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Ryan Humphrey posted this fantastic Simpson/Akira mash up comic on his tumblr last night and it's been picking up a healthy number of notes since....

Mega surprise! Over at http://panelsyndicate.com you can now buy the first issue of Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin's The Private Eye for any price...

The nominations for this year's British Comic Awards, held during November's Thought Bubble Convention in Leeds, have been officially opened this week. In addition,...

Warrior took nearly a year from its original inception in the spring of 1981 to finally reaching the shelves in March 1982. The contents...

I noticed a common feature in the comics I was reading this week, a feature that made them all compelling as stories: the role...

Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a stunning coming of age story considered a classic by many, has been ordered removed from Chicago's Lane Technical High School for reasons that remain unclear.

by Lea Hernandez - My long-time friend Toren Smith has passed away after a protracted bout of ill health, and I'm heartbroken. I worked for him over the course of seventeen years as part of his elite Studio Proteus team; doing retouch on adult comics, and rewriting titles like 3x3 Eyes, What's Michael? And Oh! My Goddess!. If Toren had lived another year, I would've known him for exactly half my life.

The local library consortium got a whole bunch of New 52 Vol. 1's, so I'm going through and catching up on a few things...

It came in the night like an earthquake or a car crash: JManga, the digital manga portal set up by 39 of Japan's migegst publishers, is shutting down. As of last night you could not make any more point purchases, as of the 26th you will no longer be able to purchase manga and as of May 30th the entire site goes away -- taking all of the manga you bought with it.

A couple of interviews with more information on Make That Thing, the new company that helps successful Kickstarter campaign actually send out all their rewards. it's a division of TopatoCo, the webcomics's merchandising company which already has a formidable infrastructure—a fork lift!, warehouses, employees!—and manufacturing contacts to help their cartoonists sell their merch. The program is rolling out slowly as an in house project.

After 18 months on JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY, Kieron Gillen has given an extensive interview with Q Magazine's Colin Smith on his UK based blog...

Holy moly. How superb does this new Jim Rugg project from AdHouse Books look? I'd heard (or read) of its announcement here and there,...