Venom Will End in October
As implied by its absence from Marvel's November solicitations, and now confirmed by the publisher on their website, the ongoing Venom series is to...
Snowpiercer to be Dumbed Down for American Audience
Snowpiercer opened in South Korea earlier this month to rave reviews and box-office breaking sales. But the 126 minute film, based on popular bande dessinée...
Why your Bronze Age comics collection ain’t worth squat
Frank Santoro is at it again, in the aptly titled American Pickers in which he advises a friend's father that a comics collection with stickers...
Seaguy Eternal: The Script, It Lives! And Morrison’s Full Answers on Seaguy.
After I reported in The Guardian yesterday that Seaguy Eternal had been written and was hopefully due for release next year, there was a...
Preview: The Hit #1 by Bryce Carlson and Vanesa R. Del Rey
A few days ago, some art from the upcoming title HIT by Bryce Carlson and Vanesa R. Del Rey stormed the internet. Published...
Taipei Comic Exhibition draws more than 582,000 people
If you asked us what the world' biggest comics show was, we'd say Comiket, which just wrapped up in Tokyo the other day, and...
Paper Rocket launches Gretta Johnson’s Star Fruit
Paper Rocket is one of the thriving micropublishers now on the scene; it's run by Robyn Chapman, herself a mighty fine cartoonist, and she's...
Online graphic novel price war underway
ICv2 reports on Overstock.com's price war with Amazon. Basically the online retailer is matching Amazon's deep discounts on books—despite losing money on these discounts—in an effort to become more of an alternative to Amazon.
The Amazing Cynicalman Vol. II is coming from Matt Feazell
Mini-comics and stick-figure philosophy pioneer Matt Feazall has been turning out his delightful mini-comics since the 80s. Now he had an Indiegogo campaign going for The Amazing Cynicalman Vol. 2, a collection of his weekly strips from 2002 on.
Wonder Woman, Zenith and New Seaguy: Laura Sneddon Interviews Grant Morrison
Laura Sneddon, whom we claim as our own and have dubbed 'Sneddsy' against her protestations, today has an interview with Grant Morrison up on...
Boom Set Up Facebook Page for Artistic Submissions
Breaking into the comics industry is both the easiest thing and hardest thing imaginable to do, for new artists. There are now endless forums...
So what kind of person buys a “Torture variant” cover anyway? (NSFW, trigger images)
I know everyone tsk tsk's Avatar's habit of putting out gory, exploitive covers, but seriously, after looking at some of their "torture variant" covers, I find myself asking "WHAT KIND OF SICK FUCK BUYS THIS SHIT????" I get the appeal of a little transgressive gore now and then, but these are basically images of sawed off limbs, flaying and twisted sexual situations that make Mark Millar look like Hannah Montana.
