Tag: News

Diamond has released their preliminary top 10 and comparative charts for January, and it was another good month for Marvel and comics overall. Although periodical sales were down a bit from last month, GNs were up quite a bit — perhaps oddly given the Christmas sales season. Both periodical and graphic novels were up in strong doubles digits from January 2012, however, showing that the comic book recovery is well under way, no matter what you thing of creative shuffles.

DC announced a few more cancellations and creator switches yesterday.  That's not unusual in the days leading up to releasing the next batch of solicitations.  A six-title cancellation is a little larger than we're...

I'm glad the holidays are over and everyone is off their ass making back to making some comic books.  Something's in the water or there just are some great project with a lot of heart and soul.  We have some bright new faces, an industry favorite and a successful project manager looking for repeated success.

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As a hushed world waited with bated breath, the waiting is over: Pantone has announced their Color of the Year. And it's Emerald, aka Pantone 17-5641 TCX. Reviewers hailed the move, saying ""Lively. Radiant. Lush… A color of elegance and beauty that enhances our sense of well-being, balance and harmony."

Good news from Peter David, the popular writer who had a stroke while vacationing at Disneyland. Because of the incredibly unfortunate timing (not that there is ever a good time to have a stroke) he has been rehabbing in a Florida treatment center, far from his New York home. Wife Kathleen has been updating everyone on his progress and David has been using Dragon Dictation to post to his blog and keep up with work. He's been making good progress, and now some very good news.:

The only cons I like better then ones that I can ride my bicycle to are cons that only take an hour and a half  drive.  Sometimes the commute is intimidating and it's much easier to just stay home.  Amazing Arizona Comic Con gave me too many reasons to not miss this event.

News has been piling up like cordwood...this is where we stack it up in the woodshed.

§ The 25 Comic Books You Need To Read Before You Die -- this piece should be called "The 25 Vertigo Comics you Need to Read Before Your Library Card Expires" but not a terrible list for what it is.

That goes without saying but two recent examples of how the internet news site echo chamber has little to do with facts sometimes.

§ Must Read: Tom Spurgeon catches up with First Second editor Calista Brill, whose essay on giving up on a comics career turned into a 10-alarm internet fire last week. Verbalizing these painful issues of a career in comics was something of a shock for many:

Lots of stuff so let's get to it! § Sometime Beat contributor Laura Sneddon looks at 2013 in Comics and even though this list is mostly front of the Diamond catalog, there's a lot to be excited about.