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Yesterday we learned that New Jersey is getting a comic-con...and so is China! ReedPOP is launching the Shanghai Comic Convention which will be held in just two months, May 16 and 17th at the Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing.

Some other people joining and moving on up of late: § Reginald Hudlin has joined the CBLDF Board of Directors. In addition to directing House...

https://twitter.com/jamieESrich/status/575823222563729408 https://twitter.com/jamieESrich/status/575747508619476992 Continuing their social media transparency on new hires, DC has hired Jamie S. Rich, former Oni editor and currently a very prolific comics writer,...

§ Hall of fame artist Bernie Wrightson has had a bunch of recent health setbacks, and now what appears to be a cancerous brain...

After 25 years working on some of the most seminal comics of the era with many of the greatest creators, Diana Schutz is...

I was tooling around on the internet the other night, and unexpectedly came across this masterpiece, a monument to the 80s culture of buddy cop TV shows that features perhaps the most perfect execution of the "buddy cops standing back to back in front of a car with their arms crossed" pose, a pose parodied as much as it is worshipped worldwide. Sometimes the arms are not crossed sometimes they are holding guns, sometimes they are standing in front of other things. But it's the "I got your back, buddy!" pose that says these partners are going to solve crimes together no matter what the dangers.

Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures. This month, nearly all of the comics with freely-orderable variants (Flash 75th anniversary) saw a drop of 3-4K. We've seen drops on these in the past months, but they were so uniform this month that I thought that maybe something else was going on. But the more I looked at it, I became convinced that it was the case the retailers as a whole just dropped their orders on these.

Jen Sorenson illustrates a troubling story from a friend that has a little bit of pay back at the end. But not nearly enough.

Another new line of digital comics? Yes. Comicker, founded by Saori Adams and Sean E. Williams (Fairest) as a plat form to serialize digital comics. Collections can be purchased at DriveThru and eventually Comixology and a subscription mobile app, developed by The Horizon Factory. Adams:

DC co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee gave a talk to comics journalists a few weeks back during the Burbank talent conference, and CBR...

So @BexTay has done some of my favorite Archaia books and now she's working with me at DC. I'm thrilled and know she's gonna...

Well the Raccoon and Starlord got their own books, so why not a tree? (And Gamora is coming, we're told.) Jeff Loveness, usually a...