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Heavy Metal Magazine has been sold for several million dollars to music industry vet David Boxembaum and producer Jeff Krelitz, Variety reports. The duo...

This weekend: the Black Comic Book Festival at the Schomberg Centerhttp://ift.tt/Lfc90N Tweet Yes it’s another NYC event, but this two day festival of comics sounds...

One of the worlds biggest franchises is getting its own comics series, as IDW has announced it will publish Angry Birds comics starting in June. Jeff Parker and Paul Tobin are among those crafting the tales of Red, Chuck, Bomb, Stella, Matilda, King Pig and so on. The deal is being run on Rovio's end by Jukka Heiskanen, Rovio’s Editor-In-Chief of Comics.

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/17/14: People said thingshttp://ift.tt/1dBffqv Tweet § This appreciation of Cliff Sterrett’s great Polly and Her Pals says many of the right things: More...

Event season rolled on in November, as INFINITY reached its climax, while the Ultimate imprint's CATACLYSM got under way. Meanwhile, ASTONISHING X-MEN was relaunched as AMAZING X-MEN, and the MARVEL KNIGHTS X-MEN and LONGSHOT SAVES THE MARVEL UNIVERSE minis kick off. Though DC had four books in the top five - BATMAN, HARLEY QUINN, SUPERMAN UNCHAINED and FOREVER EVIL - Marvel still edged them in their share of the North American direct market, leading by 34% to 32% in unit terms, and 30% to 29% in dollars. As has already been pointed out on The Beat, this means Marvel and DC's combined dollar share dips below 60% - something that hasn't happened in a decade.

Wrestling Hall of Famer Mae Young died earlier this week, at age 90. She wrestled in 7 decades, as recently as 2010, a...