2017 may be a rough year for comics retail and the industry–or not
Are comics sales slipping or stagnating as we enter 2017? Some signs point to yes, as you can see from the November sales figures released earlier today. While the sales decline earlier in the year has been reversed to a net positive thanks to the Rebirth surge, as retailers Joe Field of Flying Colors tweeted earlier this week, there is a sense of worry out there.
Saga, Bitch Planet, Patience among the 2017 Official Selections for Angoulême prizes
The Official Selections 2017 for the FauvesOfficial Selections 2017 for the Fauves, the comics awards presented every year at the Angoulême comics festival, have been announced, with a generous...
IDW opens Portland office for new imprint, Woodworks, to be run by Dirk Wood
Like every other comics publisher, IDW is going Portland! Not with their whole operations, but they're opening a satellite office to be run by industry...
Fantagraphics to launch All Time Comics line of….superhero comics??? UPDATED
UPDATE: Just added the press release with a lot more info below. Worth noting: Rich Buckler, who is contributing to the issue, once sued...
PSX’16: The #Sweet6 games of PlayStation Experience 2016
What a show PSX 2016 was. Between the major announcements, tournaments, panels, and autograph signings, I managed to play an awful lot of games...
Only known Fletcher Hanks painting found in barn!
Fletcher Hanks is a cult cartoonist whose carer spanned only a few years - 1939 to 1941 - but in that time he produced a...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 12/7/16: When Patricia Highsmith dated Stan Lee
§ The classic and essential Comic Book History of Comics by Fred van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey is being rereleased in a color edition at...
MoCCA Festival announced for April 1-2 with Blutch, Yang and more
The Society of Illustrators has just announced some details for the 2017 MoCCA Festival in New York. It will be held at the same place as...
Bad Little Children’s Books was so bad it won’t be published any more
When I first saw the book Bad Little Children's Books by the pseudonymous Arthur C. Gackley, flipping through it at my local bookstore, I thought...
Rick Veitch is back with the first issue of Rare Bit Fiends in 20...
Rick Veitch is back with the first new issue of his dream comic in 20 years!
The new trailer for LEGION provides a hopeful cure for your Winter TV doldrums
Step into the mind of David Haller...
