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In the debut issue of Sktchd.com's Off Panel podcast interview series, David Harper sat down with Sean Gordon Murphy, prolific illustrator of titles including The Wake and Hellblazer: City of Angels. Recently, he collaborated with Mark Millar on Chrononauts, a time-hopping action miniseries that was optioned for a movie deal before the release of its first issue. While Murphy is known as one of the most talented artists in comics, he's also one of the most brutally honest, and this podcast is full of truth bombs about the harsh realities of working in comics.

If you missed it, earlier today Dynamite made the following big announcements: They're opening an office in Manhattan They're partnering with Atari to reprint Atari Force and make new licensed comics They're publishing A Train Called Love, a...

What a Dynamite day.  The comics publisher previously announced that they'll be opening a branch office in New York's flatiron district and that they'll be working with Atari to produce new comics properties.  Now...

Author Warren Ellis chooses his projects in comics extremely carefully, especially his licensed comics work. The author previously expressed these thoughts in a blog post from his own website: There are very few existing properties...

Hot on the heels of the announcement of Dynamite's Manhattan take-over, the publisher just announced a partnership deal with Atari, the video game publisher that brought you classics such as Pong and E.T..  The days of...

Dynamite is joining Valiant, Marvel and Secret Acres as comics companies with a New York City presence as they've announced a branch office opening in the ultra trendy Flatiron District. Try the Tiger Shrimp...

DC is bringing back several cult favorite characters back in a big way.  In the beginning of 2016, DC will debut eight miniseries meant to enhance the DC Youniverse's diversity. Len Wein will be writing a...

We just told you about the huge deal between French comics publisher Delcourt and Comixology to being a line of French comics to English via digital. Now here's one example of why it's big, an exclusive preview of the English language version of Pénélope Bagieu's Josephine. Bagieu is hugely popular in France for her down to earth comics about contemporary life. Her Exquisite Corpse was just published earlier this year by First Second; Josephine is her long running comic about a young woman with the usual complicated and annoying life—at least one of the strips below describes just about every day of my life, but I'll let you guess which.

First big announcement of the week: Delcourt, the biggest independent comics publisher in France, will release a line of their book in English for the first time via Comixology. The initial line of books...

Image by Ward Sutton Happy fourth to all! I'm taking it easy on the pre San Diego news to run errands, upgrade my laptop and do all those real world things I've been putting off,...

By Victor Van Scoit We may know Marvel's movie slate well into 2018, but there's still some unknowns when it comes to their directors. While fans are waiting for confirmation on exactly who those directors will be,...

As I noted a few weeks back, Tokyopop, the company that came in changed comics and then crashed and burned, suspending publication for the most part back in 2011, is coming back as announced on a panel at Anime Expo with plans to begin publishing again in 2016" announced by founder Stu Levy.