Sweet Shop, the newest digital comics marketplace, launches to the public today with new additions to its publisher line up including Kodansha, Titan, Dynamite, and Abrams Comics Arts.
Held the day before Emerald City Comic Con, Image took their Image Expo on the road to The Showbox in Seattle for all the creator announcements of upcoming projects. The location was unique and perfect when you consider the many independent and up and coming bands that rolled through The Showbox in the past—plus how long Image has been associated with independent. The Showbox offered a sexy venue with lighting, chandeliers, and was already decorated for Image's Spring Formal later in the evening. Image Expo would offer many highlights and it was interesting to see when the audience connected most with the presentations during the day.
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Former DC Comics intern Gerard Way has just been given his very own imprint at the publisher. That's what we call working your way...
Ken Marcus, the man behind some of the funniest and/or most annoying Geico commercials of all times, gives some advice on how to market your indie comics gleaned from his years in advertising.
The audience migration from monthly comics to graphic novels (tpbs, if you prefer) has always been a fairly contentious thing. There’s not a lot of point in denying that the book format is continuing to make gains and a lot of new readers prefer it. When Paul Levitz writes about graphic novels being “a clear majority of sales,” it’s probably time for a wider range of people give up the ghost and talk about that format as an end game.
A group of 13 publishers have reached a settlement with the Diamond estate and Sparkle Pop to get their inventory back, and this Diamond business may finally be drawing to a close
Korean entertainment giant Kakao is shutting down Tapas, their North American webtoon platform, leaving creators and readers devastated and an uncertain future
Paramount has settled the lawsuits from 12 attorney generals and the WGA over its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, promising an independent editorial board for CNN and CBS News, and more.
Paulina Ganucheau and a host of artists will team up on Dynamite's We Bare Bears Christmas Special, which will mark the Cartoon Network series' first comic book.
Spider-Man: Homecoming director and Skeleton Crew co-creator Jon Watts is reportedly set to helm the first in a new Star Wars movie trilogy written by Simon Kinberg, which will purportedly feature Rey Skywalker in a minor role.
Mason Thames and Logan Kim will respectively voice Dick Grayson and Jason Todd in the animated movie, which also star Lee Pace and Steve Buscemi as the leaders of the Red Hood gang.
Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, and Salva Espin will pit X-Men: Evolution's version of the team against their '90s animated counterparts in January's one-shot X-Men '92: Incursions, set before 2015's Secret Wars.
