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And speaking of the indie world of publishers below the Top Seven, Amigo Comics is a periodical publisher that launched last year with...

While PictureBox was the first big casualty of the potential Great ShakeOut of '13-14, it seems that Ape Entertainment may have actually preceded it to the big hiatus box in the sky by just stopping without much notice or mention. It was Detective Carlson who first noticed it was missing from recent activity line-ups with all orders for comics cancelled.

It all started when someone wrote to The Black Mountain News of North Carolina to point out a shocking misstatement in a recent Mark...

Fantagraphics has posted an except from Jaime Hernandez's The Love Bunglers, coming in April. This reprints the story from Love and Rockets #3-4 which...

Over at his blog, Derf Backderf, author of My Friend Dahmer, has announced his next book: a 288-page GN based on his Trashed webcomic....

It's a holiday for many of us, and what better way to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luthor King than to suggest that if...

Via Sean Howe http://youtu.be/_03ocYcRmCc § Neal Adams was interviewed at Flying Colors in Concord, Ca, and if yuo've ever seen Neal Adams talk you know it's...

Just to give you something nice to get into the weekend with, here's the cover for the second printing of issue #3 of the...

This week on More To Come, the weekly podcast of Publishers Weekly Comics World, I talk to Bob Fingerman about the return of Minimum...

Heavy Metal Magazine has been sold for several million dollars to music industry vet David Boxembaum and producer Jeff Krelitz, Variety reports. The duo...

Event season rolled on in November, as INFINITY reached its climax, while the Ultimate imprint's CATACLYSM got under way. Meanwhile, ASTONISHING X-MEN was relaunched as AMAZING X-MEN, and the MARVEL KNIGHTS X-MEN and LONGSHOT SAVES THE MARVEL UNIVERSE minis kick off. Though DC had four books in the top five - BATMAN, HARLEY QUINN, SUPERMAN UNCHAINED and FOREVER EVIL - Marvel still edged them in their share of the North American direct market, leading by 34% to 32% in unit terms, and 30% to 29% in dollars. As has already been pointed out on The Beat, this means Marvel and DC's combined dollar share dips below 60% - something that hasn't happened in a decade.

Wrestling Hall of Famer Mae Young died earlier this week, at age 90. She wrestled in 7 decades, as recently as 2010, a...