Indie Month-to-Month Sales July 2013
A triumphant return for Fathom, albeit one backed by a price-promotion, and a full price relaunch for Red Sonja join Matt Fraction’s Satellite Sam as the big debuts this month, and East of West and Lazarus cement their places in the upper part of the chart. Elsewhere are a clutch of strong mid-level launches, and a slightly worrying series of drops for Valiant.
Reviewed! Every Issue of Villains Month, Week One
DC sent along a lovely pack of review copies for Villains Week, and I feel like it's only fair that I read through all...
Sales Charts: Amazon sales rankings show some digital outselling some print
Oh yeah, speaking of Amazon, we're been awfully inconsistent about posting the weekly Amazon sales rankings compiled by Dave Carter, but here's last Friday's...
Hyperbole and a Half the book is coming in October
This news has been around for a while, but it never got it's own item, so here it is: Hyperbole and a Half, Allie...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 9/4/13: Alternative Comics is having a 20th Anniversary sale
Longtime alt publisher Wow Cool is having a 20th Anniversary Sale for Alternative Comics, which it purchased last year. Over 100 titles are on...
Mark Waid becomes a comics retailer
Over the holiday, Mark Waid announced that he is crossing the last frontier of comics prodom by becoming a partner in his local comics...
Jeff Smith on tour for RASL all fall
The complete RASL by Jeff Smith is out this week, and he'll be touring all over the place—from SPC to CAB—throughout the fall. Here's...
Stan Lee has an archive, but you will probably never be able to see...
In an era when more and more collection of personal comics papers are being given to scholarly institutions (Columbia's Karen Green and OSU's Jenny Robb being among the leaders of this particular movement) it came as a bit of a surprise to be reminded where Stan Lee's papers are housed: Laramie, WY. Sequential Tart's Katie Frank made the arduous journey to the archive at the University of Wyoming, braving raging rivers, scaling giant redwoods and sustained on morning dew from maple leaves, but she made it.
What Should You Buy in September? Gareth Brookes, Gene Luen Yang, Ed Piskor, Villains...
September! New month, new comics, new things to look out for. We had a wander round the solicitations and picked out the comics we're...
Tell-all book on the Spidey musical is on its way
About 10 years ago, when I ran a tiny item on a proposed Spider-Man musical with music by U2 on the old Comicon-com site,...
Steve Orlando discusses his gay-action Kickstarter graphic novel
"Imagine DIE HARD if John McClane was killing terrorists to save his partner."
Steve Orlando is trying to raise $15,000 to crowdfund his latest graphic...
iFanboy joins the 2013 comics media disruption
As you probably heard over the holiday, iFanboy is packing in its "day to day" operations, which seemed like a euphemistic way of saying...
