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This is the golden era of indie comic, artistically and even financially, at least in term of the number of publishers, CAFs and cartoonists who wake up every day excited to be cartooning. It's a movement that is aesthetically and formally as exciting as anything else going on out there. All of which makes the Jason Karns Kerfuffle all the more unusual.

Well, speaking of wandering around the comics landscape, if there's one tour guide who seems to know what he's talking about, Paul Gravett is...

I don't know why this news hasn't been picked up at every entertainment blog everywhere. A comic book has been optioned for a live...

First Second released some news about their Winter 2013-14 titles, including paperback editions for Sailor Twain and Baby's in Black, and some new books...

A triumphant return for Fathom, albeit one backed by a price-promotion, and a full price relaunch for Red Sonja join Matt Fraction’s Satellite Sam as the big debuts this month, and East of West and Lazarus cement their places in the upper part of the chart. Elsewhere are a clutch of strong mid-level launches, and a slightly worrying series of drops for Valiant.

Oh yeah, speaking of Amazon, we're been awfully inconsistent about posting the weekly Amazon sales rankings compiled by Dave Carter, but here's last Friday's...

This news has been around for a while, but it never got it's own item, so here it is: Hyperbole and a Half, Allie...

Over the holiday, Mark Waid announced that he is crossing the last frontier of comics prodom by becoming a partner in his local comics...

The complete RASL by Jeff Smith is out this week, and he'll be touring all over the place—from SPC to CAB—throughout the fall. Here's...

In an era when more and more collection of personal comics papers are being given to scholarly institutions (Columbia's Karen Green and OSU's Jenny Robb being among the leaders of this particular movement) it came as a bit of a surprise to be reminded where Stan Lee's papers are housed: Laramie, WY. Sequential Tart's Katie Frank made the arduous journey to the archive at the University of Wyoming, braving raging rivers, scaling giant redwoods and sustained on morning dew from maple leaves, but she made it.

About 10 years ago, when I ran a tiny item on a proposed Spider-Man musical with music by U2 on the old Comicon-com site,...

As you probably heard over the holiday, iFanboy is packing in its "day to day" operations, which seemed like a euphemistic way of saying...