Avatar schedules a monthly visit to the movies with CINEMA PURGATORIO
Avatar Press might not be a publisher that most fans keep their eye on, however the company publishes key titles from important creators like...
The gigantic beard that was on one comic book writer is no more…
For a long time, writer Jason Aaron (Star Wars and Southern Bastards to name but two) has had one of the most impressive beard in comics.
But last night, as shown in Instagram, all that ended.
Angoulême controversy just won’t stop, as the jury issues an apology and Franck Bondoux...
The controversy over the "faux Fauves" at Saturday's awards ceremony at the Angoulême comics festival just won't die down, and festival director Frank Bondous...
Alan Payne joins Dynamite as vp of Sales and Marketing
Completing today's personnel merry go round, Alan Payne, formerly of IDW, has joined Dynamite as Vice President of Sales & Marketing. Payne perviously worked...
Personnel moves at Oni: Yarwood, Reed and McIntire
It's hiring season in comics! Portland's Oni Press has joined the party, hiring Andrew McIntire as Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Rachel...
Angoulême Festival manages to get even worse by humiliating cartoonists with “Faux Fauves”
Angoulême has really jumped the shark this year. Not content with showing a medieval level knowledge of art and comics history by claiming that...
Young Adult Librarians Select Great Graphic Novels for Teens!
Since 2007, YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association, part of the American Library Association, has been releasing lists of Great Graphic Novels for...
Meanwhile in Angoulême: diary comics, signings and exhibits
Lest we forget, all the hubbub about the Grand Prix aside, the Angoulême comics festival is now underway and a glorious festival it is....
Ricky Whittle nabs lead as Shadow in Starz adaption of Gaiman’s American Gods
Ricky Whittle will star as Shadow, the ex-con with a penchant for coin tricks who is recruited as a bodyguard by the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday as he travels the country on business of truly epic proportions, in the Starz TV adaption of Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
Wal-mart may set up their own graphic novel sections
Despite the jitters everyone is having about the Big Two's periodical publishing programs, as we reported the other day, graphic novels did pretty well in 2015, with sales up 22% in bookstores. Calvin Reid follows up on this sanguine report with an interview with Diamond Book Distributions Kuo Yu Liang, who says
2016 will probably be their best year ever.:
Hermann wins the Grand Prix at Angouleme
After all that hullabaloo, Belgian artist Herman Huppen, aka Hermann has won the award no one wanted, the 2016 Grand Prix. Hermann beat out...
The latest Eric Stephenson tells-it-like-it-is interview pokes “dull, “bland” industry
Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson is always quotable and evidently not afraid of being quoted, as he often tweaks other publishers in a blunt...
