Black Mask Studios launches tubecomic platform this week
While Valiant's 9-figure movie deal is hard to beat for this week's news, they aren't the only comics publisher going multi media. Black Mask...
Lee and Didio on nuDC: the diverse diversity of diverseness
DC co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee gave a talk to comics journalists a few weeks back during the Burbank talent conference, and CBR...
Rebecca Taylor joins DC Comics editorial staff
So @BexTay has done some of my favorite Archaia books and now she's working with me at DC. I'm thrilled and know she's gonna...
AMC orders two seasons of Walking Dead prequel
Following the success of Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul, AMC has pre-emptively ordered two seasons of a Walking Dead spinoff series set before the original show.
Secret Wars Gets… Little
Skottie Young brings his "little" corner of the Marvel U to Secret Wars.
This is Groot—the comic book
Well the Raccoon and Starlord got their own books, so why not a tree? (And Gamora is coming, we're told.) Jeff Loveness, usually a...
Slate’s Cartoonist Studio Prize nominees announced
Slate and the Center for Cartoon Studies have teams up for the third annual Cartoonist Studio Prize nominees. Awards and a $1,000 prize are...
Ross Richie Wants to Push #ComicsForward (so I’m giving some direction)
Last month, via the BOOM! Studios PR mailing list, I received a letter, containing a copy of a guest editorial by Ross Richie, CEO and founder.
You...
James Gunn wants to make a We3 movie
Over the weekend, he had a little spare time, and director James Gunn answered a bunch of question on FB, summarized here. The one...
RIP: Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Manga pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi has passed away at age 79, according to a letter received by Paul Gravett. Tatsumi had been battling cancer for several years.
Tatsumi is best known as the pioneer of the "gekiga" style of manga (a term be invented), true to life stories of ordinary people. He own work featured haunting adult themes of alienation, dread and obsession. His autobiography A Drifting Life, depicting his struggles as an artist, won the Eisner award for Best Reality Based Work in 2010. He also won the World Outlook Award at Angoulême and the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/9/15: Secrets of the Manga Industry Revealed
§ Deb Aoki is the Charles Dickens of Storify, You may know her from that other one we mentioned recently, but she also put...













