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Image Comics is bringing award-winning playwright and This American Life personality Sean Lewis to the comic book world Lewis will be teaming up with red-hot artist Benjamin Mackey for an all-new ongoing series entitled Saints The story focuses on Blaise, Lucy, and Sebastian who discover a Holy War is erupting and they, unwittingly, are the[...]

Those who read ComiXology comics on their iPad have discovered a slight problem Usually you can access certain comics offline if you have downloaded them Great for reading while travelling on planes, trains or sitting in basements anticipating an imminent nuclear attack. But now, the current login feature is preventing that The App now automatically logs[...]

It's only gonna get better, folks! To get in touch, send feedback or submit projects for consideration, please email chris@orbitalcomics.com And if you missed last week's episode (or any others) you can find them right here or subscribe via iTunes You can also support the Orbital in Conversation podcast by clicking here to make a donation[...]

This unlettered, and partially uncoloured, preview from Marvel Comics PR and given to StarWars.com of (breath in) The Journey To Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Star Wars: Shattered Empire by Greg Rucka and Marco Checchetto begins on the moon of Endor, where Return Of The Jedi ended and they all had a big party. Remember, this is all Star Wars[...]

Sex Criminals #11 was sold in two varieties last week. Both bagged, one hid a 1:35 sketch by the creators, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, the other, a

Last month, Marvel Comics was June's top publisher with a 40.86% dollar share and a 43.16% unit share, maintaining their over-15 point lead on DC Comics who are on 25.06% dollar share and a 28.03% unit share. This month that lead has been maintained but both publisher's marketshare has slipped with Marvel down to 38.43% and[...]

Diamond will be holding their 2015 Diamond Retailer Summit in Baltimore from 23rd-25th September and has updated the names of the publishers sponsoring the event, and at what levels, which also suggests their level of involvement. Added as a Gold Sponsor is Dynamite, who will no doubt have plenty to say about James Bond. Ossm Comics has dropped[...]

Nerd Block are issuing free Welcome Blocks to any of their new subscriptions. I've just been sent one, as part of a promotional drive, so let's have an

John Romita Jr told Newsarama about his approach to drawing Superman. The very first promotional sketch I ever did was so bad. I had changed the face a

This is the word according to Doom. A preview of Secret Wars #5, out next week. Well, there are plenty of heresies abound. Including this variant cover of

Idle Hands have nailed down new Big Hero 6 toys coming from Bandai. They've basically had a repaint.   And they're all blacks and purples.  

I'm guessing you are pleased with how it's turned out, but wasn't it terrifying filling the biggest shoes in comics?  MATT WAGNER: Well first off, Leah…thanks for the kind words.  And, yeah…I'm very pleased with how this is all turning out.  Truth be told, when Dynamite first offered me this gig, I said "No"…twice.  Not so[...]

We've had the news that Blade has been moved from October release to an unspecified new date. And something similar has happened to Hopeless Savages

STRANGE. Having said that, I feel myself pulled more toward creator-owned stuff these days, and I'm really hoping to arrange my schedule to accommodate that. LM: Writing comics can at times be a lonely and thankless task, where you labor for weeks in a darkened room, with only your crushing insecurities for company What propels you to[...]

The Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They say: Foxi and special guest Sarah Mowrey take a stroll thru Sarah's top 5 single issues for the week of Wednesday August 5 & then Foxi breezes thru this month's PREVIEWS Watch segment[...]

Green Lantern writer Robert Venditti has taken Hal Jordan on a new journey, one that has him no longer wearing a ring and the galaxy believing him to be a

These 8 graphic novels and collections will help, including one for the kiddies. DRESSING ISBN: 978-1-927668-22-1 $19.95 5 ½ x 8, 120 pages, colour, paper over board September 2015 Like Very Casual, a collection of very odd odds and sods from the outré oeuvre of Michael DeForge. Michael DeForge makes comics like no one else This collection of the cartoonist's mini-comics, zines, anthology[...]

This September, get ready for a double dose of the Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra universe as Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru present the first chapter of Avatar: The Last Airbender—Smoke and Shadow and Bryan Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino, and Joaquim Dos Santos go behind the scenes of the final season[...]

Blade is an All-New All-Different Marvel comic book launch for October, by Tim Seeley and Logan Faerber. Or rather, it was. Oh, the book is still being

Faster Than Light #1 is a new Image comic coming out in September by Brian Haberlin and Vandyke. Brian has sent us the cover and five internal pages - but

This past weekend I had the opportunity to sit alongside DC Comics' writer and artist Ming Doyle, as she sketched out a couple commissions, and ask her about the new series she, and James Tynion IV, are working on Namely, Constantine: The Hellblazer. Octavio Karbank: With Constantine, what attracted you to the character initially? Ming Doyle: I[...]

Game of Thrones had a panel at this years SDCC in the infamous Hall H, hosted by late-night television star Seth Meyers and filled with cast members from

Marvel are pushing the relaunch of Miracleman, the Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham run, ahead of the Final Order Cut-off date.  And they have released the

Here are the November solicitations for Aspen - nice and early! That's more like it! other publishers, take note... LEGEND OF OZ: THE WICKED WEST #2 Tom

Next week, we have the launches of Adam 3, King Tiger, DC Bombshells, X-Files Season 11, Boy-1, Beauty, Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl, Archon, Fight For Your Life, Americatown, Sleepy Hollow: Providence, Sanitarium, Gears And Bones, King, Muirwood: Lost Abbey, and a new Secret Wars, Walking Dead and Batman. And the week after? New MGMT, TMNT Amazing[...]

We ran the good news about an opening comic book store in Oxford, England, earlier today. Well here's another, several thousand miles away. Aw Yeah! Comics, already with three stores in the MidWest has gone East to Harrison, New York, to open a fourth It had a soft opening a couple of weeks ago, with a harder[...]

Savage Dragon is one of the longest running series from a single creator/creative team in American comic book history, challenged only by the likes of

He's best known as Wordburglar, author of a number of well received comic and geek-theme albums, singles and videos...

A piece of promo art from the upcoming Paybacks series from Dark Horse, by Geoff Shaw. And the cover image to Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia, by JG Jones.

Image by Mark Fredrickson, out in two weeks, or available on the Mad Magazine App right now, here's the Hillary and Bill Clinton cover that so amusing San