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This year, publishers have distributed fifty-two titles for Free Comic Book Day this Saturday. While it is not uncommon for many comics shops to order all...

As we've been noting, literary awards for graphic novels are becoming more common everywhere, and here's a new one: The 9th Art Award. The prize is a joint venture between Graphic Scotland and the Edinburgh International Book Festival and will be presented this August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

At C2E2 the sad, event-born death of longtime Marvel character Luke Cage was reported on by Patrick Reed and worth quoting at length: The audience...

Destination X by John Martz Nobrow I would just like to take a moment to squee a little over the pairing of Nobrow and John Martz:...

Pop culture is a bizarre creature and often creates strange intersections in media. Brooklyn-based artist Jen Ferguson has found herself standing at a cross-roads...

Matt Fraction skyped in to celebrate Iron Man’s 50th anniversary at a Comic Book Round Table event held at John Ordover's Soho Gallery for...

Iron Man is smashing records and breaking hearts, and it hasn't even hit the States. Grab your fleece snuggie, oversized soda container, popcorn jug,...

Given the week's events, looking at the above photo by Dynamite's Nick Barrucci taken at the C2E2 bar—the creme de la creme of comics internet media, Newsarama's Albert Ching, CBR's Kiel Phegley, The Beat, ComicVine's Tony G.Man Guerrero and IGN's Joey Exposito—you might be forgiven for wondering which member of the comic press would soon have a big red X drawn over his or her face. It was that kind of week.

As reported last week, the incarceration and legal maneuvering of accused sex offender and Drgon*Con founder Ed Kramer has led more people, including professionals, to call for a boycott of the con while Keamer is receiving money for it. Tony Isabella, who attended the con far in the past, still has what might be termed a vivid account of it:

Indefatigable Jamie Coville recorded the most interesting panels from C2E2—including the one The Beat was on!—for your listening pleasure. He also took 143 pictures.

Dan Slott did say, prior to the launch of Amazing Spider-Man #700, that he was going to turn into Dark Dan and start using...