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The nominations for this year's British Comic Awards, held during November's Thought Bubble Convention in Leeds, have been officially opened this week. In addition,...

Marvel Now rolls on into February. This month's major events are the relaunch of UNCANNY X-MEN, the "Point One" prologue issue for GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, the return of NOVA with Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness, and a new take on SECRET AVENGERS. More generally, the first wave of relaunched titles have now been around long enough that we're starting to get a sense of which ones are already settling down, and which ones aren't. Though DC had the top selling book of the month - JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA - Marvel still had the largest share of the North American direct market, leading DC by 38% to 33% in units and 35% to 29% in dollars.

Dynamite has announced the second tile in its new "Crime Line."  Uncanny will be the new title from Andy Diggle and Aaron Campbell, concerning...

Marvel continue to tempt me with their extraordinary cover designs that are leaving many other publishers in the shade. Coming to Fearless Defenders blind...

While we all know the San Diego Comic-Con reigns as the biggest, loudest, most stressful and exciting media event in the world, we've also...

As we suspected when the news broke, the removal of Persepolis from the seventh grade curriculum at a Chicago high school turned in to a minor media circus pretty quickly, with school officials saying different things all over the place. If you missed all the confusion, the Chicago Tribune has the authoritative round up and Claire Kirch covers it for PW. Basically it emerged that the book was not being removed from school libraries or all schools, but it is being removed from the 7-10 grade curriculum where it is is currently being taught. The person who seems to have decided that is at the very top: Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennnet who wrote

Three pretty interesting posts on book sales and Amazon which, if you triangulate them, give you a good look at where the publishing business stands this Monday morning as Winter turns into Spring 2013:

It's been rumored for a long time that Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin have been working on a new project together. Here is...

Jeebus, its getting so you can't even throw a SMALL press show without melting servers and frustrated tweets. Table registration for this year's Small Press Expo went live yesterday at noon, EDT. And it seems that the servers promptly crashed due to the overwhelming demand. While we missed the actual event, it's pretty easy to follow the trail of the tweets:

Warrior took nearly a year from its original inception in the spring of 1981 to finally reaching the shelves in March 1982. The contents...

You might have heard that Greg Rucka and Michael Lark have a comic coming out from Image.  It's called Lazarus and it's coming out...

I noticed a common feature in the comics I was reading this week, a feature that made them all compelling as stories: the role...