Comics

Once again, the death of a major comic book hero is announced to the world via a newspaper before the book is on sale...

Poisoned Chalice Part 3: Marvelman Falls The actual work on the Marvelman titles was done by various artists, and Mick Anglo goes into quite a bit...

If you're like us, Friday is time for all the anxiety or the week to give you one last slap in the face; we're riding it out today with the hypertropic, it all has to happen at once sounds of Spectral Park. For a visual version, here's Anxiety Art: Face It by C.F. (Powr Mastrs), which manages to put it all in a beautifully colored perspective. Over and OUT.

In a development that's not wholly unexpected, but certainly welcome, it seems Matthew Vaughn has joined the team for Fox's rebooting of the Fantastic...

Or so this just released promo would indicate. The Robert Kirkman-penned (!) Marvel Zombies spinoff in 2005-6 was a bestseller for Marvel, leading to...

Lord Henry Baltimore, Vampire Hunter, is more strictly speaking the hunter of a specific vampire, as THE WIDOW AND THE TANK one-shot reminds us....

You Can Never Be Me by Patrick Kyle There's a meme (as I believe they're called) that I see cropping up fairly regularly in my...

Brett Culp kick-starts his Batman inspired not-for-profit documentary, Legends of the Knight. Culp that features interviews from everyone's favorite industry Bat-fans, and powerful everyday people that use their enthusiasm to be active in their communities and overcome extreme hardship.

Specifically...a Senior Vice President, Sales & Business Development. Despite what it sounds like, the position doesn't seem to be replacing EVP Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood or SVP Sales Bob Wayne and is a new position.

The Chicago Weekly profiles cartoonists cartoonist Ivan Brunetti, who talks candidly about his teaching, low comics output of late, depression, and home town. Perhaps best known for his Fantagraphics collection Misery Loves Comedy, Brunetti is a much respected foundational indie cartoonist. His two comics anthologies from Yale Press —Graphic Fiction and Grahpic Fiction Volume II -- are also just about the best introductions to literary and art comics of recent years.

I just don't think Diamond gets digital.  They're trying, but they keep throwing some really odd things out there.  This latest bit has me...

Valiant are pushing to the next stage of superhero this year, taking their five comics (all of which seem to have been very well...