Crowdfunding

After making some noises about it for a while, Tom Spurgeon has joined the crowdfunding world for his award-winning Comics Reporter site with a...

I first learned about Dan Berry due to my insatiable hunger for comics podcasts. Make It Then Tell Everybody consists of intelligent and insightful conversations...

A couple of years ago we were crowing with joy when Pulitzer Prize finalist cartoonist Matt Bors was hired to run Medium's comics section, The Nib, and the results were glorious, with two years of daily content that was smart funny, trenchant, moving, eye opening and everything else we love about comics. Well, as with most start-ups all good things must come to an end.

Want to know what comic-cons are really about? Get these books. In my previous post I talked about the importance of community -- it is...

We sat down at Flame Con with Cecil Baldwin, star of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, and talked WTNV's origins, it's explosive popularity and how serialized storytelling expands representation of LGBTQ characters

Artist and writerPhil Jimenez talks gay comic fandom, the many faces of Wonder Woman and why Midnighter leaves him cold.

Normally I don't do Kickstarter columns but so many of them are coming and so many of them are cool, I'm BREAKING WITH TRADITION. §...

Independent publisher ComixTribe has been steadily growing their presence in the direct market, on Kickstarter and especially on the web. ComixTribe.com is a site that's used...

In 2008, Oliver Mertz and Mike Isenberg came up with the idea for First Law of Mad Science, an affecting and strangely portentous story about...

The Federal Trade Commission has just sent a press release touting its first successful action against a failed Kickstarter campaign. The FTC's mission is to...

We talk to Geeks OUT founder Joey Stern about the kickstarter-funded Flame Con, coming June 13, New York City's first ever LGBTQ comic convention.

I'd been hearing word on the street that the controversial Archie Kickstarter campaign would be cancelled, about $30 K in and CBR has the official word. The planned titles—Jughead by Chip Zdarsky, Betty & Veronica by Adam Hughes and Kevin Keller by Dan Parent—will be published, as promised, but the rollout will be slower with Jughead launching in the fall. According to Archie publisher Jon Goldwater, the negative attention was detracting too much from the actual projects: