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I actually mentioned this in my previous post but wanted to give it its own item. A new issue of PW Comics World, the...

A lot of big comics announcements this week in advance of Comic-Con showbiz onslaught, and some of them have interesting reverberations. By far the...

by Bob Calhoun The mood was tense in the fourth floor conference room of the SPUR Urban Center in San Francisco on Saturday—especially for a...

Wired has more info on Image's big digital news today including charts and graphics. Basically, Image publisher Eric Stephenson isn't afraid of no pirates...

Well, well. While the general state of comics is pretty healthy these days, there had been one company whose well-being we continually heard whispers...

(Above Jeff Robinov and his wife, Nicole.) Despite the importance of MAN OF STEEL in the futures of both Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment, its...

IDW president Ted Adams is always engaging and as candid as any comics CEO might be, so when ICv2 catches up with him for...

As we mentioned in the previous post, the Licensing Show's wrapping up today and there are always some lists and announcements and other observations...

The Licensing show is on in Vegas this week and with it a smattering of announcements about licensing deals and brandings and so on....

If there's one phrase that frosts my scuppers these days it's variations on the "comics are a dying industry" or "failing medium" or some...

The comics industry is doing "okay" these days, but it's still a business of very small margins, and one misstep can put you in a rocky spot. For instance, it seems that Antarctic Press, the long running manga-tinged indie publisher of such books as Gold Diggers, Warrior Nun, Ninja High School and many more, has run afoul of two things that can cause big problems: Wal*Mart and returns.

Kremlinologist alert! § Dave Itzkoff profiles Karen Berger, now departed from Vertigo, and the changing face of risk-taking at DC. Of course everyone will be...