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There's been controvery over the past few days following DC's decision to hire Orson Scott Card, a pioneer in contemporary homophobia, as one of...

The January sales estimates are up at The Comics Chronicles.  It's a big January and is looking like a win for Marvel, more so with their...

17x23 Showcase Contributors: Isaac Lenkiewicz, Kyle Platts, Henry McCausland, Nick Sheehy, Joe Kessler Nobrow Press Following on from the success of the excellent Nobrow anthology- a bi-annual...

On February 9th, from 4-7 PM, Medialia Gallery at 335 West 38th street hosted an opening reception for it’s 7th annual Panel to Panel...

Continuing the tradition of Phantom Variant covers from the semi-secret Phantom Variant retailer group—as opposed to the totally secret and nonexistent Ghost Variant retailer group—Joe Harris's GREAT PACIFIC #4 will have a Phantom Variant cover by regular artist Martin Morazzo, which is also an homage to the classic Y

Superman, co-created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, first appeared in Action Comics #1 in June 1938, published by Detective Comics Inc, a fore-runner of National Periodical Publications and DC Comics. Virtually overnight it became a huge seller, and is running to this day, with uninterrupted publication for well over seventy years. A vast amount has been written over the years on the history of Superman, and by people substantially more qualified than I, but one claim, that Superman was based on the character of Hugo Danner, from Philip Wylie’s novel Gladiator, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1930), has some relevance to the larger story of Marvelman and, although I decided that it might be too far back to start this series of articles, if you’re interested in reading what I have to say about it, you should go read this article, and then meet us back here.

Over on his Tumblr blog, writer/artist/Backstreet Boys maven Bryan Lee O'Malley has explained that - due to a shoulder injury he suffered last year...

The big news, as promoted by DC, was that Geoff Johns was capping off his 9 year run on Green Lantern.  That's not the entirety of the...

  Continuing their mini-series releases, SPACE FACE BOOKS is gearing up for another string of tiny-sized comics from some of indie's most notable cartoonists. Joining...

Introducing the best crime-fighting comic on the shelves right now: The Spider. No, not that Spider, but this one from Dynamite Entertainment that you quite possibly...

After ten years working on the character, and reigniting one of DC's struggling titles into one of their most popular franchises, Geoff Johns has...

Following a multi-volume and ongoing celebrated run of bringing Peyo’s original SMURFS comics to English-speaking reader, all ages comics publisher Papercutz is poised to...