Tag: News

I'm a firm believer that we shouldn't celebrate black history or women's history only one month a year, but 365 days (or even 366 days) a year. However Black History Month has given rise...

A Daily News writer was privy to the most recent Marvel retreat where the events of Civil War 2 were hashed out, and while a Iron Man Captain Marvel conflict was revealed, the sausage...

And here's the final part of our annual creator survey. It seems people are really looking forward to Rom if you read all of these. Also, thanks to such a wide ranging  cross section...

Here's the third part of our annual creator survey with a varied look from people in all aspects of the business from creators to publishers to journalists. As always, buried among the answers you will find a bunch of news items for the sharp eyed and also some preview art. In case you haven't noticed, our panel certainly did: 2015 was the year diversity broke around the comics industry, although much, much, much more needs to be done. Read on to see what our our respondents thought about the year past and what they have coming for 2016.

Here's the second part of our annual creator survey, and this time out we have some exclusive peeks at some new projects for 2016, as well as what might be hit of something cool to happen...but you'll have to read everything figure out what that is. Thanks to all for taking the time to participate in this survey especially during the busy holiday time. You can find Part 1 here.

It's time for our annual look at what's happening in comics and where creators see things going and what impacted them in the past year. This time as always we have a wide range...

A few of preemptive notes about starting some education classes in 2016, since many of you will be beginning a new course. § Frank Santoro's online comics making course is starting up again in...

Things are slowing down for the holidays. Even at Stately Beat Manor. Those presents won't buy themselves. But news of a new comics company and many best of lists are here for you to peruse in your spare time.

New comics! SF madness from Zack Soto, boxing fantasy from Neil Kleid, Jake Allen and Frank Reynoso; NYC history from Julia Wertz; a collection from Andrea Tsurumi; an intense Italian micropress; and a controversial kickstarter is finally coming to print.

§ Dave Itzkoff elides the Dark Knight III experience for the NY Times. It was pointed out a few times that this piece only interviews men and while I'm fully aware that many woman...

AfterShock Comics, the line of periodical comics that launches next month, has made a couple of new hires. Stephan Nilson has been hired as Publishing Operations Manager, and Lisa Y. Wu has...

Will any geeks news sites be left standing as 2015 draws to a close? I would have thought io9, the nerd part of the Gawker media empire, would have been the safest, but I...