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Former Vice President, Publishing Planning & Collected Editions at DC Entertainment Jeff Boison has just been hired by Image Comics and will join them Monday, October 5 as Director of Publishing Planning & Book Trade Sales. Bison worked at DC since 2009 and was at Rondom House for 11 years prior to that.

As much as we here at The Beat love single issues shipping each month, sometimes certain comics and stories tend to get the best...

Comics sales have been growing and continue to grow, but we're definitely entering a period of retrenchment and contraction for many, as I...

Descender is back!  After a slightly longer than average hiatus, the series' second arc, entitled "Machine Moon," will begin in November. The first arc of Descender made...

Local Comics Shop Day is the latest holiday on the comics calendar, to be held November 28th, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The date has...

In a special push to celebrate Local Comic Shop Day on November 28th, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, artist Valentine De Landro, and Image Comics have partnered with ComicsPRO,...

Let's talk about originality in art. The Wicked + The Divine #14 came out this week, and while I know I sound like a broken record at...

There’s been quite a bit of comment on the price of new comics and it seems to me that newer readers may not quite...

Yes, that's right: Image. I know I usually do the DC Comics sales summaries here at The Beat, but while Heidi looks for someone to step in and handle the Indy comics chart I volunteered to do a column focusing on Image. With around seventy titles each month they're about as large (titles-wise) as Marvel or DC, so I figure they should have their own column, yes? Warning: The commentary may be even more mis-informed than usual...

The important thing to remember when looking at Image's sales numbers is that they're not really playing the same game as other comics companies. My understanding (and I'm sure you'll all correct me if I'm wrong in the comments below...) is that Image charges a flat fee for producing, listing and distributing comics, so that after that fee and the printing costs, whatever is left over goes directly to whoever supplied the comic. (This may be different for the official Image partners...)

A super hero falls in the woods and the sound turns the lives of five kids upside down.

This is the first in a planned series of articles about the “Image Effect.” Over the past 20+ years Image Comics has grown from...

LINE Webtoon is a popular digital comics platform, based in Korea, that came to the US last year. As previously announced, they're bringing Marc Silvestri's Cyber Force to the platform, starting today, with free downloads. . Cyber Force was one of the original Image Comics titles, and follows a group of cybernetically enhanced do gooders who have adventures while being rendered in Silvestri's fine line style.