Comics Archives

Breathtaking and adventurous, the first issue of The Fiction hooked me from the start. From BOOM! Studios, written by Curt Pires, with art by David Rubin,

Since its debut in 2005, David Petersen's Mouse Guard has been a New York Times bestseller, won numerous Eisner and Harvey awards, and has become an influential staple of the comics industry with a wide-reaching fanbase This prestige, coffee table hardcover features never-before-seen sketches, 100 oversized pages of full-color artwork, and commentary from Stan Sakai,[...]

A First look into a brand new world / franchise – Pitched as Bourne under the French revolution – including a graphic novel and film! David Webb writes, I'm David Webb, and I want to take you into a world of, cloak and dagger, mysteries, illusions, passion, lies, violence, deceptions and machinations… The movies and comics business. Where does[...]

A collation of the top ten charts of a number o disparate stores, measuring sales on Wednesdays and Thursdays only, those who can't wait till the weekend to buy their comics A indication of unstoppable desire… Justice League takes the top with its Joker baiting, proving that you don't need tight continuity to sell well. There's a greater[...]

Because of the combination of this appeal and the impressive creative team, Caliber Comics immediately agreed to publish it But the reality of creator-owned comics is that often times they still need a boost to get them off the ground And sometimes a finished product has to be delivered to the publisher And that's where[...]

I learn something new with every refinement!   As to commission rewards, she writes, I'll be squeezing all of these in while drawing and painting comics pages! Still sketching out the Scary Godmother Comic with the backers in it! Sorry for the delay on that I found it's impossible for me to juggle two full comics projects at[...]

The Orbital Comics World Tour continues … Chris Thompson writes, Saturday July 11, Day 7 Walking into the exhibit hall is like being sucked into a mosh pit, albeit one with more cosplay It doesn't take long to figure out why To one side I glimpse Agent Carter's Hayley Atwell and James Darcy signing autographs at the Marvel[...]

Today we have the process art for Carlos Gomez's upcoming cover for Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Down Town #6. We can see the three different layouts he

These are photos taken at our various meet ups with our writers and other comics pros, good gatherings all And it was great to hang out and see familiar faces once again. Thanks to all our writers who brought you, the readers, the happenings of San Diego Comic-Con through crowds and struggle, and to the comics[...]

The podcast consists of the latest news in comics, creator interviews, and a weekly book club discussion. We're back for our first post-Comic-Con show, hitting the ground running! This week sees Swifty Lang of kick-ass studio Hang Dai Editions join the podcast. Lang discusses working with Skuds McKinley, artist of their Archaia collaboration Plunder, as well as modern piraters and Cronenberg films. And he's brought[...]

When the J. Scott Campbell cover for Swords of Sorrow #1 came out, a group of cosplayers decided to recreate the image. Now Dynamite has decided to take

Looking for some digital kid-friendly comics? Well, ComiXology, the cloud-based digital comics platform, has announced a digital distribution agreement with Kids Can Press, the largest Canadian-owned children's publisher in the world This agreement with Kids Can Press brings such noted series as Bigfoot Boy, Three Thieves and the Binky Adventures to the digital world. Kids Can[...]

The amazing Arthur Adams did the cover recently for Guardians Of The Galaxy #1 and he shared his layouts, pencils and inks on his Facebook pages this

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: B.O.R.I.S. the Crusher Brewery: Hoppin’ Frog Brewery ABV: 9.4% Earlier on in the Booze Geek entries, I reviewed Hoppin’ Frog’s

Image Comics' booths are like 2001 monoliths They may well be there to teach us a new way to live 19 Don Rosa is content to just grow delicious peppers instead of doing more comics. 20 Make sure to have a cell phone provider that won't keep you from tethering your computer. 21 No one likes cosplaying as[...]

And The Queen has a parody account followed by over a million of you. And they exist in comics as well of course The Hulk has one with 181,000 followers I used to have one, with fewer And then there's Stan Lee. I'm not saying the Russian Mafia has bad customer service, but I've been on hold[...]

Digital Art panel from NICE convention (which you can still listen to here), this week I'm back with the first part of my SDCC coverage as I chat in the bar at the Hilton Bayfront with the incredible Skottie Young! In what has become the first of at least two parts, Skottie & I discuss his[...]

This week sees the launch of Cyborg, JLA: Gods And Monsters: Batman, Transformers Robots In Disguise Animated, '68 Last Rights, Wolf, Starlord And Kitty-Pryde, Enormous Vol 2,  Power Up Swords Of Sorrow: Red Sonja/Jungle Girl, Chakra The Invincible, Book Of Death Bloodshot and The Blacklist. And then the week after? JLA: Gods And Monsters: Superman, The[...]

Image on 14, Dark Horse on 11, Marvel on 9, Archie on 8, First Second on 5, DC Comics, IDW, Fantagraphics and Universal Uclick on 3 Full nominations are listed below. Named after Harvey Kurtzman,the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art and will be presented at Baltimore Comic-Con on September 26th Nominated and voted on[...]

A sequel to nineties sitcom Boy Meets World, in which the Boy, Cory, has grown up into a teacher, now with his own daughter, around which this new series revolves, and airing on the Disney Channel, who own Marvel Comics Which made last night's episode even odderl. The class get a new English teacher…[...]

Friend of Bleeding Cool, Paul Nicholasi noted a new trend at this year's San Diego Comic Con, cosplayers walking the aisles and charging for anyone who

At the Max Brooks panel at San Diego Comic Con, he was asked what other comics he would recommend He had one choice The reissue of A Sailor's Story by Sam Glanzman from Dover Books Brooks talked about how inspiring it was when he first read it as a boy and saw a direct line[...]

We're going to kick off your Saturday morning with something very cool. We have the first issue of Dynamite's summer event Swords of Sorrow written by fan

Submit offers regular reports regarding the locales of those purchasing the comics which prompted one panelist to note that he "always knows he will sell one issue to someone in Germany." Comment was made that Submit, and comiXology in general, has "democratized the process" of selling comics The onus is on the creator(s) to market the[...]

As Dynamite's big summer event, Swords of Sorrow continues, we have a look at the process art for one of the sub-series Swords of Sorrow: Vampirella /

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! We Stand[...]

Thus the new IDW offices and the Comic Art Gallery, opening with a substantial exhibit of Kevin Eastman's work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, launched in June. Ted Adams, CEO and Publisher, explained that Eastman's work was the perfect choice as an opening exhibit because of the broad appeal of the Turtles to adults and children[...]

If all those sell, that will unlock all the stories below as well… Norm's never before printed Munden's Bar story, written by Valerie D'Orazio (Punisher) and Martha Thomases (Dakota North). An all-new story by Alan Grant (Norm's collaborator on Detective Comics) and Cary Polkovitz (Ukiyo) Unlocked at $11,000! An all new story by Martha Thomases and Richard Case[...]

We've got a preview for Top Cow's IXth Generation #4 that is shipping on Wednesday. The issue is written by Matt Hawkins and drawn by Stjepan Sejic who

Thanks for everything @arune #KingBaller @Marvel https://t.co/cPfvwZm5Ei — Clark Gregg (@clarkgregg) July 17, 2015 He got snapped up by Marvel Comics, naturally, and worked in their sales and marketing department, rising the ranks, where we would regularly fence over one story or another Once describing his relationship with me as that of negotiating with a terrorist, he[...]