Comics Experience owner Brian Hibbs has done his annual service to the industry byanalyzing the yearly graphic novels sales charts as reported to Bookscan. This is information people normally pay thousands of dollars for so it is technically leaked info, but while it's there let's take advantage of it. As Hibbs points out, these numbers do not reflect comics shops, indie bookstores, book fair or libraries, to name but four huge outlets for GN sales. So they are not complete. However they are a metric , and one that's worth studying.
I believe this is the #1 feel good story of 2016 thus far.
Rob Liefeld and Robert Kirkman have been pals for a while. They're often spotted plotting together at cons. They've even collaborated on a few comics, including Infinite for Image a few years ago.
But this defines a new level of palship.: showing up on your bud's doorstep with a lifesize Deadpool statue.
By Nicholas Eskey
Welcome back fellow toy-o-philes to another weekly(ish) installment of my favorite picks for newly released or soon to be released nerdy toys....
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.
Mad Cave's second Escape From New York title, Fred Kennedy and Danilo Beyruth's one-shot Escape From the North Pole, will follow Snake Plissken on a rescue mission in the Arctic this December.
Zoe Thorogood and her husband Joe Whiteford will team up on the Image miniseries and accompanying EP Vampire on Aisle 6, which tells the story of a recently turned vampire trapped in a superstore until the Sun sets.
