Marvel announces STRANGE TALES 2
Marvel announced a second series of STRANGE TALES, indies-do-superheroes, at their Mondo Marvel panel this afternoon. It will be a three-issue miniseries with...
SD10: Please memorize this map — then swallow it
This is all you need to actually get good comics. VISIT OFTEN.
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Bongo Comics website launches tomorrow
When lists of the most successful and lasting independent comics companies are made up, few people ever include Bongo, known for titles in the...
SD10: Viper Comics #1903
You would think that writing the script to BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA would be enough to get a person banned for life, but no. Jeff Bushell will be at the Viper Comics booth, roaming fee and unharmed, with his new book, STU BEAR IN THE 25th CENTURY. It turns out he's an okay guy with lots of other writing credits. Let's bury the hatchet and try to live in peace, okay?
SD10: Arcana #2415
Arcana is one of the 700 companies featuring Stan Lee at their booth. Clockwork Girl creator Sean O'Reilly will also be around along with Chris Claremont, assorted WWE divas and movie stars and so on. They also have a tote bag!
SD10: Sparkplug Books #1630
Breaking news! THERE WILL BE COMICS AT COMIC-CON! Sparkplug Books, publisher of some of the best comics of Comic-Con -- hopefully their booth will be MOBBED as they supply hundreds of quality comics by people like Benjamin Marra, Katie Skelly, Matthew Thurber and Noah Van Sciver to a comics-starved audience. Sparkplug's entire summer schedule is in the jump.
SD10: Exhibit A #1909
Batton Lash and Exhibit A Press are back again with a new book. Details below:
SD10: Ape Enterainment #2104
FREAKSHOW #1 by David Server, Jackson Lanzing and Joe Suitor highlights the offerings at Ape Entertainment.
Indie Month-to-Month Sales: May 2010
By Matthew Murray
Buffy returned to its usual position of top selling "indie" book this month, but its the last issue before it goes on...
Remembering Harvey
It would have pleased Harvey Pekar, I think, that his passing yesterday was noted in every media outlet from the New Yorker to EW, and not just because they made a movie about him, but as a literary figure of worth and stature. Harvey's life's work was in showing that the ordinary was important, and a working class existence was not a prison but a journey through the profound and beautiful that anyone could experience if they took the time. He found that beauty in simple, quotidian things and experiences that others might have found trivial or mundane, but in the end his message was that what else is there? Life as it is lived is the most precious gift of all.
True Blood Recap: Sweet Up True Blood
Season Three/Episode Three: It Hurts Me Too
It hurts me to tell you what you already know - this recap is late. Let’s just say...
Indie Month-to-Month Sales: April 2010
The top “indie” book on the charts this month is a $1 issue of The Walking Dead #1. However, none of the other Image $1 books have charted either this month or last, so I’m not sure how accurate this numbers is.
Invincible Returns was the best selling non-reprint #1 of the month, and led to a substantial increase for the regular issue of Invincible as well. While Turf #1, also from Image, was the highest launch of the month.
Image had a 4.26% unit share, and a 3.96% dollar share, Dark Horse had a 3.82% unit share and a 4.88% dollar share, IDW had a 3.41% unit share and a 3.92% dollar share. Dynamite fell to a 2.38% unit share and a 2.33% dollar share.













