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by Brandon Schatz As the whispers from last week’s Diamond Retailer Summit turned into audible noise, it quickly became apparent that the rumours were true:...

The year creepeth on and now the Russ Manning Award nominees has just been announced. Presented to "the most talented newcomer" this award,...

Dynamite hit Book Expo with a pocketful of announcements today.  Projects based on prose books with a mix of deal extensions and new deals....

Christian Beranek is the writer of Validation, a webcomic telling stories from the life of a trans girl living in the city. The series...

This Saturday the previously business only trade show Book Expo America will turn into the very first BookCon, an event that is open to...

Earlier this year, the Society of Illustrators announced that for the first time they would be holding a juried show for Comics and Cartoon...

By Matt O'Keefe Over ten years in the making, Mark Waid and Barry Kitson's Empire is finally back. Volume 2 just debuted as on Thrillbent...

And just a reminder tonight is a Bone Marrow Donor Drive and Hang Dai Studios Signing at JHU with all the above folks PLUS...

The above band of scalawags signs the SCAM Anthology at Forbidden Planet tonight. SVCAM is a book that was Kickstartered and now published...

There’s very little chance you’re at this site, reading this article about comic book retail, and do not have a working knowledge of recent comic book history. That said, it never hurts to add a little context to current events. So. In September of 2011, DC Comics relaunched their entire superhero universe with fifty-two brand new ongoing series functioning in a bright new continuity. Since then, the company has used September as a large-scale event month, using 2012 to flashback to the unexplored “early days” of the new continuity, and 2013 to unleash their villains across each and every one of their titles. Conceptually, there’s nothing wrong with this. The comic book industry thrives off of the occasional event as the eyeballs gained from the news of a line-wide disruption usually translates into higher profits. It was the reason why DC’s line-wide relaunch in 2011 was shatteringly successful for that month (and several after), and why their flashback month in 2012 garnered a slight bump in sales, despite a comparatively lower profile concept and easier execution.

Considering that William Gibson's Neuromancer is one of my favorite books of all times, you'd think I'd have remembered that there was a comics...

Brave New World Comics - The Pop Culture Superstore from Fe Bandana Pictures on Vimeo. This is a little short film/advertisement that was made...