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Got some Christmas loot you're itching to spend? Various comics publishers and digital vendors have just what you need in the form of some tempting sales, including digital graphic novel app Sequential, Image and Submit sales at Comixology and a massive Star Wars megabundle that gives you digital editions of EVERY Dark Horse Star Wars comic.

Another neo classic comic for the hols as Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca's  homeless crimefighting skateboarder, Street Angel, teams with Santa on a brief...

Whatever holiday you celebrate, from all of us at Stately Beat Manor, wishing you a happy and safe one.  

I don't want to say "a holiday classic" but this special Eight Part Breaking Cat News Christmas Special by Georgia Dunn is...a holiday classic. While investigating the tree that the humans brought into the house, Elvis gets lost outside in a snowstorm! And meets up with a friendly furry friend named Tommy who has no home. It's cold and wet and how will remaining news team members Puck and Lupin cover this epic story? And will Elvis be changed?

Every year cartoonist Kate Beaton returns to her parents house in the maritimes for the holidays, and the series of hilarious and touching comics...

As you might have read here earlier in the week, Humble Bundle's well into 7 figures worth of revenue for 2014.  Right now we're...

By: Alexander Jones Valiant comics are continuing to mix up their line with a couple of brave new experimental decisions, but this one might be...

It's an all too familiar story: an artist without a lot of funds, and no insurance, all of it wiped out following a sudden...

By: Alexander Jones He's out of the tiara and in our television subscription services, he's LUKE CAGE! Mike Colter has just been announced to co-star in A.K.A....

Whitney Taylor continues to be my favorite investigative comics journalist—well, maybe investigative is too strong a word, but if "talking to a lot of people and painting a picture" is the criterion, Whit is it, as her report on Comic Arts Brooklyn shows. This was a strong show but one that experienced an unexpected glitch: a lot of people thought it was a two day show and didn't come to the exhibits on Saturday. This resulted in a smaller crowd and, for some, lower sales. On the day there was a lot of anxiety—it's like basing your business plan on Christmas sales and then there's a big blizzard the day of the big sale—but everyone seems to have survived intact. And yet, is a financial model this precarious one that is "sustainable"? I predict sustainable will be THE word of 2015, as a the last few days of posts here have been exploring. Taylor talks about the model with many publishers and creators and key behind the scenes people like publishing rep Tony Shenton, and while everyone is optimistic, there is no real consensus on whether things are working, improving or just providing a false illusion of hope:

Do I really need to say any more? After more than a year, a new issue of Love and Rockets: New Stories is coming out in a few weeks. While everyone else is popping the champagne, I'll celebrate by running the nine page preview of new work by the incomparable Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez.

A couple of news bits and a personal announcement to tackle this week, so let’s get right to it. MILLION AIRS About a week ago, Marvel started...