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Dynamite have announced that their next artist's edition hardcover will feature the work of Jock, the artist best known for his covers on Scalped...

I know some of you are sick of our stalking newish WB CEO Kevin Tsujihara, but he's still in that honeymoon phase where everything...

It looks like the week prior to 'NYCC' has become the new 'NYCC', as Valiant have just sent out a teaser image suggesting that...

In possibly one of the biggest announcements surrounding NYCC '13, Dark Horse and Dynamite have announced that Grendel and The Shadow will cross over...

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...

Empire of the Dead, George A. Romero's next zombie story, will be published as a comic by Marvel. A fifteen-issue maxiseries, the comic will be...

There can't be that many bronies, can there? IDW has announced that they have sold 1 million copies of their My Little Pony comics,...

Somewhere in the Long Slog Of 2013's Comic Book Movie summer, I probably suggested that 2 Guns might end up being the most important film in terms of how Hollywood deals with comics properties (relatively low budget non superhero fare); how true that will be remains to be seen but it DEFINITELY was the most important film for Boom! Studios. They've just signed a first look deal with 20th Century Fox, that, at least in the hype rollout, sounds promising in terms of how it involves comics creators:

I find Dash Shaw's work to be strangely invigorating. I admit I had some reservations when I first saw the daunting heft of his Bottomless Belly Button, with its absurdly extended passage of a man running and profusely sweating, drawn in a style so crunchy that it makes Gary Panter look slick. The idea that all we cartoonists must now draw books that are at least three inches thick and that take several years of deprivation to accomplish thanks to the efforts of obviously dedicated workhorses such as Shaw and Craig Thompson was not a pretty one. But I was eventually to resign myself to this new order.

There are no new issues of Villain's Month left from DC, and business goes back to business this week. But there were six issues...

Here's a pretty huge story that kind of slipped below the radar yesterday: Dark Horse Book has shifted from Diamond to Random House for...

Crossover season is upon us again, as INFINITY launches, and the first tie-ins appear. Naturally enough, Marvel don't want to distract from it with any other major launches, and so it's a pretty quiet month across the rest of the line. As usual, Marvel had the largest share of the North American direct market, though it was relatively close - they led DC by 36% to 33% in unit terms, and 34% to 30% in dollars.