RIP Gus Arriola
Gus Arriola, creator of the comic strip Gordo, has died at age 90. The strip, which began in 1941, was one of the...
WGA Strike — patches of blue sky!
Get out your Oscar frock! Both Nikki Finke and the NY Times are reporting a settlement may near :
Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood’s...
News and notes
§ Adrian Tomine interviewed by Terry Gross.
§ Direct link to Shaenon Garrity's Compleat Overlooked Manga Festival. BOOKMARK.
§ You gotta pay wholesale now.
§ Sam...
Cold Cut’s mystery future
For months, the LJ of Cold Cut Distribution employee Matt High has been spotlighting his spectacular vacation photos. Of late it started talking about...
Another Wood rights reversion
Brian Wood sent out a PR yesterday announcing that rights to another one of his books originally published by AIT/PlanetLar have reverted to him,...
Eustace Tilley competition ends
The New Yorker's Flickr competition to design a new Eustace Tilley is over. Click link for all entries. Above, the incomparable Ape Lad.
News Briefs
We're battling some kind of virus that we got from eating some ill-advised food. It's a real tussle that goes back and forth, and...
Lebonfon Speaks
Patrick Jodoin of Lebonfon, a Canadian printer that has been picking up some work from the Quebecor mess, sent out a brief statement yesterday:
We...
Diamond’s Top 300 Comics of 2007
Diamond has released the figures for its top selling individual comics periodicals of '07. Marvel took 23 out of the top 25, with BUFFY...
The ARRIVAL continues to dominate
While EXIT WOUNDS has been getting much well-deserved acclaim, it seems that THE ARRIVAL is the graphic novel that is picking up, as they...
Diamond’s Top 100 GNs of 2007
Annnnd here's the top selling graphic novel chart. Manga has its own chart which we'll hopefully be posting later on.
Sorry this looks funny....
Diamond’s Top Publishers of ’07
Diamond has released its year -end figures for 2007, and as soon as we figure out the HTML, we'll be putting up more of...
