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Dynamite is joining Valiant, Marvel and Secret Acres as comics companies with a New York City presence as they've announced a branch office opening...

DC is bringing back several cult favorite characters back in a big way.  In the beginning of 2016, DC will debut eight miniseries meant...

Marvel's Secret Wars crushed it for periodical, while Images graphic novels crushed it in June sales just released by Diamond. Secret Wars #3 was the top over all comic, and Marvel had 7 or the top 10 slots and held a commanding 15% lead over DC in both units and dollars. DC You seems to have yet to find its footing. The other stat that jumped out at us: GN's were wayyyyyy up for the month -- like 31.35% up. Image was the reason and normally you see this kind of leap when a new Walking Dead comics out, but this time it was Wytches by Scott Snyder and Jock, along with a strong debut for Fraction and Ward's ODY-c—and perhaps more interestingly, a month of Marvel titles, including perennial Civil War and a new Thanos GN by Jim Starlin. Could Marvel actually be shoring up their backlist?

We just told you about the huge deal between French comics publisher Delcourt and Comixology to being a line of French comics to English via digital. Now here's one example of why it's big, an exclusive preview of the English language version of Pénélope Bagieu's Josephine. Bagieu is hugely popular in France for her down to earth comics about contemporary life. Her Exquisite Corpse was just published earlier this year by First Second; Josephine is her long running comic about a young woman with the usual complicated and annoying life—at least one of the strips below describes just about every day of my life, but I'll let you guess which.

Evan "Doc" Shaner is quickly becoming one of the most sought after names in comics. After his critically acclaimed collaboration at Dynamite with Jeff...

First big announcement of the week: Delcourt, the biggest independent comics publisher in France, will release a line of their book in English for...

The internet will surely be the death of me. It will probably be somebody saying some petty racist stuff that will do it. My eyes...

Image by Ward Sutton Happy fourth to all! I'm taking it easy on the pre San Diego news to run errands, upgrade my laptop and...

As anticipated, writer James Robinson has made a statement to GLAAD  about the controversy over the issue of Airboy #2, which we reported on earlier...

By Victor Van Scoit We may know Marvel's movie slate well into 2018, but there's still some unknowns when it comes to their directors. While...

When creators James Robinson and Greg Hinkle showed me a copy of the first issue of Airboy back at NYCC last year, my jaw...

As I noted a few weeks back, Tokyopop, the company that came in changed comics and then crashed and burned, suspending publication for the most part back in 2011, is coming back as announced on a panel at Anime Expo with plans to begin publishing again in 2016" announced by founder Stu Levy.