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Who knows better how to fight the coronavirus and economic catastrophe than people in the fighting business, fake or otherwise? You have to be willing to bodyslam the coronavirus if you want to survive You have to be willing to choke out an economic recession or mount it and deliver crushing blows to the head[...]

Marvel Comics is asking more freelance comcis creators to pause work on their current projects in the light of the current global situation.

Chip Zdarsky auctions off a Very Naughty Story starring You for #Creators4Comics to raise money for comic book stores in trouble.

In recent days, the Book Industry Charitatable Foundation, or BINC, has become the favoured comic book industry charity to help beleaguered comic book

DC Comics has suspended publication in print and in digital of all-new comic books intended for the direct market of comic book stores. The exception are

Even more #Creators4Comics items go to auction, including the only available copy of Ludocrats #1 courtesy of Kieron Gillen

Marvel Comics creative director and EVP Joe Quesada has created a new piece of Captain America artwork to celebrate healthcare workers.

ReedPOP has cancelled BookCon, originally rescheduled from May until July, now delayed until the spring of 2021. All tickets are refunded.

The #Creators4Comics hashtag has launched, auctining off original comic book artwork and other items to benefit comic stores.

The Stand author Stephen King took to Twitter last week to offer up a new nickname for the COVID-19 virus, one that Donald Trump won't like.

Comedy legend, writer and actor Tim Brooke-Taylor died this morning at the age of 79 from the coronavirus He was best known as one of the three-member of The Goodies comedy troop of the seventies, alongside Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, the most popular TV comedy show of its day But he was also a[...]

Sadly, it looks like the same has happened again, with any momentum the league had created derailed by the Coronavirus pandemic Back on March 12th, when all of the other sports leagues were also canceling or postponing their seasons, the XFL joined in and ended their season as well That was really the date that[...]

Regardless of comedic or dramatic background, someone associated with one of the about a dozen or so shows that participated created a custom coronavirus-related entry from their respective television series Among those who participated were Tina Fey (30 Rock), Dan Goor (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Norman Lear (All in the Family), and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Riverdale), as well[...]

NBC's Saturday Night Live will return with a new episode this weekend that's being produced remotely and include original content and Weekend Update.

MAINGEAR, the New Jersey-based PC builders will be producing ventilators to help hospitals to help with the recent shortage due to COVID-19.

Instead of referencing the machine 36 years later, the actor speaks with the same intensity about the coronavirus/COVID-19 in similar terms He even takes off his mask for added dramatic effect. Actor Michael Biehn Credit: Markus Wissmann / Shutterstock.com Resharing in higher quality: #TheTerminator star Michael Biehn reprises his role for a message for today's struggles pic.twitter.com/cP0EAp9Ujd —[...]

Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert are teaming up to host One World: Together at Home, set for Saturday April 18, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Eva Perkins is stuck in the Philippines, far from her husband and comic book creator Grant Perkins, and the rest of her family.

In Massachusetts, GameStop has officially ceased all of its business following a state-mandated shutdown of all non-essential businesses due to the Coronavirus. A GameStop store awning in Manhattan, New York. GameStop has been trying to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic in a variety of different ways – from claiming that their business as a retail chain[...]

MyComicShop has announced that it too will be suspending all new orders, as a result of shutdown orders in the state of Texas. MyComicShop.com has closed Their front page has now updated to contain the statement "we are temporarily closed in accordance with coronavirus mitigation orders from the governor of Texas At this time we are only[...]

AWA has been tweeting opinions regarding the future of the comic book industry, with suspicions that they are coming dorectly from publisher Bill Jemas

At the conclusion of the original Dark Nights: Metal series by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, The Batman Who Laughs lost his fingers. The Joker chopped

Rockstar Games is working hard to do its part to help reduce the effects of the novel coronavirus, at least when it comes to monetary contributions. The Red Dead Redemption II developer announced that it would be donating five percent of its in-game transactions in Red Dead Online and Grand Theft Auto Online to small businesses[...]

The DC comic book cover around a Marvel comic book inside pages, Teen Titans on Marvel Two In One, on eBay for over a million dollars.

Xbox has launched a new option on its menu for gamers to be more proactive with coronavirus aid with a donation option to the CDC Foundation The company has added a new app, which you can see in the image below, where players in the U.S can donate to the Centers for Disease Control and[...]

While the coronavirus outbreak is currently happening, not all stories coming out of it are sad For example, Gameforge has stepped up with some help of their own The Germany-based video game company has seen the epidemic hit across all parts of Europe, including Italy to the south where the country is on lockdown So[...]

Konami decided to issue a statement this week regarding the release schedule of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game amid the coronavirus outbreak Like a lot of things that are mass-produced in North America, Asia, or other areas of the globe affected by the virus, production has slowed down in certain areas Trading card games of[...]

The Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the comics industry as a whole for weeks now, and G.I Joe is just the latest series that will see delays No word on if this is a permanent end, as Hama was not told anything other than to put "pencils down", as stated in a Facebook post today. The[...]

When last time we checked in with The Boys executive producer Eric Kripke, he was hard at work (from a healthy distance) editing the second season of

While certainly it can be said that Monopoly is selling so well now due to the Coronavirus and the need to stay indoors, having its 85th anniversary likely helps. The LEGO Technic Land Rover Defender, a best-seller in the UK according to the NPD Group. Frédérique Tutt, a global toy market expert for the NPD, said this about[...]