Salem! No!
Oh no! Soon you will see another beloved comics character as you have never seen him before! That never happened before, either! But it's not who you think! And we're not done using exclamation...
ABC orders Fables pilot
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Fables may just be a new TV show for ABC. Bill Willingham's popular tale of fairy tale characters trying to make it in the modern world would seem to...
RIP: Gérard Lauzier
Numerous French-language outlets are reporting the death of Gérard Lauzier, a very well-known cartoonist/satirist who later had even greater success as a film writer and director. According to his Lambiek page, he created...
Please help the NANCY Quest!
Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik send out a heartfelt plea!
Perhaps you can help us!
Paul Karasik & I are currently expanding our 1988 essay HOW TO READ NANCY into a book-length treatment. Our essay originally...
PUNISHER: DUD ZONE
Ouch! PUNISHER: WAR ZONE broke a longish string of comic book movies that did well at the box office with a "dismal" performance this weekend. Even though it was the sole wide opening this...
When will the axe fall on comics?
So, just how shitty are things? Really, quite shitty.
Wednesday was a black letter day for the book publishing industry, as it seemed to be Armageddon all over the place. Jay Franco rounds up...
Best Graphic Novels Of 2008: NPR
NPR's Laurel Maury has released her Best Graphic Novels Of 2008. There are five, and we won't tell you what they are, so click on the link already! Let's just say it's an eclectic...
Marvel Comics subscription and newsstand sales
Since we're talking numbers, Todd Allen gets a look at Marvel sub and newsstand figures via Marvel's circulation audit. The #1 subscription title is the kid-friendly MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN with 31,479. #1 at the...
PUNISHER opens
Opening this weekend is that other comic book-themed movie, PUNISHER: WAR ZONE. The movie stars Ray Stevenson as violent, vengeful Frank Castle. We hear it's very, very violent and vengeful, in a kidney-ripping,...
Robin in the Rye
Andrew Lorenzi remixes JD Salinger and DC Comics. Incredible.
Posted by Aaron Humphrey.
New NBM blog races to top of RSS feed!
NBM, which has successfully been in the business of publishing full-length graphic novels for longer than most of the people now reading them, has finally launched the NBM Blog, and it's pretty nice because...
Batman RIP reax are the new black
It just won't stop.
§ First, for all your informational needs, IGN has a lengthy interview with editor Mike Marts, who comes off as quite smart and professional and all the other things an...
