Comics

While I suspect the answer is "make comics on your own and hope somebody likes them," how to break in is a common question...

DC's first panel at the Emerald City Comicon will be starting in a few minutes and we'll be liveblogging block it as it happens. Go...

If we didn't have a previous gig, we'd be all over this. $20 for a hand-bound limited edition of essential 90s artifacts? Hell YEAH. Find out where it all began!

Gail Simone isn't exclusive at DC any more.  She's picked up her first non-DC/Marvel title in a loooooong time in the form of a...

Vertigo released Book 1 of its THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning posthumously published Millennium Series novels by...

Karagoz  Contributors: Thomas Wellmann, Nadine Redlich, Warwick Johnson Cadwell,  Olaf Albers, Max Fiedler, Rita Fürstenau, Lomp, Michael Meier, Lisa Röper and Andreas Schuster. I'm delighted comics anthology Karagoz is finally available online  for everybody to buy....

Last Wednesday's issue of 2000AD was special not just because I don't think any serialised comic has ever had an issue one thousand, eight...

It's party time tonight. And people will be drinking up, we'd imagine.

The somewhat uneven performance of Marvel's graphic novel program is a frequent topic of analysis when we talk about graphic novel programs here. Both the Diamond and Bookscan numbers for 2012 showed Marvel -- the #1 publisher overall in the Direct Sales market -- surprisingly far back in the pack where books are concerned.

Well, the task of being Batman's sidekick has claimed another life. Young Damian Wayne, the fruit of Batman's own loins, with killed in a battle with his clone brother in Batman, Incorporated #8. And not in a quick one panel zap, the way we used to do comic book deaths, but in a multi panel pummeling. Since Damian was a little brat for most of his 10 years, some people weren't that sad. But others were. The reactions have been many and varied. First and most poignantly the entire Batfamily is mourning on next month's somber covers, as revealed at Buzzfeed.

And there was much talk in the mediasphere as well, although without cool Greg Capullo covers. One thing's for sure...Damian wasn't the first Robin to die...and I'm guessing he won't be the last.

Everyone’s a little puzzled by the strange choice of number on this issue, somewhere between a #0 traditional origin story and a #1 launch...

iVerse's "ComicsPlus: Library Edition" app just got a big boost.  They've added Viz to their roster. Manga isn't the primary mover in the Direct Market...