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Although I'm sure that is to come. The design of Acura's own shield-like front fascia on its vehicles and corporate logo was a coincidence, but didn't hurt seal the deal. SinWatch: The work of Jack Chick and friends under the microscope. JapanWatch: Both Acme Comics and Happy Harbor Comics will be donating money from their Godzilla retailer variant[...]

No Wonder Woman or Rob Granito in trending topics for the first time in awhile, displaced in part by a pair of historical topics: Jim Shooter's account of the circumstances surrounding the infamous Marvel art theft, and the old old school Comics Journal Speaking of comics history, pretty cool to see TCJ getting their historical archives[...]

The current artist of the long running Belgian/French comics series Black And Mortimer, André Juillard, has a problem. He needs pictures of Oxford train station from the nineteen fifties for research and reference. And he has none. But it's possible some of you do Hell, it's possible Brendon does. He needs shots of the train platform and the building[...]

Not safe for work if you work in a really puritanical office. Fantagraphics have been putting the entire archives of The Comics Journal online, including issues before it was called The Comics Journal and was The Nostalgia Journal. And here is a cover from issue 31 featuring DC Comics' Big Barda, drawn by the late Dave Cockrum.     You[...]

That's how the story runs anyway, and recently it was repeated in the Comic Book Comics series from Evil Twin. Now, for the first time, Marvel editor-in-chief at the time, Jim Shooter, has gone on the record about the missing pages with his version He writes; Around about early 1978, Marvel's warehouse got broken into and [...]

What you gonna buy? Ghostbusters. I ain't afraid of no monthly visit to the comic shop.

As the world wakes up to Bleeding Cool's piece from last month about the auctioning off of Frank Miller's  famous Dark Knight splash page by Heritage

And if sales are strong, expect this to be an ongoing comic pretty shortly. The series will be set before Kevin came to Riverdale, about his school life and decision to come out. As I said in my opening address at the Bleeding Cool awards, last year was the year Archie Comics realised that gay people exist[...]

Pope Benedict XVI is getting his own comic book - and it's not from Bluewater. Manga Hero, an Californian Christian manga publisher is published the

CGCParodyWatch: ScheduleWatch: Comics Alliance talks to Nate Simpson about Nonplayer CA: How long did it take you to finish the first issue? NS: I'll rip the band-aid off as quickly as possible here: it took about a year Now, that's including a bunch of breaks for other stuff, and doesn't take into account a very steep[...]

Dennis O'Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor He's best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman, through the seventies, Spider-Man in the eighties and for editing[...]

Less than two months after Comic Relief in Berkeley closed and The Escapist comic store opened with the closed store's stock, another Berkeley comic store is opening. Uel Carter, employee of the store will now launch rival store Fantastic Comics on the old Comic Relief premises And Image founder and Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen will[...]

Zenescope, already quite prominent in the digital comics landscape, have announced that they will move to a 30-day-after-print digital model for their entire  line by the summer, and will make their back catalogue available too along with digital-only content. This will include licenced books like Charmed, creator owned work like Fly and the Fables-with-tits books like[...]

There seems to be a spate of upcoming new Image launches with colours in a similarly-structured title. Green Wake, Blue Estate and now The Red Wing. The

Legendary comic book creator Lewis Trondheim has posted a number of pages from his upcoming expose on the L'Association comics publisher on his blog Here are a few of them, chronicling the radical publisher's beginnings… and how the company fell in the eyes of the industry. L'Association's general assembly that will decide the future of the[...]