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Mike Baron is best known as the co-creator of Nexus and Badger, two of the signature comics series of the indie 80s. While the ups and downs of his nexus co-conspirator Steve Rude have been pretty well documented, what about Baron? We hear he's got a revamp of the Badger simmering at the resurrected First Comics. But he's also staying incredibly busy turning out novels by the bushel. In fact he has turned out three in recent months, with appropriately pulpy covers. Yes they are e-books, but no feverish novel about a spook called in to discover why the world's leaders are spontaneously combusting is complete without a pulpy cover!

The case of Jerry Ordway -- a talented veteran artist who is not getting as much work as he should— continues to resonate. It isn't really about Jerry Ordway. it's about comics, and about the manny many aspirants and passers by and the few who are called. Mark Evanier addresses the odds:

Every so often Tharg gets on the blower and gives me a ring, to tell me about new things coming up at 2000AD, the...

J. Michael Straczynski has had a strange ride in comics over the last few years.  The Twelve, which finally wrapped up last year, was highly...

I was sent the first issue of this miniseries from Art Heroes a few months ago, where it seemed like a fun, all-ages series...

Kickstarter has been a talking point in the comics industry ever since its conception, most recently and prominently for the fallout between Mark Andrew Smith and...

Walking Dead sees a big rise as expected, while Saga and Buffy sandwich the new Star Wars book, and Invincible’s one hundredth issue. Elsewhere, it’s a good month for all-ages comics, and Image have their usual batch of debuts. Dynamite have a poorer month than usual for sales drops, but a round of relaunches are on the horizon.

by Amy Chu Toronto ComiCon this past weekend was my first convention experience in Canada and a very positive one. Organized by FanExpo, it is...

The February sales estimates are in over at The Comics Chronicles and what a strange February it was. DC papered over a decaying mess at...

This May Fantagraphics is releasing OTHER STUFF, a compilation of various strips by Peter Bagge and his friends like Dan Clowes, Gilbert Hernandez, and R. Crumb. The stories in the book are mostly outside the famed Buddy Bradley saga, but no less hilarious.

If you've ever wanted to own the definitive version of Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise saga, it's available once again in Omnibus form. ...

Frequent collaborators on mysteriously short-lived Image projects, Jim Zub and Edwin Huang have been announced as the creative team for a new issue #1 from...