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Con be damned, it's MoCCA Time -- I'll be running some previews and debuts througout the day -- but here's all the party poop...

Scotland has been missing some good superheroes recently, and especially giant hulking shirtless ginger ones. Luckily that's all changed thanks to Saltire, a new...

Comics sales continued to look anemic in March, with sales down  4.40% in dollars and 9.85% in units over a year ago for year...

If you are a MoCCA Fest old timer, you remember one of the fun parts of the Puck Building days was that after the...

Photo of Kalustyan's via Five years of MoCCA at the Lexington Armory! We've seen a lot of pizza come and go. Although the area surrounding...

The two most powerful people in comics— Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige—were both the subject of fairly hagiographic profiles recently. The Feige piece in Businessweek was probably the more revelatory, as it offered ACTUAL INFORMATION on the very secretive Marvel Studios process, and the legacy of Ike, such as the following account of the dorm-level offices.

We noted the other day that a new art dealer—Felix Comic Art— was offering rarely seen pages from Bryan Lee O' Malley's Scott Pilgrim...

I gots the con cruds which has killed The Beat dead in its tracks. Sorry about this lost week. Hopefully back in the flow...

With ECCC only a dwindling memory and a box of kleenex from the con crud everyone caught, C2E2 is bearing down on us on April 25-27. Chicago's biggest comics event will have the usual line-up of guests from all areas of the industry. However, the website panel listings don't allow you to see the whole thing at one, but courtesy of ReedPOP's Marykate Nagourney, here is the whole list of programming in an easy to find way. Highlights include a storytelling panel with Amanda Conner and Cully Hamner, Mark Waid on his digital and retailing exploits, Christina Blanch and Carol Tilley on various comics and academics topics, and the usual MArvel, DC, Dark Horse, Boom and so on panels

Speaking of Marvel and diversity, in 2002, Marvel published a Cage mini written by Brian Azzarello with art by Richard Corben. It was rough,...

Marvel's EIC Axel Alonso and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort were back on a press call to talk about Original SinS wth an S, a companion anthology to Original Sin, the current Marvel Event mini series which kicks off in May. Original SinS (that's my spelling for emphasis) will launch in June with bi-weekly shipping issues. The core of the anthology will be a Young Avengers serial written by Ryan North of Adventure Time fame, but the rest of the stories will include an eclectic line up of creators including Ramon Villalobos. James Robinson, Don Slott, Charles Soule, Mark Bagley and even Rick Geary, is drawing a Lockjaw story.

Every so often a comic arrests you on the spot, and you're drawn wholly into a new world, style, and story. It happens sometimes...