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But many deserving, eligible retailers never even bother. Well, why not persuade them? If you think they'd qualify, pass on the good news. Submissions should be sent to Retailer Marketing Manager, Emily Testerman, at temily@diamondcomics.com by September 9th And Bleeding Cool will cover both successful nominations and the winners. And the winners get a nice new qualification for their press[...]

What a wonderful concept! And I fell in with love with comics. Even as I got older, I always found myself attracted to the characters that seemed to be inches away from death, overwhelmed by impossible odds, but still managing to keep their wits about them and maybe crack a few jokes The Tick, Booster Gold,[...]

Diamond code JUL148049 if you want one, standard price. While below is the Ryan Stegman variant cover for Rasputin #3. Diamond code AUG140527. Both from Image Comics, obviously. Above is a new variant cover by Kevin Wada, fashion illustrator recently seen on Sh-Hulk covers, for The Wicked + The Divine #4 Diamond code JUL148049 if you want one, standard[...]

On the left is Ivan Reis' Green Arrow #0 cover, on the right is Daniel Sampere's new Green Arrow #35 promo image. Are they just a similar pose or is there

Could this be a new standard price point for a standard Marvel series trade paperback of a certain size? THOR GOD OF THUNDER TP VOL 03 ACCURSED will now be $19.99, not the previously solicited $16.99. ULT COMICS SPIDER-MAN BY BENDIS TP VOL 05 will be $19.99, not the previously solicited $17.99. AVENGERS TP VOL 04 INFINITY will[...]

Louise Oddball writes, There was a time during the 90s when Adam Pollina was firmly ensconced atop the A List of comic book artists at Marvel during the

Yale Stewart is the creator of the JL8 and Little League webcomics, featuring unofficial uses of the DC Comics characters as young children. It was so successful, Stewart got a Harvey Award nomination and was picked up by official licensors Capstone to write and draw The Amazing Adventures of Superman children's books featuring adult versions of the characters,[...]

Here we get a first look at the covers and solicitations for the Dynamite series based on the characters from Chaos Comics coming out in November. CHASTITY #5 Writer: Marc Andreyko Art: Dave Acosta Covers: Emanuela Lupacchino, Tim Seeley FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+ • 11/5 Finally discovering a few of the secrets of her "unlife", Chastity and[...]

Batman movie producer and writer of Justice Inc, Michael Uslan, chatted recently with Six Million Dollar Man Season Six writer James Kuhoric to talk about

They struggle to preserve their own lives, which have been upended by the harsh realities of death and violence. BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon says, "Dan is one of comics' most renowned science-fiction writers, and I can tell you that he and I.N.J are taking us on a ride that's crazy entertaining and very unexpected with WILD'S END[...]

Oni Press has let us know of a change in schedule due to a change in creative teams. Originally slated for October, Hellbreak by Cullen Bunn (The Sixth

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Space Cake Double IPA Brewery: Clown Shoes Brewery After a few long weeks of no alcohol intake, I have finally returned to the

Titan Comics have announced they're bringing out The Third Testament Volume 2: Angel's Face this December, another graphic novella at 48 pages that continues collecting as a series Our characters are venturing into the catacombs of Europe in search of a secret library in this medieval conspiracy-theory thriller written by Xavier Dorison and Alex Alice[...]

I've been releasing my own webcomics once a week for the past year on my website and at comic conventions like New York Comic Con I'm running my third ever kickstarter and hopefully my second successful kickstarter. What I'm trying to do is raise funds for my next anthology of stories, Double Barrel Theatre Presents Volume 4,[...]

It's everything around comics: the movies, the TV shows, the toys, the games and of course the cosplay.  I know the typical Marvel Zombie and the DC Legionnaire will look at my table, and say, "I've never heard of you before,"  and simply walk away before I can say anything  That's why it's the slow[...]

Cakes, time travel, and wizards await! By Kate Ashwin. Running til Wednesday 27th August. Kate Ashwin writes, Webcomics are pretty important to me I mean, I've always loved comics, of course, but there's something very different about webcomics, and that's accessibility. I think I was fifteen or so when I realised that people were putting comics on the internet- just putting[...]

Abe Sapien #16 is the first issue in a two-part arc that takes our amphibian back into a dark confrontation with his past in a town where he was once

Tim Burton's Batman films) or whether its details ended up being absorbed by osmosis into the collective consciousness irrespective of the comics (c.f every media iteration of Superman since radio*) Familiarity breeds… well, contempt, but for whatever reason we subconsciously take a preference for things we find familiar over things that aren't, and when things[...]

Pariah Missouri Book 2 : The Promised Land Andres Salazar writes, My name is Andres Salazar.  I’m a storyteller.   I've been hunkered down working on the

Nerd Block announced that there us a surprise Doctor Who package in this month's subscription box, and used it to increase subscribers for the month. We reported that Titan Comics had orders of over 100,000 for each Doctor Who #1 comic, but even after all manner of jiggery pokery could only confirm 70,000 were sold to[...]

High action and intrigue courtesy of Greg Pak (Batman/Superman, Action Comics), Eisner-Winner Paul Tobin (Bandette, Colder) and Mirko Colak (Conan)! TUROK #0 Writer: Classified Art: Classified Covers: Classified FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+ • 11/5 CLASSIFIED <> CLASSIFIED We have an exclusive first look at the covers and solicitations from Dynamite for their Gold Key[...]

UNFINISHED Have you seen this artwork? JLA artist John Dell tells us, I noticed the piece missing three days ago, more than likely it was removed at a

Famed for its $800 page rates for freelance comic artists, Penthouse Comix was a mass market comics magazine published in the mid-nineties as a spinoff from the famous pornographic magazine of the same name Launched by George Caragonne and Horatio Weisfeld, it featured the work of Alan Davis, Adam Hughes, Garry Leach, Kevin Nowlan, Mike Harris, Arthur Suydam, Jordan Raskin, Horacio Altuna,[...]

Here we have the exclusive first look at the covers and solicitations for Dynamite's Creators Unleashed line coming out in November. THE DEVILERS #5 (OF

They were there then and they are here now so we are keeping the comic in comic-con. The city of Boston has been a stronghold of comic book culture even before Aimee Mann was selling Sandman at the original Newbury Comics in-between rehearsals with Til' Tuesday According to artist Jesse Farrell, who along with Sean K[...]

Whether it's a sheet of paper that sits up and walks off... Or if it's a thousand robots scurrying around and working together to create shapes...

Launching next week are Multiversity #1, the relaunch of Dark Horse Presents, the new Strain comic, Night Eternal, Sensation Comics, Little Nemo Returns To Slumberland #1, the new Brubaker/Phillips comic Fade Out, Super Secret Crisis War; The Adventures Of Billy & Mandy, Death In Oaxaca, The Hellraiser Bestiary, Giant Robot Warrior Maintenance Crew, Justice Inc.,[...]

He's created, written, illustrated, or produced original content for comics, television, radio, publishing, and reading programs as an independent producer Alumni from his Bad Boy Studio mentor program are some of the most respected talents working in comics, television, and illustration today. Current projects include graphic novels, The Underground from Dark Horse and Jackie Robinson Day 1, mainstream novels[...]

Rather, we are people, and we can be an ages old rock-music loving vampire girl or a princess made out of candy just as much as anyone else. This has also recently been seen in the amazing all ages comic Lumberjanes, that includes LGBTQ, notions of gender and gender roles for comics reading audiences young and[...]

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! Bruce Timm[...]