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by Brandon Schatz A few days before the book’s final order cut-off with retailers, Marvel let it slip that their upcoming Rocket Raccoon series had...

Just a reminder: if you see something that is kibblish, or bittable, please drop me a line. You know what we like around here! ...

Here's the second part of my interview with Steve Moore, with more to follow. The first part can be found here, along with some...

World traveller, gourmet and beer enthusiast CB Cebulski is moving to an international business development role at Disney/.Marvel. In between tweeting and (in the...

It begins. Actually it's been beginning for a while but here comes the avalanche. If my crumbling memory be accurate, MTV had a FanFest-y...

Honouring the best in Canadian comics from a broader portfolio than the Edgar Wright Awards, the The 2014 Joe Shuster Award nominees are up....

A Kentucky man who hoped to sell his comics collection in order to help send his grandkids to college will probably be able to...

Hope Larson has just launched a webcomic called Solo. She writes:

It's been a while since I kibbled and bitted because...well I had one version of this that had like 50 links. I tweeted them...

The issue of harassment at cons isn't going to go away, and seems to get highlighted more each day as women, men, organizers, cosplayers and interne bystanders deal with the growing injection of actual hormonal humans into abstract fan scenarios. When I went to shows as a youngster, I thought of cons as a "safe space" believe it or not. Compared to the rock scene I was involved with, the relatively few women in comics were in a mostly hands off zone, mostly because most congoers were afraid of them, and should anything amiss happen there was a huge crew of friends to back you up. Notice that I just said "COMPARED TO THE ROCK SCENE"; it was far from a paradise of equality, but I felt safer at a comic con than I did at most places.

As reported by Steve Morris, the shutdown of Graphicly, the once competitive digital comics service, has left a lot of unpaid creators, and confusion over its relationship with POD/self-publishing platform Blurb, which hired six former Graphicly employees including founder Micah Baldwin. While it's clear that Graphicly shut down, whether it actually filed bankruptcy claims isn't as clear. While poking around with legal filings, I did find an older wrongful termination case by former vp of sales Michael Croy. While disgruntled employee rules apply, it does add to a picture of financial woes that were going on as far back as a couple of years ago. I'd appended both Croy's complaint and Graphicly's response.

Clearly DC was not taken aback by Bob Wayne's official announcement of his retirement, as the new SVP of Sales and Business Development was...