Comics

by Marc-Oliver Frisch Average DC Comics periodical sales in the direct market dropped to their lowest point yet in March 2009, in the context of the six years worth of available data. One reason for...

§ TCAF reports abound, gleaming with white light. Sequential has two more link roundups: here and here. Comic News Insider's latest podcast has interviews with burgeoning superstar Kate Beaton, Mike Dawson, and Amber MacArthur....

by Paul O'Brien Dark Reign continued in March, with more tie-in issues and miniseries. As with the Initiative books a couple of years ago, Dark Reign isn't a crossover so much as an umbrella...

Bob Fingerman's post-apocalyptic domestic comedy FROM THE ASHES has two new video support pieces up, nice trailer: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH3yCV5VGcA&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344] And if you're a little bolder, Fingerman gets COMPLETELY NAKED in this video! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spRRuaV0s4k&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344] We do NOT...

Via his Twitter feed, writer Mark Sable reveals that he was detained for 30 minutes prior to a flight by the TSA after a random search turned up a copy of his script to...

Wow, from all the rapturous Tweets and blog posts, it sounds like this weekend's Toronto Comic Arts Festival was the bomb, the bee's knees and the cat's pajamas all rolled into one. Sequential has...

This year's Bristol Comics Expo was a bit of a stripped down affair, and we couldn't find much online just yet (or else no one had recovered from their pub time) but Cheryl Morgan...

Worth1000 is a website that runs Photoshopping contests, and occasionally they run one that's right in our wheelhouse, like this one, which asks folks to put cartoon characters into famous paintings. Not as clever...

Frankly, we haven't been in the loop on British comics gossip, so we have no idea why this year's Bristol Comic Expo has been radically scaled down, and won't include previous popular attractions like...

It seems that comics stuff -- illustrations and reviews and previews -- are EVERYwhere now. The usual places and the UNusual places. For instance, we don't remember Time Out New York running comics previews...

A few quick notes on notables things: § BOOM! has announced that its line of kids comics will be carried at Disney's Soda Fountain Studio Store on Hollywood Blvd. BOOM!'s kids line includes books based...

Via our in-box, it has come to our attention that the cosmetics company Too Faced is selling a line of Smurfette makeup. And yes, it includes blue eyeliner and blue eye shadow and So...