DC ROUND-UP: A new vision in SUICIDE SQUAD: BLAZE #1
Plus, The Joker #12, I Am Batman #6, and more...
Report: Periodical comics sales were up 49% in 2021
Total year sales charts for 2021 are coming out all over, and the consensus is: it was a great year, in bookstore, in comics shops, for graphic novels, for comic books. Online. Out of line. Everywhere.
Spike Trotman launches indie crowdfunding campaign for The Poorcraft Cookbook
Spike Trotman's Iron Circus Comics has responded to Kickstarter's move to blockahin by running their own crowding funding campaign.
New developments: Warren Ellis, Action Lab, Image Comics vs CBWU
There have been significant developments in several ongoing news stories regarding Warren Ellis, Action Lab and Image Comics
Steve Wacker exits Marvel to edit Jonathan Hickman’s Substack universe
Highly respected Marvel vp Steve Wacker has left Marvel's digital content division to become editor-in-chief of Three Worlds, Three Moons, Jonathan HIckman's Substack publishing venture.
Diamond: King Spawn and Department of Truth topped 2021 comics sales
It was a big year for Spawn and a huge year for James Tynion IV, according to 2021 sales charts just released by Diamond Comics. Image Comics’ King Spawn #1, from Todd McFarlane, Sean Lewis, and Javier Fernandez, was the best-selling comic book of 2021.
Castellucci & Biondi team for new Berger Books graphic novel SHIFTING EARTH
The new Dark Horse Comics book follows a botanist transported to an alien world in the midst of a climate crisis.
EXCLUSIVE: INTO THE BEWILDERNESS, cartoonist Gus Gordon’s debut graphic novel, coming from Clarion Books...
The graphic novel, set for release in 2024, will also be published in Australia & New Zealand by Hardie Grant.
Report: Graphic novel sales were up 65% in 2021
Graphic novels had their best year for sales ever, in 2021, with sales up overall 65% led by spectacular growth in the manga category.
PREVIEW: It’s Billy the Kid’s last stand in THE HEATHENS #4
The penultimate issue of the series arrives later this month.
REVIEW: With SAGA #55, Vaughan & Staples pick back up without missing a beat
Hazel and family are back, and the series is as engrossing as ever.
MIKE PELLERITO named new Archie Comics EiC
The 22-year veteran of the publisher will oversee newsstand and book markets.
