From Marvel Comics
July 26, 2011
Marvel Unveils New COMICS FOR COMICS Program
As part of Marvel’s unrivaled efforts to provide support to comic retailers in 2011, Marvel is pleased to announce the return of their groundbreaking Comics For Comics pr
Read more…From Titan Books
July 25, 2011
Titan Books to Distribute Avatar Press in the UK
London, U.K. – Monday, July 25, 2011 -- Titan is partnering with Avatar Press, the highly regarded independent American publisher of comic books, founded in 1996 by W
Read more…From Orbital Comics
July 25, 2011
ORBITAL COMICS PRESENTS GARRY LEACH EXHIBITION AND SIGNING WITH DAVID ELLIOTT
Orbital Comics is very proud to present an exhibition of work by the great Garry Leach (Miracleman, Hitman, Dan Dare), including pages
Read more…From FremantleMedia Enterprises
July 24, 2011
FREMANTLEMEDIA ENTERPRISES ANNOUNCES MAGICAL
FIFTH SEASON COMMISSION FOR MERLIN AT COMIC-CON SAN DIEGO
San Diego – It was today announced by FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) that hit television show
Read more…From IDW Publishing
July 25, 2011
Honors include Best Writer/Artist and Best Archival Collections
Most Awarded Publisher for 2011
San Diego, CA (July 24, 2011)—At the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Ind
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From Marvel Comics
July 18, 2011
Marvel & Disney Publishing Worldwide Announce JOHN CARTER: WORLD OF MARS
Official Comic Prequel to Upcoming Disney Film Arrives in October
New York —Marvel Entertainment and Disney Publishing Worldwide are proud t
From Top Shelf Comix
July 16, 2011
We always make a splash at San Diego Comic-Con -- it's the biggest show of the year -- but honestly, with so many incred
Read more…From IDW Publishing
July 15, 2011
New miniseries based on Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror
Joe Lansdale brings the horror classic to the 21st Century
![[Lovecraft Cover]](http://gallery.mailchimp.com/5792cac24346d164eb0cf6ad2/images/LovecraftLibraryVol1_HorrorArkham_Cover_Menton_Low.jpg)
San Diego, CA (July 15, 2011)—In anticipatI invite everyone to go to the Kevin Keller review in the blog area to read genuine hate mail! It's the first, and I imagine the last, I'll get on that review (it's been a couple of weeks). Still, I'm as proud as I can be. I'm important enough for co
Read more…Alan Grayson was a fire-breathing liberal elected to Congress from a largely conservative Florida district in 2008, and lost his seat in 2010 after being targeted by the national Republican party. He's still a talking head on the cable news shows, an
Read more…As most fans know by now, when the long-running Uncanny X-Men is canceled in a couple of months with issue #544), it will be replaced by two titles. As a result of "X-Men: Schism" -- a storyline about an ideological split between Cyclops and Wolverin
Read more…It's all over the Twitters that Valiant Comics are returning. ABC News has a story here and CBR interviewed a couple of the principals here.
As loathe as I am to send people off-site, read those stories if you must. But just hearing the news raises
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In a recent blog post thread, Emerkeith Davyjack asked the following:
“… anyhow, CC, I thought from the heading that you might as well be list and describing, even if not reviewing, all the Thor stuff that has been published by Marvel in anticipat
Read more…Can anyone tell me where and how to get a complete run of Alex Raymond/Mac Raboy Flash Gordon?
I have some Checker collections, some hardback, some softback. Which appear to be the dailies. And now IDW is offering new collections, which appear to b
Read more…Hey, Legionnaires! I've got a tight turnaround for a Human Torch story, and one aspect is "Dumb/Immature Things Johnny Does or Did." Anyone got any favorite bonehead moments for the FF's Human Torch?
Thanks in advance!
Read more…Hey, all!
CBG is doing a cover story on the top 10 comics stories of 2010. What do you think they are? No need to come up with 10 -- just the one or ones you thought were biggest. The more opinions, the merrier!
EDITED: Lumbering Jack raised a good que
I tried to put my partial thesis up on Google Docs, but it eliminated all the footnotes. I'd like to get it up somehow, though, since you've all had a hand in it, and I'd like for you all to see and comment on the progress.
If anybody has any ideas,
And if so, how would you characterize it? Are there any blurbs or word balloons where the omniscient narrator or characters talk about the power/responsibility/nature of the press? Were there continuing characters, and if so, were they heroic charact
Read more…Hi, Legionnaires!
I just wanted to bring everyone's attention to a number of "First Look" preview pages that have come in lately, and are posted in the Comics News group -- including more than 40 pages of the Witchblade Vol. 7 trade paperback!
That's a
Sometimes I think I should start an entire group just for dreams, because I have a lot of complex, vivid dreams that I need to write down somewhere. I'm sure others do, too. But that's a question for another day. Here's last night's, before I forget
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