Comics

The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies have teamed up for a new cartooning honor: The Cartoonist Studio Prizes. There are two categories—Best Graphac Novel and Best Web Comic—with 10 finalists in each category. Winners will each receive a $1,000 prize

All this business about DC's "WTF month" got me thinking -- while you've got the whole gimmick cover thing as an attempt to get...

Long delayed, the second volumes of Vasilis Lolos's Last Call will come out February 13th from Oni Press. It's the story of two friends who are trapped on a devilish train and the mysteries that ensue. Lolos hasn't been around much of late, but it's good to see his stylish art once more.

Remember how DC is having their mature and genteel "WTF Month," where the cover is supposed to fold out and make you swear in shock...

Celebrating one year of publishing, Viz's SuBLime yaoi imprint has announced a slew of new titles: six new titles and 11 debuting volumes. With manga still in the doldrum in the US, it's good to see one imprint hanging in there—the appeal of boy's love manga is still going strong. And who can resist a book called PRETTY MEN FIGHTING DIRTY?

As always, Amazon’s best seller lists are only rolling snapshots, but it’s always interesting to peek into what’s selling. The Kindle isn’t known as an ideal comics reading platform, but the top 20 free and paid comics has both the usual suspects and some surprises. The paid list has the warhorses—Walking Dead, Big Nate, Geoff Johns—but the free list is a total mishmosh.

Good news from Peter David, the popular writer who had a stroke while vacationing at Disneyland. Because of the incredibly unfortunate timing (not that there is ever a good time to have a stroke) he has been rehabbing in a Florida treatment center, far from his New York home. Wife Kathleen has been updating everyone on his progress and David has been using Dragon Dictation to post to his blog and keep up with work. He's been making good progress, and now some very good news.:

Hey, have you ever wondered if a British writer was going to write a new series for Boom? But have you been unable to...

On his Facebook page, Jim Starlin has posted the B&W art from his covers for the first two issues—#19 and #20— of his run on Stormwatch. The inker is Rob Turner. If we're not mistaken that's the first time the "F" part of the Stormwatch "WTF" cover has been shown. In this case it looks like a villain has triumphed and a hero is dead. WTF?!?!?

Continuing the parade of 90s media giants coming back to life, Dark Horse has just announced a team up with Crystal Dynamics™, a Square Enix® for TOMB RAIDER: The Beginning, a prequel to the upcoming Tomb Raider video game reboot due March 5. A 48-page hardcover, “TOMB RAIDER: The Beginning,” was written by lead game writer Rhianna Pratchett, lead game writer for TOMB RAIDER, with art by Nichola Daniel Sela, and Andrea Mutti, if the poster is to be believed. The cover art is by Tomb Raider art director Brian Horton.

Speaking of the Angoulêeme comics festival, Comixology is there and making news. Earlier in the week it was the announcement of an office...

If you somehow didn’t know it already, then this is breaking news for you: this year marks the 50th anniversary of the longest running...