Collectibles

One of the ways many people stumbled onto their first comic was through the promotional comics that used to come bundled in with action...

Today sees the release of Demon Knights #20 from DC, written by Robert Venditti and drawn by Bernard Chang. And Chang is so excited...

In a brief, statement, publisher F+W announced the closing of CBG, the Comics Buyer's Guide today. The magazine's 42 year run will end with issue #1699, one shy of the farewell #1700 that the collectors it appealed to would have liked. The cause of death was the usual suspects:

Here's a new social media/commerce site that has an interface geared at people who collect: Hazarai!. Let's call it Etsy meets eBay for nerds—you...

Christmas is being held on December 25th this year, so you've only got a few weeks left to find something decent to give your...

Cartoonist Julia Wertz (Fart Party, The Infinite Wait and Other Stories) has just launched Julia's Junk Shop on Etsy, and if you are looking...

This weekend saw Thought Bubble 2012's convention, and.... phew, it was busy. I did my best to talk to everybody, but don't think I...

Are you here? Have you arrived? Leeds' Thought Bubble Comic Arts Festival has reached the convention stage today, with guests including Kate Beaton, Mark...

Continuing on with their blockbuster "Artists Edition" line, IDW is getting even more exclusive with a new imprint called IDW Limited which will offer...

Artist Jay Lynch has quite a storied career for drawing the Garbage Pail Kids, creating Nard 'n' Pat and such recents books as Otto's Orange Day for Toon Books. But it turns out, he and his ex-wife were also the artist known as Kringo:

The Fantasy Economy continues, with a record comics auction at Heritage, and an amazing array of Hollywood memorabilia from Profiles in History!

It's been a crappy horrible day, but here's something to end it on that should make you smile. The kids today may not be aware that Cracker Jack gifts weren't always lame-of pencil toppers (seriously -- who the hell needs a pencil topper???) but were once an array of tiny toys and gadgets all assembled from die cast plastic. And now it seems largest collection of Cracker Jack toys ever assembled going up for auction. It's all part of the Dreier Collection, a massive pop culture collection which is being auctioned off by Profiles in History on July 28th. You can view the whole thing below.