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On the Scene: MegaCon: Three is A Magic Number

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  By Amy Chu Last week's MegaCon in Orlando marked my third convention in three weeks. Seattle's Emerald City and Toronto ComiCon were fantastic, but I...

A Snap Seen Around the World: What Happens when Superhero Films Get Grim?

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The biggest success for comics over the past five years hasn't actually been comics at all: it's been the movie industry. Superhero films are...

On the Scene: Sparks Fly at ‘Surely You’re Joking, Dr. Wertham’ Event

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As the first of several “Comic Book Roundtable” events to be held at the Soho Gallery of Digital Art under the auspices of gallery...

It’s official: John Stewart is going to live!

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After a mini PR meltdown over DC editorial's leaked plans to kill John Stewart, the long running Green Lantern character who is considered DC's...

REVIEW: ‘Shoot This’, FORCEFIELD FOTOCOMIX, #.01

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Photocomix are strange creatures. They look like a hybrid of a photography medium and a comics format, and when you spot them in the...

Nice Art: Alessandro Micelli

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On his Tumblr, he mentions that he also owns a pizzeria, which would make him possibly the most popular cartoonist of all times.

DC to publish digital comics based on 1966 Batman

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Holy licensing deal, Batman! It seems that the campy, kitschy 1966 version of Batman—which was long verboten to be mentioned at DC and WB in general due to it's campy, kitschy nature. But as many noted, a line of toys based on the show was introduced at Toy Fair, and now we see that a whole line of merchandise, including a digital-first comic -- is coming.

DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: February 2013

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As DC keeps clowning around and pushing hard to single-handedly choke the concept of irony to death by summer, the company's average and total sales figures for new comic books performed solidly in the month of February. After hiring Bob Harras, hiring Rob Liefeld, hiring every writer and artist who worked at Marvel in 1999, releasing a Green Lantern title especially for kids, releasing more Watchmen comics several of which written by J. Michael Straczynski, making a habit of hiring, promoting, then firing creative personnel on all kinds of titles every month, releasing Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill, hiring a raging homophobe to write Superman and announcing "WTF month," in February 2013 DC released Justice League of America #1, a new high-profile Geoff Johns vehicle promoted with not one, not three, not 12, but 54 different cover choices, thus making it something like the lynchpin of gimmick-driven market gaming. I mean, the plastic-ring thing from a couple of years back was a fair stab, but this one is bolder.

Webcomic Alert: Bookmark Jason Little’s BORB

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Whoa! Jason Little -- BeeComix, Shutterburg Follies—has launched a daily webcomic called BORB and it concerns a hobo and his hobo-adventures.

Interview: Bob Fingerman on remaking Minimum Wage and making a career

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Bob Fingerman talks about the new definitive version of Minimum Wage, surviving as a cartoonist, why people like the apocalypse and more in a wide ranging interview.

Sullivan’s Sluggers is back on IndieGogo

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If first you don't succeed.... If you've been following the SULLIVAN'S SLUGGERS controversy—catch up here and here—you know that writer Mark Andrew Smith has gotten...

New Devices and the Digital Comics Landscape

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by Bruce Lidl The last few weeks have seen a number of big developments in the digital comics realm, from the highs of Marvel’s big announcements at SXSW...

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