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As you may have noticed, female cartoonists are dominating sales charts (well graphic novel sales charts, anyway) and awards and current cartooning classes are anywhere from 50 to 75% female. It seems that a majority of the most notable "emerging cartoonists" are women, and a lot of folks have been joking that it's hard to find up and coming men in comics.

https://twitter.com/vj44/status/710234170451034113 Since it's been a shitty week for representation in comics and in American society, this photo of Marvel's Sana Amanat, Director of Content & Character Development,...

The great unsanctioned print crackdown we predicted a few weeks ago may be roaring down the highway. The following letter has been sent to...

Yesterday Zainab Akhtar announced she was shutting down her Eisner-nominated website Comics & Cola. The reason was not the usual ones — no money in it, moving on, life changes. It was something much more troubling and dangerous.

by Bryan Hill “Thank you, Sarah for your courage through the dark years. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must...

Comics vet Robert V Conte writes to tell us about a unique course for young NYC area comics creators that offers $22,500 in scholarships....

Yesterday the great Al Jaffee turned 95. He's been contributing to Mad Magazine for a mere 61 years as the master of the "Fold-In," a few of which are presented below. Still active and charming as ever, Mr. Jaffee is one of the few people who can genuinely be said to speak with a "stentorian" presence, and I would just sit and listen to him read the phone book.

Hey mom, that movie I was in may be getting much wider distribution! She Makes Comics, Marisa Stotter's documentary about the history of women making comics is being picked up Lifeframe a new documentary division of indie distributor XLrator Media.

The second of the Matrix moviemakers, and sometime comics scripter/publishers (they had their own comics company called Burlyman for a while), has now come...

I believe this is the #1 feel good story of 2016 thus far. Rob Liefeld and Robert Kirkman have been pals for a while. They're often spotted plotting together at cons. They've even collaborated on a few comics, including Infinite for Image a few years ago. But this defines a new level of palship.: showing up on your bud's doorstep with a lifesize Deadpool statue.

Artist Mitch O'Connell originally put the above t-shirt design on sale back in September when it seemed more like a funny, funny joke. But...

by Carol Tilley The business of early comic book publishing in the US is something of a black box: too little data about actual practices,...