Tag: News

§ The National Book Festival was this weekend, with several comics guests, some sponsored by SPX. YOu can probalby find out everything you want from mining the Twitter hashtag. But the Washington Post had...

No one is quite sure how the Miami Book Fair International—held in a city known for its wild and crazy lifestyle—got to be the biggest book festival in the US, but...it's true and probably...

New York Comic Con has just released its panels and screenings schedule. But as in past year's, it is presented in a database format that is...not easy to navigate. Once again, thanks to...

§ SPX is coming and cartoonist Sara McH. offers sensible advice for exhibiting, like how to tally your sales, keeping dinner groups manageable, and leaving the crappy stuff people gave you behind in the...

As the mainstream media continued to make hay over Batwoman's banned wedding, DC's co publisher Dan DiDio took to twitter last night to give his side of things. If you've ever been to a...

Marvel was the winner again in August according to today's just released figures from Diamond. Infinity #1 was the top comics and Marvel meat DC in both units and dollars. Comparative figures were WAY...

This is the golden era of indie comic, artistically and even financially, at least in term of the number of publishers, CAFs and cartoonists who wake up every day excited to be cartooning. It's a movement that is aesthetically and formally as exciting as anything else going on out there. All of which makes the Jason Karns Kerfuffle all the more unusual.

I don't know why this news hasn't been picked up at every entertainment blog everywhere. A comic book has been optioned for a live action "tv" show. Actually not just optioned: THE SHOW IS...

First Second released some news about their Winter 2013-14 titles, including paperback editions for Sailor Twain and Baby's in Black, and some new books as well, including a new book by the very Talented...

As you probably heard over the holiday, iFanboy is packing in its "day to day" operations, which seemed like a euphemistic way of saying they won't be running a costly and unprofitable daily website...

Now that the outrage-o-tron has moved from torture to movie casting, here is a round-up of reactions to the "Torture Cover" post the other day. Actually I don't even need to write anything, as the Outhouse already summed it up with CROSSED TORTURE VARIANT CONTROVERSY SPARKS SURPRISINGLY CIVIL DEBATE ON INTERNET. It's true. No one was blackballed, castigated or petitioned. The effects and provenance of disturbing material were widely debated, but it was generally decided by everyone involved that those who like it can like it, those who want to throw up can move right over to the toilet.

When did this Ben Affleck Batman tragedy begin? Alex Zalben has a pretty good timeline of Affleck's interaction with superhero roles here but it leaves out a few things, such as Affleck's breakout role as "Holden" the aspiring comics artist in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy.