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By Matt O'Keefe Jim Zub has been on a tear since Skullkickers debuted in 2010. In four years he's gone on to establish himself as writer...

Every year seems to bring an eagerly awaited, long brewing graphic novel by an industry master -- and in 2015 that book looks to be Scott McCloud's The Sculptor, which has been in the works for years and years. It's currently slated to be released in February, and USA Today has the first look at the cover as well as some chat from McCloud on the subject matter:

Locust Moon Comics in Philadelphia has been putting together ran all-star anthology celebrating Winsor McCay's LIttle Nemo with contemporary artists going nuts artistically. The above strip by David "Mouse Guard" Petersen is but one example of many jaw-droppers. The Kickstarter for the book launched Monday and has already been funded, but you will probably want a copy of it, anyway. Here some more art just to add to the persuasion.

I've been hearing a lot of conspiracy theories of late about DC, and some of them involve their participation/royalties system. In addition for quite a while, people have been complaining about the fact that colorists aren't eligible for royalties—and neither are digital-first comics. But that is changing. I understand a letter has just gone out to DC creative folks announcing a complete overhaul of the DC royalty system. For the first time colorists will be eligible for royalties and will get cover credit. And digital first will also be eligible for royalties. Little things like direct deposit and electronic vouchering will also be available.

Original Sin is Marvel’s big new event and it debuted at 147k and then dropped down to 92k. But is that good for a major event book? For fun I pulled the numbers for #1 issues of the last several big event books from Marvel to see how Original Sin stacks up. As you can see out of these 7 books it ranks 5th. I did better than Siege and Fear Itself, but worse than Age of Ultron, AVX, Secret invasion or Civil War. Two other interesting trends to note is that events have become more frequent and sell worse. I cherry picked these events because they fell around the same time of year as Original Sin and were Avengers-focused, but the last few years have been very event heavy and sales have been dropping overall on these events. They are still the best-selling books of their month generally but Marvel has yet to recapture the excitement and sales of Civil War.

by Brandon Schatz There was a piece hovering around the comics internet this weekend about the industry’s supposed need of more shit-talkers. It was an...

Word on the street is that Valiant has a lot of new stuff coming down the pike, and perhaps to run the paving machine for both the street and the pike, they've promoted Warren Simons to Editor-in-Chief. His previous title was Executive Editor. Since the company's relaunch in 2011, Wimons has been in charge of book including X-O Manowar, Harbinger, Bloodshot, Archer & Armstrong, Unity, Rai, and more. In his new role as Editor-in-Chief, Simons will continue to preside over all day-to-day operations of Valiant's editorial department, and manage Valiant's growing editorial team, which was just boosted by the addition of former DC assistant editor Kyle Andrukiewicz. CBR has the promotion interview that has a nice snapshot of Valiant's progress so far:

While I try to point out aspects of good design some consider objective, art as a whole is pretty subjective. It's unavoidable that the...

Coming out of BotCon this past weekend -- the big Transformers confab—there was a bit of news about the comics series, including the news that Mairghread Scott and Sarah Stone will be back with a second Windblade mini because the first one did so well.

Lauren Weinstein is running a five part webcomic at Nautilus about discovering that both she and her husband (TCJ.com editor Tim Hodler) were carriers of the cystic fibrosis gene, and their unborn child had a 25% chance of having the incurable disease.

This week Jorn Romita's first Superman comic debuts, a fairly notable event in that Romita has been known all his career for his Marvel...

Marvel is always generous with artwork in their emails, some of it quite notable. Over the last 24 hours they released this nice cover...