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Little Bleeder Alexa writes; Over on Tumblr, many of the female-oriented comics blogs have been holding tournaments for the best DC and Marvel superheroines and their memorable moments. Ladies Making Comics has decided to get in on the game and is throwing a tournament for favorite female creators Right now, the tourney is in its[...]

It also owns the Waterstones chain of bookstores, that has survived in a market despire the departure of Borders UK. Now HMV is to close sixty stores nationally out of four hundred stores, after reporting a Christmas slump in sales of 14% year on year and admitting it is having trouble meeting the terms of a[...]

Todd Klein presents some of his lettering work from the upcoming League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969 as well as some of the working practices

Real Life Super Hero Phoenix Jones is the subject of another TV news report after preventing car theft in Seattle, tackling a robber as he attempted to

NewsWatch: The Vancouver Sun seems to think that Stan Lee is an illustrator who draws his comics. "Items hopes the National Hockey League isn't paying a fortune to legendary writer/illustrator Stan Lee of Marvel Comics fame for those Guardian superhero characters he's worked up for each team They all appear[...]

Stan Lee accepted his star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame yesterday, including an address by Todd McFarlane, as the event was declared Stan Lee Day. "You

While the American comics market may be heading towards stagnation, the French comics market is holding its own An estimated 1% fall year on year was made up of a heavy slump at the beginning of the year with a surge through the rest of it. But they've been busy bees, with 5165 products in the[...]

It's Garth Ennis' new book. It stars a lady. Who likes dressing in something black and skin tight. And who seems to own a number of guns. I wonder if she

French comics publisher Ego Comme X has started a new series of on-demand books The first is a reissue of LES SŒURS ZABÎME, by Aristophane They plan a number of titles in this range which can only be ordered through the piublisher's website or bought at Angoulême at the end of the month. Print on demand[...]

In French. Which is quite the oddity. The magazine will contain 228 pages of comics, 32 of them in colour, on sale in February for €4.95 , with an initial print run of 38,000. The magazine will contain 7 series and, as in Shonen Jump, reader response will determine which continue and which get canned. Initial creators include Midori[...]

However as part of the letters presented to court, DC Comics stated that they wouldn't publish the four issue series in trade And that policy stood until certain recent changes in the company. And now the book is back, in a deluxe hardcover version later in the year One of Frank Quitely's earlier works for DC[...]

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A short documentary about the venerated British comic artist Shaky Kane, including Simon Bisley and a dangerous Punk Rock Nightclub and Jack Kirby's stand

Until that day, read on. Archie Comics app closes in on 2 million downloads – Archie Comics News Just before the end of the year, we were notified by our friends at iVerse that the Archie Comics app was at a little over 1.7 million downloads, inching ever so close to 2 million. Getting a Leg[...]

Bloody hell. Before I started working at home, I was a relatively svelt 85 kilos (187 pounds). Overweight, sure, but not too much. As of last night I an