February Sales Estimates – Marvel NOW Finds Minor Stability
The February sales estimates are in over at The Comics Chronicles and what a strange February it was.
DC papered over a decaying mess at...
The New 52 No More (And So Much For the Line at $2.99)
When DC relaunched a year and a half ago, it was "The New 52" and it was emphasized that there were going to be...
Review: Relish- food and comics, a happy marriage
Relish by Lucy Knisley
First Second
A few years ago, if you were told about the rise of the Internet and asked to predict one of...
INTERVIEW: R.M. Peaslee and R.G. Weiner Deconstruct Spider-Man in WEB-SPINNING HEROICS
Spider-Man is hands down one of the most popular characters ever to leap from the pages of Marvel Comics, and is even a strong...
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum announces PARTY
BY JEN VAUGHN - Caitlin McGurk, OSU Engagement Coordinator librarian (and a former cow0rker of mine) let loose the news. The Sullivant Hall unleashing...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: January 2013
The rolling program of Marvel Now! relaunches continued in January, with SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN, NEW AVENGERS, SAVAGE WOLVERINE, UNCANNY X-FORCE, YOUNG AVENGERS and MORBIUS. Plus, there's the miniseries DEADPOOL: KILLUSTRATED - and, just as interesting as the January launches, the continuing question of how the earlier Marvel Now titles are settling down.
Once again, Marvel had the largest share of the North American direct market, leading DC by 40% to 35% in units, and 35% to 32% in dollars.
Jodi Picoult’s a Marvel Zombie
This weekend I attended the fifth annual Tucson Festival of Books. TFOB is a among the top five book festivals in the nation. This year has attracted a lot of famous authors, including, Jodi Picoult.
Warner about to become Time-free—what does it mean for DC Comics?
Time Warner has found its magazine division all too quittable: after an unsuccessful attempt to sell off the print division which puts out Time, People, Sports Illustrated, it has decided to just split it off into its own business, and hope stock investors come along who like to look at glossy magazine. It's a similar to the move Mr. Burns Rupert Murdoch pulled recently, splitting Fox into two divisions: The Fox Group, which includes movies and TV, and News Corp., which includes the newspaper division.
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Poisoned Chalice Part 5: Prologue to Warrior
Born in Goole in Yorkshire on the 4th February 1951, by 1982 Derek ‘Dez’ Skinn already had a long and successful history working in...
REVIEW: Breaking the Mold? ANIMAL MAN #18 and SWAMP THING #18
The end of the ROT WORLD crossover arc raises the question that Umberto Eco posed in his famous essay on Superman in 1972: can...
Justice League of America tops February sales
Marvel topped both units and dollars in February, while DC reclaimed the top comics spot with Justice League of America #1 by Johns and...
