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As promised, a new Bloom County comic strip is up—as promised, on Facebook of all places. Creator Berke Breathed announced the return during SDCC,...

After making some noises about it for a while, Tom Spurgeon has joined the crowdfunding world for his award-winning Comics Reporter site with a...

"Dogs and cats, living together!" - that's what immediately popped into my mind yesterday when I read Tony Isabella praising DC on Facebook for...

David Harper of Sktchd is at it again with the survey! This time it's comics retailers. The respondent base is only 25, so a...

A couple of years ago we were crowing with joy when Pulitzer Prize finalist cartoonist Matt Bors was hired to run Medium's comics section, The Nib, and the results were glorious, with two years of daily content that was smart funny, trenchant, moving, eye opening and everything else we love about comics. Well, as with most start-ups all good things must come to an end.

Last week's announcement of the Harvey Awards nominees was, as usual, accompanied by controversy. This time it wasn't the domination of Valiant (20 nominations) and Boom/Archaia, but rather just why certain books and people were even eligible. For starters there was the "Most Promising New Talent" category which included the following:

As revealed by Faith Erin Hicks in the above tweet, the New York Times Graphic Novel best sellers lists are teeming with female creators, especially on the paperback list where Kieron Killen and Jamie McKelvie are the only male representatives. The hardcover list has 2 1/2 female created books, and there's at least one on the manga list. I've been telling you this for FOUR YEARS.

Oh yeah, speaking of Comic-Con, there seem to have been an even greater than usual number of investigative reports on the show, what it...

The Beat is home! Charlie and Lucy are thrilled and I'm trying to reset my sleep schedule. With this year's Comic-con in the rearview...

Comics artist Alan Kupperberg passed away last night at age 62 after a battle with thymus cancer, as reported on FB by his brother,...

Variety's Statler and Waldorf, aka Peter Bart and Michael Fleming, have an inane piece up for Variety called -- r u ready? - Comic...

Offered without comment, the cast of Deadpool promoted their upcoming film and saluted the greatest sitcom of the 90s with a series of tweets. https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/618796218106388480 https://twitter.com/ginacarano/status/618797336131579905 https://twitter.com/nottjmiller/status/618809763355303937 https://twitter.com/missmorenab/status/618799109294714880 https://twitter.com/briannahilde/status/618798691936157696 https://twitter.com/edskrein/status/618799921521664000 https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/618802472119857152