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Break into comics with Neal Adams, Kevin Smith, and the million dollar UcreateComics —...

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...and then take a long, long time to finish them. Just kidding. This new buddy pictures in the making will tour four cities as...

Interview: Will Brooker on My So-Called Secret Identity, A New Kind of Superhero Comic

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Rave reviews from across the press, prominent features in the mainstream media, and plaudits from huge names within the industry; this new comic is...

4.6 million comics ordered for Free Comic Book Day

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More free comics are being given away than ever before! Diamond has announced that 4.6 million free comics were ordered for this year's Free Comic Book Day, to be held Saturday, May 4th. That's up from 3,500,000 in 2012 and 2,700,000 in 2011.

ComiXology’s game-changing Submit portal has opened

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Well, digitally publishing your comic for mobile and tablets just got as easy as an upload. ComiXology has unveiled its Submit portal, which allows...

Finally the reality show about cartoonists: Strip Search

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STRIP SEARCH, the reality show about a house full of cartoonists competing for $15K and a year of "being embedded" at Penny Arcade, debuted earlier this week. You can watch the first episode above and the second episode is now up as well. The show is produced by the Penny Arcade crew, with Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins as judges. (They ran a half million dollar Kickstarter to fund the show last year) 12 cartoonists -- six male, six female, are flown to a house in Seattle to compete for the prize, in the classic format. The 12, chosen from a thousand entrants, are mostly webcomickers, but more on that in a bit.

Doing it their way: Cyanide & Happiness

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Since we've been talking about career paths and what not for the last few days, here's another one: after turning down three TV development deals, including Comedy Central, the webcomic Cyanide & Happiness has decided to go DIY.

Beverage review: This stuff is da bomb

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If you've been following me on the internet for any length of time, you know I have always been obsessed with finding the perfect refreshing drink, whether it's long gone Pepsi Blue, Code Red, Ca Phe Sua instant coffee, Starbuck's much missed Tazo Berry Chai, Dunkin Donuts' Mango Fruit Blast and so on. Well, here is a new one, the Bai5 line of antioxidant waters. I was describing my favorite flavor, Congo Pear, the other day and said "It's got real pear juice and coffee fruit and white tea extract! It's a water-based drink!" to which someone replied "So it's pear-flavored coffee tea water?"

Wood/Coipel’s X-Men Relaunch Moved to May

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Brian Wood and Oliver Coipel's relaunch of X-Men with Jubilee, Storm, Rogue, Rachel Grey, Kitty Pryde and the other one has been moved back...

New IRON MAN 3 trailer

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"Urgent superhero" music motive? Check Hero in a wifebeater? Check CGI helicopters at sunset? Check Hero questioning the meaning of his role as superhero vs his personal...

Advance Review: Viva Lost Vegas #1 (spoiler-free!)

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Reuniting the team behind the Eisner award winning Return of the Dapper Men, Lost Vegas is a fun mix of science fiction space play...

Jerry Ordway responds and more on comics career paths

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Following yesterday's much quoted post on wanting to be hired, artist Jerry Ordway responded to the outpouring of support with more on the perils of exclusives and the freelancers life:

Thought Bubble 2013’s Guest Line Up So Far – 10 girls, 11 guys

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Thought Bubble 2013 have announced a second list of guests for their convention this year, which, I notice, means the convention has a brilliant...

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