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Is the world ready for a new graphic novel from outsider musician/artist Daniel Johnston? Probably. Johnston, whose long career as a very eccentric musician was the subject of the 2006 documentary THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON, is also an avid comics reader, and this is his first GN. It comes complete with added soundtrack and app for the 360º experience. For those not familiar, Johnston is somewhere north of Wild Man Fischer and south of They Might be Giants and early Beck.

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LA-based artist Alex Gross collects old portrait cards of average people and paints them over with characters from our pop culture heritage.

One of the new books announced at the Image Expo, CHIN MUSIC, by Steve Niles and Tony Harris, via.

Pedro Delgado and Brendan Tobin are at it again, for the fifth year in a row. Can you afford not to partake in MARCH MODOK MADNESS? They are accepting submissions now!

The industry has been asking itself some hard questions recently, and my tweets and email are full of people being depressed about things being so bad. As I always say, the comics industry can be horrid, but comics themselves are eternal. And you know what, when you get down to it the industry isn't THAT bad either. There are some good eggs out there.

Artist Gabriel Hardman has tweeted a peek at a new project which Corinna Bechko is writing. The duo is currently teaming up on some...

Ben Towle's baseball sketches remind us that pitchers and catchers have already reported.

Wow! All hell has broken loose in comic book-land! Last week's surfeit of Aquarian-born comics creators created a busy circuit of birthday parties, and if I had a dime for every time the name "Gary Friedrich" came up, his legal fees would be paid. IP Wars are breaking out everywhere.Why here, why now? As always, follow the money. The most visible and lucrative segment of comics industry has, since the great distribution collapse of the '90s, been primarily in the IP business. Entire comics companies have sprung up just to create movie storyboards masquerading as comics. Big media corporations outfit swanky offices just for the purpose of developing existing IP. It's become a cottage industry. No wonder then, that controlling and profiting from IP has become THE major preoccupation of the comics industry from the CEO selling movies to the colorist selling prints.

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Paul Pope has posted a rough of the cover for the new Legendary edition of his art book PULPHOPE .

Gender switched art seems to be very popular these days, as with the gender-swapped JLA and Avengers. Well, over at Escher Girls, webcomic creator Shobana ‘Bob’ Appavu (Demon of the Underground) served up this gender-swapped Avengelyne/Shi cover.