Unite the Five? Lion Forge announces VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENDER comic book
You guys know there's a brand new Voltron show coming to Netflix right? It's coming to the streaming service June 10th-- there's a trailer...
Report: Jailed Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani to be freed next month
In a world where cartoonists and other artists are often on the front line of social change, they unfortunately also sometimes pay a price...
Macaluso resigns, Maata and Kessler take over at Wizard World
John Macaluso has resigned as CEO, President board member of Wizard World (WIZD), proffering his resignation last week after four years running the...
Comings and goings: Windrow, Yadro and Dinh
Some personnel changes around the league of late:
§ Laurie Windrow has joined IDW as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, a new position that will...
Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids’ Comics shortlist announced
The honoring of good comics in memory of Dwayne McDuffie continues with the announcement of the shortlist for the second annual McDuffie Awards for Kids...
Andre the Giant and Concrete Park lead 2016 Glyph Award nominees
This year's Glyph Award Nominees, honoring the best comics made by, for, and about people of color from the preceding calendar year. It's a [articularly strong slate of nominees this year, with such acclaimed books as Andre the Giant, Ghetto Brother, Concrete Park and Tephlon Funk well recognized.
Comic artists on canvas: POW! art show in Brooklyn
Looking for something to do in New York City on this grey Saturday? How about a little cultured comic artist appreciation?
Visual Virtuoso Vassilis Gogtzilas preps the Universe for THE BIGGEST BANG #1 (Interview)
The Beat already got the writer's perspective on IDW's upcoming mini-series and follow-up to The Bigger Bang aptly titled The Biggest Bang, but now we would...
Jamie Rich: Vertigo is “alive and kicking”
It's been quite the (heartbreaking) 24 hours, and we're still working through it, but after the dismissal of Vertigo Executive Editor Shelly Bond yesterday, many...
2016 Doug Wright Award nominations announced; Simpkins inducted into Hall of Fame
More awards! This time for Canadian comics. The nominations for The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning, have just announced their finalists and they...
Vertigo restructures; Shelly Bond let go
Whoa, seismic news tonight as longtime Vertigo editor Shelly Bond, currently Vice President & Executive Editor and the storied Vertigo imprint, has been let go, as the imprint restructures. DC released a statement to CBR which you can read below. The move comes only days after a new "Young Animal" imprint, led by former DC intern Gerard Way, was announced, using many of the characters and tactics that made Vertigo a success when it launched in 1993.
Unflattening wins Lynd Ward Prize
Nick Sousanis's Unflattening, a theoritcal treatise on the use of visual storytelling, has won the 2016 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year....
