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Green Lantern’s Indie Writers Movement

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As reported earlier, DC Comics has announced their new lineup for the Green Lantern family of titles and they're going for new blood.  Geoff...

Steven Sanders launches Symbiosis on Kickstarter

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Artist and designer Steven Sanders, curly of beard and intense of eyes, launched a Kickstarter yesterday for his new project Symbiosis. A massive 100+...

Review: The Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz: bio, booze and books

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The Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz Koyama Press I have a complicated and knotty relationship with auto-bio comics, beset by apprehension and cynicism. There's no doubt the...

San Diego Comic-Con Badge-o-ween 2013: the virtual lottery

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Everyone hit go, complain, spinning wheel, white room, waiting list, unfair, people got in ahead of me, don't refresh!, crying, spinning wheel, oh god you hit refresh no why oh god no, why isn't there a lottery, Comic-Con sucks, hooray this is going to be the best week of my life, etc etc etc.

Review: Judge Dredd #1-3 (IDW)

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This is the second go-round with a US-based Judge Dredd series.  DC tried their hand at Dredd for 18 issues of the main title...

Comics sales are back at 1994 levels, dawg

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Industry analyst John Jackson Miller has taken the Bookscan numbers posted by Brian Hibbs, and added them with the Diamond year-end sales charts, and then triangulated them with a cosine angle, trapped the outlines in their own layer, tossed the results with a bit of olive oil and garlic, and presented it all for you to read. The above infographic gives a visual representation of sales for each product (GNs and periodical) in various channels; as Miller points out, library and digital sales are not included and the Bookscan numbers are very low, but the end result is a combined comics market of more than $700 million, which Miller notes, is the first time comics sales have reached this level since 1993 or 1994, the high times of speculation and chromium covers.

Interview: The Odyssey of Neal Adams

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Interviewing Neal Adams over at the New Statesman in the run up to this month’s London Super Comic Con, we chatted about his legendary...

REVIEW: A Whirlwind Tour of the DOCTOR WHO OMNIBUS, Volume 1

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IDW’s first volume of the collected DOCTOR WHO OMNIBUS is a compact but substantial little tome gathering two long story arcs (“Agent Provacateur” and...

Indie Month-to-Month Sales December 2012

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It’s pretty much as you were in a fairly quiet month for new books. Boom’s dollar-book Deathmatch and the return of Hellboy, alongside a new Adventure Time spin-off and Brian Wood’s new book Mara are the notable debuts. Walking Dead, Saga & My Little Pony top the chart again, elsewhere the Image Firsts reprint programme features strongly, and a few long running licensed books end ahead of relaunches.

BookScan: Kids’ comics and The Walking Dead ruled bookstore sales in 2012

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It's my FAVORITE day of the year, when Brian Hibbs posts the year-end sales from bookstores via the Bookscan chart. Now we know these numbers are significantly low, but as I always say, they present a metric. The huge take away? Well, we all knew The Waking Dead was a juggernaut,—sales in this franchise would have made it the #3 publisher all by itself—but after that it's kids comics all the way, led by the maybe-comics of Dork Diaries, but following by Big Nate, Ninjago, Ursula Vernon's Dragonbreath, Drama and so on.

Second Opinion: Batman #17

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Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman #17 came out this week, concluding their 'Death of the Family' storyline to universal approval from reviewers. But...

A Con Comes to Grand Rapids

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Even as folks tape up their combat boots for the San Diego badge scramble, more modest events are springing up everyone -- even Grand Rapids, MI, which is getting the Grand Rapids Comic-Con on October 12 in Wyoming, Michigan. Organizer Mark Hodges is realistic about this first time show—he expects 2000-3000 people to attend event, to be held at the Home School Building—but can't ignore the visions dancing in his head of a future show that draws 30,000 people, even if he can't afford Ron Perlman this time.

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