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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.

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

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.

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...

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...

As expected, the district court has ruled that the 2001 settlement agreement between DC and the Siegels is binding and did indeed transfer the...

It's been an... eventful couple of days around DC's HQs. There's a little more information slipping out around the Superman and Green Lantern franchises. First...

The relaunch of Captain Marvel, with Carol Danvers in the title role, started off very shakily. The first six-issues told a time-travel story which...

I think we can finally throw some dirt on the coffin of the Neil Gaiman - Todd McFarlane lawsuit.  The New York Times has announced that...

It's a modern comic book cliche.  Need sales?  Kill off a character.  Preferably a big enough character than it can make all the newspapers...

Part of yesterday's "March Surprise" for DC Comics—confirmation that two popular writers were walking off their books due to editorial interference—was another odd fragment...

It's been a HUGE month for webcomics projects on Kickstarter with no less than four six-figure projects. The Cyanide and Happiness crew netted $770,309...