn by Jerry Gaylord Humberto Ramos draws the cover for the first issue, costing just a dollar Here's the solicitation text. One is a decrepit mob of[...]