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Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel is a new book by former DC publisher Paul Levitz that looks at Eisner's historical contribution to comics. And New York magazine has just excerpted the chapter...

I would take a haul photo of my CAB 2015 comics but there is not a floor space big enough at Stately Beat Manor to spread them all out. Yes I got that many comics. And yet the one I most desired to read, I paid for but forgot to pick up a copy in all the excitement. Anyway, one tradition I did NOT forget was a series of blurry phone photos of people hanging out and having a good time! ! With no further ado:

It begins! The end of year race to the best of list is underway, kicked off, as is tradition, by Publishers Weekly. Disclosure: I helped make this list. On the adult side, the selections...

As many have noted of late, e-book sales are slipping, and Publishers Weekly's Jim Milliot has a report on how slowing e-book sales hit profits of two big publishers, S&S and HarperCollins: Parent company...

The New York Times, which is the one newspaper that never ran comics strips, reverse engineers their insertion into Sunday papers as something of a novelty, instead of an elegy to the death of...

The Scarlet Witch is going All New and All Different next month with a new series written by James Robinson with art for the first issue, anyway by Vanessa Del Rey and a cover...

More Amazing books and LESS money in your pocket. MORE TO COME.   Fanfare/Ponent Mon Available via Knockabout Comics Ponent Mon has been quietly rebuilding its backlist whilst preparing new material for 2016. So at the show Kiriko...

Although DC has a pretty huge line-up of VPs and SVPs on their masthead, with VPs for Marketing & Global Franchise Management, Content Strategy, Strategy Planning and Reporting, Editorial Strategy and Administration, Sales &...

Late ship, late schmip: despite well documented problems getting their product out on time, Marvel still crushed it in October, according to sales figures just released by Diamond. Marvel opened up a commanding 22% lead in dollar share and a 26% lead in units...in fact Marvel 48% of units is the largest margin I remember seeing since I started doing these charts—and they only shipped 68 titles compared to 80 in September. And in another rare occurence, the entire top 10 periodical comics were Marvel. Ouchie. It's another kick in the grass for DC's nascent DC You line and means DKIII can't come soon enough. DC's unit share of 21.85% (down from 26% in September) and units of 22.92% (down from (26.32%) are also lows. Image was #3 with single digits once again.

It's not too soon to think about Free Comic Book Day 2016, which is just what publishers and Diamond are going. The annual comics holiday -- held the first Saturday of May -- sees...

It's a busy week for comics event in NYC, with Comic Arts Brooklyn this weekend. Here's the official list of CAB events and some other events taking place from tonight onwards: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11...

R. Sikoryak is the talented cartoonist behind a bevy of conceptual comics that use the strictures of a particular style -- say Charlie Brown and Peanuts, or Little Lulu -- to retell classics of...