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Well, bam, 2015 is off to a rousing start, with news breaking this morning that San Diego's IDW has acquired Atlanta/PDX's Top Shelf, with Top Shelf's Chris Staros to remain as Editor in Chief, while partner Brett Warnock retires from comics to run a food and nature blog. Top Shelf will remain as a separate line at IDW, while Leigh Walton, Chris Ross and Zac Boone will all stay on at the new imprint.

Robyn Chapman's excellent The Tiny Report blog is the Publishers Weekly for micro presses and each year she does a publishing survey with information on sales and distrbution. The new one is ready to be taken

When you leave the WWE, you also leave WWE licensed comics, as CM Punk will be removed from future printings of Papercutz WWE Superstars comics.

Remember how Marvel pulled out of the newsstand market several months ago?  Well, they're back.  After a fashion.  And they've brought Image and IDW...

Recently announced by Marvel and in the wake of AXIS, writer Rick Remender's Uncanny Avengers is being relaunched with a new team and a...

CBR mainstay Steve Sunu is making the jump to company publicist, as he's going to Dark Horse to join their PR department, which was left a man down when Jeremy Atkins left. Congrats Steve and talk to you very soon!

  Yesterday, Marvel Studios released an "ant-sized" version of the teaser for the Ant-Man trailer that is debuting during the premiere of Agent Carter on...

By: Alexander Jones Author Todd McFarlane has just announced a teaser for a brand new project he’s taking over to Image Expo, as well as...

On her tumblr, Anya Davidson informally announced that her comic strip Band for Life will be collected by a pretty major publisher, but we'll refrain from putting it in the announcement since it's "informal." Band for Life was long serialized at Vice, but is now available in full on Davidson's website, where it updates every Friday. it's about the colorful, raucus and surreal adventures of a band of misfits in a world where some people sort of look like monsters. So yeah, Doug for a new generation.

Brought to you by Publishers Weekly, it's More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate...

Benjamin Marra's saucy blend of over the top violence, in your face graphics and themes of exploitation movies is coming to Fantagraphics in Fall 2015 with a large scale edition of TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror). Marra's work deals with the same themes of simplistic adventure and alpha males who kill and kiss with impunity...and a layer of self-awareness means that you can read it, enjoy the violence and not feel guilty afterwards. What is not to love here, people?

Anders Nilsen sees the year out at Medium with a beautiful full color comic called On Optimisim: Why 2015 Won't Suck. It's a very...