Tag: News
Autoptic and the costs of comic cons and CAFs
Autoptic is new indie arts festival with a comics component (or a CAF, as I like to call them, or comic art festival) that was held last weekend in Minneapolis. (It has a groovy...
Nearly 50% of the comic book market consists of variant covers
Although this is the best time in recent comics history for sales and quality, the current sales success doesn't come without an asterisk: the huge number of variants that almost every publisher is pumping...
Congratulations to Leela Corman and Tom Hart
I am certain that all of the world of comics will join me in congratulating Tom Hart and Leela Corman on the birth of their daughter Molly Rose Corman-Hart on August 18th.
In addition...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 8/13/2013: Congrats Paul and Susi!
§ First off a big congrats to the Beat's Marvel Sales Chart champ Paul O'Brien as he and wife Susi welcomed little Andrew into the world last week. Word is that the new issue is already racing up the charts.
Retailer Brian Hibbs quits ComicPRO, but it wasn’t over DC Villains allocation
In a comment on his post regarding DC's allocation of their Villains month promotion, veteran retailer Brian Hibbs mentioned that he had quit the retailer organization, ComicsPRO.
I’ve, uh, decided to stop my membership...
Podcast Alert: Word Balloon surpasses 4 million downloads
The Word Balloon podcast is one of the most important thing to happen to comics in the last eight years. It was announced on that John Siuntres' comic book podcast "Word Balloon" podcast has hit...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 8/12/13: Wizard World Chicago wrap-up
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§ Wizard World Chicago Comic-Con was held this weekend, and Sean Kleefeld went and kind of sums up the improving-from-a-comics-standpoint view of the show we've been hearing:
I'll be honest that I haven't been...
Comics sales up in five week July; DC rebounds
Comics sales were up in double digits in nearly every comparison in July, according to figures just released by Diamond. July was a five-week month so the totals are naturally bigger; however, sales were...
The Cover for Wimpy Kid #8: Hard Luck has been revealed
They are the rites of fall: kids buy new pencil cases, Jet Coach Rex Ryan says something stupid, turkeys look back on their life and sigh....and a new Wimpy Kid book by Jeff Kinney...
Convention mistakenly advertises X-men Creators reunion, apologizes
The other day I received an email from comics historian and artist Jim Amash on behalf of inker Terry Austin to alert people that a mailer sent out by retailer Joseph Koch wasn't all...
Must read: India’s Leaping Windows—an emerging comics market’s first comics cafe
I often run links about India's comics market while still wondering just how emerging it is, but Ryan Holmberg's great profile of
Leaping Windows Comics Cafe outside Mumbai explains a lot about both...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 8/6/2013: Add color to your world
§ Slate has a cartoon-character color wheel which is enlightening. Please hit the link for the whole thing.
§ This much travelled link interviews Boudewjin Pelt, a Dutch programmer who invented two plugins that...
