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Are you among the four or five people who haven't done a Kickstarter yet but are just thinking about it?

There's a big survey of retailers about current comics sales trends, ably put together by Shannon O'Leary up at Publishers Weekly today, called Despite...

There was much rejoicing last week when it was announced 80s cartoon mainstay Jem and The Holograms is coming back as a live-action movie, with the production crowd sourced in some cases. . The movie will be directed by Jon Chu who previously made both Step Up and GI Joe Retaliation, which is the perfect resume for a movie about a female rock band that has adventures.

So this is why God gave us the internet: Todd Spence created these True Detective homages in the form of Hardy Boys detective novel covers. More in the link.

§ Hasn't Little Nemo been in the public domain for a while? It's surprising that everyone is doing Little Nemo tributes now, including IDW and Locust Moon comics. Zainab Akhtar previews the Dream Another Dream, the Locust Moon offering and the page above by Jeremy Bastien is but one of several gobsmacking pages already seen. YOW.

http://www.cbsnews.com/common/video/cbsnews_player.swf Even in a world where major media coverage of comics personnel is a daily habit, this profile of The New Yorker's cartoon process by...