Walking Dead Zombie walk is coming back to Comic-Con this year
Lost in some of The Walking Dead behind the scenes excitement and chart topping sales, is the human element: the Zombie Walk will be...
Lena Dunham likes graphic novels?
Call her shoujo (girl comics) or call her josei (lady comics), the surprise winner of two Golden Globes last night, zeitgeist idol Lena Dunham...
Marvel Reveal The Cast for Wood and Coipel’s ‘X-Men’
As roundly predicted by the internet, Marvel's 'XX' teaser from last week was indeed a relaunch of adjectiveless X-Men. Today, though, USA Today's comics pin-up...
DC Announce New Creative Teams for Swamp Thing and Red Hood
DC's Source Blog has seen two updates this week, with the announcements for new creative teams on Swamp Thing and Red Hood And The...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 1/14/13: RIP Gordon Lee
Georgia retailer Gordon Lee, who was at the center of several infamous comics censorship cases has died at age 54. Lee was the owner...
Jennifer Holm joins CBLDF board
Bestselling author Jennifer Holm of the Babymouse series has joined the CBLDF board, according to a press release;
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is...
Marvel teases birth and an ice cream truck
A couple of new teasers today for ongoing Marvel NOW! launches. This one teases Birth and has been speculated as being to do with...
Tokyopop is back
Well, it turns out that Tokyopop wasn't really dead...it was just resting. Since the manga pioneer closed up its LA office nearly two years...
Marvel’s 2012 Graphic Novel Sales Reveal Surprising Trends
Yes, much like the annual tradition of looking at last year's sales lists, it's time for another annual tradition: scratching your head and wondering...
Marvel Release Some Fancier One-Word Teasers
Stepping up from the one-word teasers we've grown to love and cherish over the past year or so, this week Marvel have started tarting up...
Diamond releases the top 500 graphic novels of 2012
Here's the top 500 selling graphic novels of 20912 courtesy of Diamond. We'll have more analysis later but Marvel's top GN was THANOS QUEST #1 coming in at #31, which is petty mind boggling. The Saga trade was #12, Watchmen #14. Otherwise it was all Walking Dead and New 52. Dark Horse's best seller was AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 01 PROMISE PART 1 at #34, another sign that kids comics are on the ascendant.
Eleanor Davis wins Gold Medal from Society of Illustrators
The Society of Illustrators has announced medalists in their Sequential/Series, Institutional, Uncommissioned, and Moving Image categories. SoI doesn't really give awards in comics, but the Sequential/Series category covers work that requires more than one image, so it's mostly comics.
