Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion
Details are still emerging, but Disney chairman Bob Iger has just announced Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion. It was a cash-and-stock deal...
Monkeybrain Pledge all November Profits to The Hero Initiative
Chris Roberson, co-founder of the digital publisher Monkeybrain Comics, has put out an open letter today explaining that for the whole of November, all...
Beat Chat! with Wolverine & The X-Men’s Creative Team
Marvel called again tonight, wanting to talk to me about another one of their Marvel Now comics. This time however, their focus was on...
Comic-Con renews contract to stay in San Diego through 2016
How times change. Whereas in past years, San Diego city fathers and mothers were indifferent at best to the pop culture behemoth running through their streets, the battle for the con in 2010 seems to have permanently changed attitudes. After a protracted negotation over where to hold the show in 2013 and beyond, Comic-Con and the city agreed to a three-year contract, running through 2015. However, perhaps fearful of another battle for the con, SD mayor Jerry Sanders has preemptively announced Comic-Con has signed a one year extension for 2016.
Random House and Penguin announce merger
As rumored last week, two major publishing companies Random House and Penguin have merged, creating one big Franken-publisher that will control 25% of...
Kicking Skulls and Making A Name For Himself: Jim Zub on Story, Sales &...
By Matt O'Keefe
Jim Zubkavich has been creating comics since he began self-publishing Makeshift Miracle in 2001, but he really broke onto the scene in...
INTERVIEW: David Gallaher, King of Digital
Over the last ten or so years, one thing has been guaranteed: where there are new ways of developing and progressing digital comics, there you will find David Gallaher. Writer for a variety of comics including High Moon, Box 13, Darkstar & The Winter Guard and Deadlands, Gallaher has been at the forefront of digital comics for years. Amongst others he was involved with the DC digital project Zuda, had the first original content published by ComiXology, and has recently successfully brought his new graphic novel Only Living Boy to Kickstarter.
Marvel’s Next Big Thing: Captain America
The final Marvel phonecall of the week was for Rick Remender and John Romita Jr’s Captain America relaunch. More than the other calls, this...
Studio Coffee Run: Arrow, The Walking Dead, Kickass 2, The Hobbit, etc.
While the 2nd episode of Season 3 of The Walking Dead dropped in the ratings from the first episode, it still topped the ratings...
Good Work, Comics!
Is there nowhere in the world of culture which can stay positive for more than five minutes!? This week we found out that not...
Apple features Madefire in iPad mini rollout
The biggest players in the comics space may soon be (or already are) Apple, Google and Amazon, and at least two of them are...
Comics: for one fantastic moment, everything was OK
Is this the magic moment? Probably. Or as a recent ICv2 headline put it:Comic Retailers Cautiously Ecstatic, following the "Return of the Pamphlet." Despite the innate caution, pessimism and low self-image endemic to the comics industry, it seems that following a year of improved sales, general awareness, mainstream recognition and booming live events, the comics industry has taken a moment to kick back the recliner and crack open a frosty one:
