The Loot Crate Effect Reaches “Cartoonish Levels” on Comics Sales

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Note: The distribution numbers used below are estimates, not hard sales numbers.  They're accurate to the trends, but take the exact unit measurements with...

UDON to unleash the Persona 4 manga in English this September

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Picture it. 2008. I was a bored twenty-something who hadn't touched a console game in years. Through random internet searching, as these bored young...

Prez Visits the Stately Beat Manor Staff Comics Pull for 6/17/15

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  With the new Prez series launching next week as part of the New DC You(niverse) members of The Beat were attempting to do everything...

Being a cartoonist by the numbers…and the numbers are ugly

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  Being in comics is great, it's a golden era, new readers, yadda yadda. But this golden era is mostly the product of people slaving...

Universal Television to bring Heroes Reborn to Hall H

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Universal television announces its big Sunday panel

Batman Day returns in September

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It's going to be Batman day again! But it's a great promotion and adds another holiday to the Comics Calendar. Celebrate by brooding and going to a charity ball.

SDCC ’15 Exclusive Funko Toy Announcements

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By Nick Eskey Funko, the company best known for their “POP!” line of figurines, will be releasing a plethora (great word huh?) of Comic Con...

The Peanuts Movie trailer showcases a potential November gem

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The new trailer for The Peanuts Movie has arrived, and it's a 2015 release that hasn't gotten a lot of notice, but based on...

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods tv series officially green lit by Starz

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Fans of the Sandman scribe rejoice: Starz announced today that they have officially green lit an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's New York Times bestselling novel American Gods.

Interview: Brandon Graham on Humor, Fantasy, and Art in 21st Century Comics

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Brandon Graham is a maverick. He is most famous for his work on 2009's King City, but has worked in comics since the 1990s, getting his...

May sales: The Loot Crate effect lifts all boats

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By John Jackson Miller -- Marvel's Secret Wars revival made a big splash in the comics market in May, moving more than 527,000 copies to comic shops in North America. That's according to Comichron's estimates for May 2015 comics sales based on information released by Diamond Comic Distributors. You can find the report here. That's enough to place the issue fourth on the list of best-selling comics of the century, and it could go higher with reorders. It came in a month when strong six-figure launches from A-Force and Old Man Logan, and a dominating performance from Batman: Earth 2 Vol. 2 on the graphic novel charts helped push the market to a 13% increase.

Review: Seeing Ghosts and Robots in “Empty Zone” #1

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By Nick Eskey   Writer: Jason Shawn Alexander Artist: Jason Shawn Alexander Color: Luis Nct Letters: Sherard Jackson Publisher: Image Comics     Have you heard about the story set in a neo-noir dystopian...

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