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The winners of the CYBIL Awards were announced last week—Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards -- recognizing books that librarians and kids love. The winners are:

Today an EXTRA LONG installment of Kibbles 'n' Bits that literally spans the world of comics and art. There is something for EVERYONE here -- please join us on our journey of clicks. § Spotlight on comics in India! The third Indian Comic-Con wrapped up a few weeks ago, and left a brand new comics industry in its wake!

Since they seem to have decent library penetration, I've been going through and reading the tpbs of some of the DC relaunches that didn't...

As reported earlier, DC Comics has announced their new lineup for the Green Lantern family of titles and they're going for new blood.  Geoff...

Poisoned Chalice Part 2: Marvelman - The Miller Years I If American comics can be said to have begun with the publication of Famous Funnies: A...

While cartoonist Raina Telgemeier has been revealing a few details of her next graphic novel on her tour for Drama, Publishers Weekly made it official: her next book will be a companion of sorts to the autobiographical Smile. Called Sisters it deals with “the inner workings of [Telgemeier’s] family,” specifically, her relationship with her young sister, which as you can see from the above artwork posted on her blog, wasn't always smooth sailing.

The Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz Koyama Press I have a complicated and knotty relationship with auto-bio comics, beset by apprehension and cynicism. There's no doubt the...

Everyone hit go, complain, spinning wheel, white room, waiting list, unfair, people got in ahead of me, don't refresh!, crying, spinning wheel, oh god you hit refresh no why oh god no, why isn't there a lottery, Comic-Con sucks, hooray this is going to be the best week of my life, etc etc etc.

Why does Japan love fax machines? Why does Russia love dash cams? Why does Warren Ellis love webcomics?

Diamond, the the world's largest distributor of English-language comic books, is making a few more tinkers with the top exec structure. Former Lone Star Comics/mycomicshop.com retailer Chris Powell, who joined Diamond last year, has been promoted from Executive Director of Business Development to the new position of Vice President of Retailer Services. Powell will report to COO Chuck Parker and oversee Diamond’s Customer Service and Technical Support, which were formerly under VP Sales & Marketing Roger Fletcher. He'll also continued his role in setting up programs to get new stores started.

This is the second go-round with a US-based Judge Dredd series.  DC tried their hand at Dredd for 18 issues of the main title...

The UK's largest comics festival, Thought Bubble, has announced it's first wave of guests for this year. Declared rather unanimously to be the best...