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We've been telling everyone that Boom! Studios' Lumberjanes has the potential to be a huge hit since it was first announced. The first issue sold out with

Recently we ran a piece looking at the absence of comic book characters associated with Fox Studios on the Marvel 75th Anniversary Magazine cover, in favour of the likes of the Inhumans and Captain Marvel. Well, now I'm being told from a Marvel source that Marvel are intending to put the Fantastic Four comic books on[...]

Courtesy of Frazer Brown... fifty-one cosplay shots from MCM London Comic Con this weekend. And a far better photographer than I... Frazer will also be

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! Bryan Lee[...]

With Iron Man, Marvel Studios created a formula that's been a proven winner for years now: get talented actors and crew and distill the best stories from 50 years of Marvel Comics It seems to be working out alright with successive films meeting and exceeding box office, critical and fan approval. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World Scott[...]

But Avatar Press are also rolling out a rather massive VIP Set with an unprecedented number of comics, graphic novels, and perks to take advantage of The VIP set is valued at over $750 but is priced at only $199 and limited to only 50 packages available for fans with plenty specially selected to be[...]

He gives a literal answer first, but his second one is more fascinating. The more philosophical answer is that comics, primarily out of the Marvel and DC universes, increasingly serve as a kind of shared American mythology and so writers turn to them as vehicles for communicating abstract ideas. The important thing to take away from this[...]

Sergio Toppi, principal influence on the likes of Sean Gordon Murphy, Simone Bianchi, Walt Simonson, Bill Sienkiewicz and Francesco Francavilla is to have

In celebration of Women in Comics month, both ladies agreed to an email interview. Michele Brittany: Ladies, thank you so much for giving your time for this interview I feel like we have known each other for so long, but in fact we met at Comikaze in 2012 However, I realized that I don't know much[...]

Yes, this is definitely the day when comic book publishers announce that "proper" book writers are doing comic books. What with Book Expo America going on

For my money, while far from perfect, the issue does a fine job setting up the new direction for my favorite character in comics. [*Mild spoilers for Nightwing #30 below!] For those not in the know, because of the events of Forever Evil the world knows Dick Grayson is Nightwing…or rather, that he was before he died[...]

So they've announced three more book author deals to go with this morning's two. So there's a White Sand, a new comic book series based on Brandon Sanderson's (Mistborn, The Reckoners) new concept, which will appear in comics first, and will be intergrated into his Cosmere continuity There will be three White Sand graphic novels to begin with,[...]

 Effective June 25th, DC Comics staff members will no longer receive complimentary copies of the comics that DC publish, nor the collections. Instead, staff will be required to have ComiXology accounts and will receive free codes to download the work This change promises efficiency and an end to clutter in the offices as well as print[...]

When Empire appeared in print from Gorilla Comics in 2000 (a creator-owned company formed by Mark Waid, Kurt Busiek and others), it was a comic ahead of its time for many reasons, not least of which was that it featured a villain as a central character who not only succeeds in his endeavor to take[...]

Collects issues #7-12 of the ongoing God Is Dead comic book series. GOD IS DEAD: THE BOOK OF ACTS #ALPHA Retail Price: $5.99 US Cover: Jacen Burrows Writer: Alan Moore, Simon Spurrier, Mike Costa Art: Facundo Percio, Gabriel Andrade, Rafael Ortiz MR, Color, 48 pages PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The greatest assembled team of writers unleash all-new tales of Gods and men in the[...]

This is a Prometheus poster, licenced published by Mondo by artist Marko Manev. Or at least it was. Until some folk pointed out its similarity to Tim

All around pose authors… Such as the rights to create new comics and graphic novels based on the Shaft novels, created by Ernest Tidyman, but to also reprint those novels and publish new ones. For those who forget, they included novels such as Shaft Among The Jews and Shaft Has A Ball Can't wait for the Dynamite magic[...]

This was the tweet that caused a bit of a twitterstorm last night. Jase loves to read comics and draw super heroes He was named most artistic in his class today Please retweet! pic.twitter.com/kEc11RtQCx — Comics For Kids (@comics4_kids) May 21, 2014 Comcis4Kids is an organisation (or individual) appealing for free comics and donations to give comics to[...]

The last page of last month's Guardians Of The Galaxy #14. The front cover of yesterday's Guardians Of The Galaxy #15. Solicited as: With the entire

Poor Mark. He doesn't have a lot of luck with solicitations. Kick Ass 2 #1 launched with a bit of a muddle. And now Starlight #5 missed its June

I guess the folks over at Westfield Comics liked what they heard at the Diamond Retailer Seminar a few weeks back They have decided that all of first issues announced at the show from Dynamite and scheduled to be released in August will be available for only $.99. This is to commemorate Dynamite's 10th Anniversary, but[...]

It's no secret that Marvel Comics have been prepping a revival of the Inhumans as a franchise for spinoff comics and potentially a movie some time down the line In the same manner that the Guardians Of The Galaxy were revived and developed until they were movie-ready Especially considering that the Inhumans could make a[...]

Dan Panosian posted on Facebook, This guy, Benjamin Spark, has placed my Danger Girl cover over Darwyn Cooke's panels and is calling it fine art... I love

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: This week we went through our experimental stage! (It's a little scary) Foxy got to interview Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt and Bill Crabtree of The Sixth Gun! Some really[...]

By Olly MacNamee [*This review contains mild spoilers] What struck me as I read Longship (from Time Bomb Comics) was the purposefully slow, mellow pacing of this tale which is appropriate for its subject matter: the unorthodox funeral for a father who is remembered by his son as a determined, strong-willed individual who, thanks to forward thinking,[...]

How have you found the process? JHF: Terrific.  They know what they want, and they know who they want to do it.  Once you get the gig, it's your gig to do with what you want, and that's a great way to get some very, very unique and cool comics. BB: So we have what is being billed[...]

By David Holloway Since my last report from down here in late 2012, it's fair to say that the Australian Comics biz is on the improve Reflecting the worldwide resurgence in comic sales, there's a small but dedicated bunch making inroads, alongside a new cohort of artists and writers Here's a small sample of creators I've[...]

To me this sounds like Blurb has acquired some, if not all, of the software we used to convert comics into eBooks I can't imagine that came cheap Having seen the results of Micah's flagrantly disturbing accounting practices, I'd be inclined to say he and several other key execs have walked away with a pile[...]

A Big Trouble in Little China comic was announced by Boom! at this year's ComicsPRO Annual Meeting and made a big splash online There haven't been any new stories told in the world of the cult film since its release in 1986 and apparently fans have been clamoring for more Jack Burton[...]

In a press release, Diamond Comic Distribution and digital publisher Trajectory Inc have announced agreement to publish comics distributed by Diamond as digital comics, internationally. Diamond recently announced an end to their own Diamond Digital line, and this looks like an intriguing third party replacement for that initiative. Trajectory will produce the digital comics in Beijing and[...]