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New York Comic Con 2020: A Look Back

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Well, the fifteenth New York Comic Con just concluded ten days of pop cultural programming in Manhattan.  While ReedPOP does not release exact data...

First Look: FF #1 by Fraction and Allred

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Here's a look at a book that a lot of people will want to look at, the wacky new take on the FF by...

Lil’ Gotham Arrives Today as a Digital-First Comic

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Yes we're all attempting to adjust to life in this new, crazy, Disney-owning-Lucasfilm landscape, but let's return to comics for just a little bit,...

George Lucas On The Disney Sale In His Own Words (Video)

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Not one, but two videos have popped up with George Lucas talking about sending his intellectual properties and sundry companies over to Disney. First, from...

Disney Buy Lucasfilm; Announce New Star Wars Film

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This may be delirium setting in, but it seems that Disney have acquired Lucasfilm today for the princely sum of $4.05 billion. This means...

Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion

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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

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  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

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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

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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

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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 &...

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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

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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.

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