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Wow. When I started fretting about my computer repairs yesterday, Tom Spurgeon offered to suggest that people donate some money to help out, and I...

Hey there, I'll try to keep a running tab on what's been announced but follow the twitter feed for an abridged version. Notes supplied...

It's a brand new year, and everyone is looking back on all the great comics that came out and all the great things coming...

Mike Dawson of Troop 142 fame—whose new GN this year, Angie Bongiolatti (Secret Acres) should be much talked about— has a daughter and now...

This marks the fourth year we’ve run the Comics Industry Person of the Year Poll, and the results were very straightforward, as you’ll see. The guidelines for voting are as follows: "This can be the most important person, someone who had the biggest impact, an innovator, someone who set the pace, or had a banner year creatively.” The winner’s impact this year was bittersweet, but still something to celebrate.

When prize winning editorial cartoonist Matt Bors got a paying job at Medium, an internet start up funded by Twitter's Ev Williams, the whole world of comics celebrated. But now he's launching actual comics content every day of the year for The Nib, Medium's comics hub, which Bors edits. And it's AWESOME. A great line-up of cutting edge, diverse voices—just like comics can be.

We all knew that the Star Wars comics franchise would go to Marvel eventually, but no one seems enthused about the idea. Maybe that's...

Okay this wraps up our annual tradition of surveying all levels of the comics industry for their thoughts on the state of the union....

§ January 6th is the Christian feast known as Epiphany, also the 12th Day of Christmas, so the holidays are over AND you get to wish people a great Epiphany. It never gets old. Above painting by Abraham Bloemaert.

Here's part four or our annual comics status report, with contributions from publishers, cartoonist, writers and execs. As usual, lots of news tidbits and previews in the upcoming projects here, Previous parts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Be back here tomorrow for the big wind-up!

Yep it's more picks and prognostications, with a few tasty previews thrown in. Ted McKeever, cartoonist 2014 Projects: THE SUPERANNUATED MAN  A new Golden Age...

Marvel and Dark Horse just sent out statements confirming what many had long expected: that Disney would move the Star Wars comics license to...