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The price rollbacks at Marvel and DC represent, as far as we can tell -- paging John Jackson Miller! -- the first time prices on comics have been significantly cut. iFanboy has a solid analysis of the page count and format issues but the log line is that:

No, that’s not a reference to what I felt like the Sunday after fighting my way across last weekend's uber-crowded, nerd sweat fueled NYCC convention floor.  Of...

Although announced during last week's retailer breakfast, DC made Bob Wayne's promotion to SVP, Sales official with some PR. As Brian Hibbs put it:

Meanwhile, big congrats on Bob Wayne being named Senior VP of Sales at DC – Bob is the best friend the DM has, and I count this as a smart and solid move for the marketplace.

Rob Steen is another children's book illustrator/cartoonist. He's illustrated books with Ricky Gervais and just released a book called The Things in Ted's Head for iPhone.

While comics fans were celebrating comics and other delights at New York Comic Con, publishers and fans in Europe were congregating in Frankfurt, Germany,...

Kelly Thompson has part 2 of her Ladies Comics Project up and we repeat THIS SHOULD BE MANDATORY READING for comics publishers and creators. The idea of giving comics-friendly but not necessarily conversant readers various comics is a bracing alternative to the endless nitpicking of constant readers who sleep on mattresses stuffed with shredded copies of DEATHMATE. For instance, 37-year-old event planner DeAnne was disappointed the cool pop art cover looked nothing like the insides:

Children's book illustrator/cartoonist Rhode Montijo sent along some pages from his new book The Halloween Kid -- on his Web site, he's got some activity pages with things like mask cut-outs and mazes. Good stuff.

Sign o' the times: Josh Neufeld was being sent around the world by the US State Dept. as am ambassador of free speech:

It's been a long year of change in the comics industry, and New York Comic Con feels like the end point of an arduous but rewarding journey. We were just doing a search for blogs posts about the show and already found fairly fascinating two think pieces that show the ascendance of nerd culture as a boon -- or a threat, depending on how you view it.

Only available as an image, but all things Marvel at NYCC can be found here.

Beat Pal Jimmy Aquino and the Comic News Insider podcast have a fantastic signing line-up at their booth! See below:

Capping off a successful 2010 convention season and eager to win over more fans to its brand of high-quality comics and graphic novels, Archaia...