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Vertigo have started recovering themselves over the past few weeks, announcing new projects to cover the holes left by Hellblazer and Karen Berger. On...

George Lucas made a few revisions before settling on the original screenplay for Star Wars, later Star Wars: A New Hope, later Star Wars...

As of midnight last night - my midnight, here in Western Europe, not your midnight, in one of America’s many time zones - Tim...

Few cartoonists can hope to have as great a year as Gilbert Hernandez is having, with two upcoming releases of majestic power: JULIO'S DAY...

New books that are out just in time for MoCCA, which will be held at the Lexington Armory this weekend. This is what folks emailed us, and if the past is any indicator about five seconds after this post goes up a million voices will cry out in terror at not having emailed me, so expect a part two later today!

A&E has brought back the classic Psycho house with a modern day prequel to the events of that film: watch young Norman Bates overwhelmed by a weird his weird possessive mom, Norma. And now there's a graphic novel tie-in, written by a passel of folks—including show runner Carlton Cuse—and drawn by Emma Vieceli. It's a free download for iPad called Jiao's Story—at 72 pages it's a good value, although the person who emailed me this tip labeled it "misogynist." Haven't read it yet myself. here's the preview pages:

The co-creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, George Gladir passed away Wednesday night at the age of 88. The winner of the 2007 Bill Finger Award, Gladir wrote countless classic Archie stories in a career that went back to the 50s. Even in the last decade, he was still creating comics and attending Comic-Con to promote them, as recounted in this touching memorial by friend Batton Lash:

Here's a curio! DC have revealed the second half of Batman & Robin's gatefold cover, which features the first appearance of Carrie Kelley in...

As usual, you will need many metro cards or cab fares to get to all the social events surrounding MoCCA, this weekend's indie comics...

As I suggested in my early con impressions, WonderCon had a reasonable amount of space and handled the numbers of attendees pretty well. It...

Zoe Saldana might just add to her geek cred by adding Gamora from GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY to her nerd icon roles as Lt....

Marvel have announced that they'll be publishing two new titles soon, both tying-in to their Superior Spider-Man series, and both of them focusing on...