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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes uses Charles Burns’ Black Hole as a...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WlGUvg4vBU Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which opens today, tells of how the enhanced apes, led by Caesar, strive with humans for supremacy...

Report: Digital comics sales at $90 million in 2013

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Milton Griepp has run his annual analysis of digital comics sales and the numbers are up again. He reports that digital was at...

Archie rebrands Superhero line as Dark Circle

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Oh man, it's getting dark and edgy at Archie Comics! They've been planning a reboot of their superhero line for a while, with SVP and respected mystery novelist Alex Segura helping out with the editorial side, and now it's getting a new name: Formerly known as Red Circle, the reboot will now be known as Dark Circle -- maybe giving it a bit of a horror edge and playing off the massive success of Afterlife with Archie, the zombies in Riverdale epic.

SDCC 2014: ALL the Thursday Programming

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From Betty White to Scott McCloud. I counted 216 programs here. And they've expanded to the Marriott and....the Horton Grand Theater. Make sure to grab a toasted cheese sandwich while you're there. Most of the big movie announcements are still on ice, but some amazing comics folks, including McCloud, Gene Luen Yang, Eleanor Davis, a spotlight on Bill Finger and MORE MORE MORE. Can you feel the feels?

Media Royalties: Not so fast, Alan Brennert

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On Tuesday we posted writer Alan Brennert's pique over not getting equity participation for the character Barbara Kent Gordon, who will appear as Jim...

Nice art: Becky Cloonan’s Monster variant cover for Batman

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Just to prove that the Bat office is going WILD with art, Becky Cloonan posted her Monster variant cover for Batman for October, which...

What house style? New team on Batgirl: Stewart, Fletcher, Tarr and Bellaire

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Since The New 52 set records three years ago, the DCU has adhered to a rather rigid house style, one primarily based on 90s...

Gilbert Hernandez and Marguerite Sauvage are drawing Wonder Woman

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Sensation Comics, you may recall, is the digital-first Wonder Woman series that will feature diverse folk doing diverse stories about everyone's favorite star-spangled Amazon. Digital comics will be collected into print issues every few months. So dropped into this rather barebones exclusive story about issue #3 is the stunning news that Gilbert Hernandez will be drawing a Wonder Woman story! And Sean E. Williams and fashion-y illustrator Marguerite Sauvage will be doing another!

Webcomic alert: Trigger Warning: Breakfast by Anonymous

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Has it really been stressed enough how great the comics that The Nib, edited by Matt Bors and Eleri Mai Harris, is publishing are? Here's a new one called Trigger Warning: Breakfast and i have towarn you it is not a pleasant read, but it is powerful. The author is anonymous. For reasons you will understand when you read it.

Nice Art: Jeff Smith covers Rocket Raccoon for SDCC Marvel exclusive

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I've wondered in the past if Rocket Raccoon would get overexposed before Guardians of the Galaxy comes out. Well as long as that exposure is swell variant covers by Jeff Smith, I have no worries about that.

Number crunching shows female con attendees growing at rate of 62% at NYCC

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Using numbers from this (itself very interesting) ReedPOP media kit, Janelle Asselin ran numbers on New York Comic-Con demographics, with an eye to growth...

Bernie Wrightson is in hospital but doing well

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He was just at HeroesCon, running around, smiling and putting this amazing work (done with Scott Hampton) in the auction (I know it doesn't...

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