Number crunching shows female con attendees growing at rate of 62% at NYCC
Using numbers from this (itself very interesting) ReedPOP media kit, Janelle Asselin ran numbers on New York Comic-Con demographics, with an eye to growth...
Bernie Wrightson is in hospital but doing well
He was just at HeroesCon, running around, smiling and putting this amazing work (done with Scott Hampton) in the auction (I know it doesn't...
First Second announces Winter ’15 slate with McCloud, Hosler, Watson, Sturm and more
COMICS! remember that? First Second has announced its Winter '15 slate, which includes not only the LONG AWAITED new book by Scott McCloud, but new...
DC Entertainment is alright! Toronto statue of abused child will get Superman’s S after...
Looks like more compassionate—not to mention media-savvy—heads have prevails at DC Entertainment, as they have reversed a lawyer's decision to disallow a memorial to a boy who died of abuse to have the iconic Kryptonian S on it after all:
Interview: Wait, What? Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester?!
150 episodes in, and the Wait, What? podcast is undertaking a huge shift. No, it's not relaunching, although it is spinning off in a...
Heeeeee’s Baaaaack! Convicted child molester Ed Kramer is now a Twitter guru “living in...
If @edwardekramer is following you on twitter, get to a safe place immediately.
By Its Cover (06.25.14 – 07.02.14)
This is me still sort of figuring out where I want to go with this column. A side effect of so much comics output...
Trouble in GOTHAM: Writer Alan Brennert says WB is stiffing him over $45 an...
Alan Brennert is a well-established DC Bronze age writer who was one of the first to cross over between comics and TV in the...
New stuff from DC: KLARION, LOBO, TRINTY OF SIN and new teams for CATWOMAN...
A bunch of announcements from DC this week and it looks like the iceberg of the 90s house style DC has been mired in...
TV Preview: Constantine: He’s Here and He’s Definitely British
[Several of this fall's comic book TV show pilots are floating around out there, and one of our informants got a copy and sent us their impressions. Here's a look at CONSTANTINE which debuts on NBC this Fall.]
Sales Chart: Apple iBooks Comics Bestsellers, June 29, 2014
Sales Charts! You love them, I love them, and here's one I haven't linked to before. Publishers Weekly (my other job) is running category best sellers lists for Apple's iBooks portal and here's the line for the last week of June. I'm pubbing the whole list this time just to get you sale chart analysts ginned up, but in the future a link will do. Note these books are iBooks format and not via Comixology.
SDCC 2014: How to line up for Hall H
Yes it's that time, people as this site and all remotely connected to pop culture begin to be obsessed with nothing but Comic-Con, the...
