IDW to publish Joe Frankenstein by Graham Nolan and Chuck Dixon
Joe Frankenstein, a comic book by Graham Nolan (illustrator of Rex Morgan, M.D. and his own webcomic Sunshine State) and…
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Batman #1 sold for $850,000
A near-mint first edition of a Batman comic book has sold for $850,000 in a private transaction through Heritage Auction….
News flash: Batman is gay
According to an article on pinknews.co.uk (Europe?s Largest Gay News Network), Action Comics writer Grant Morrison says the Batman character…
Chicago academic conference lines up biggest names in comics
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and the Mellon Residential Fellowship Program for Arts Practice…
NYT: Co-Archie Comic CEOs causing rift in company
The New York Times has a fascinating story about a major rift in the Archie Comics leadership over the future…
The math behind printing and distributing comic books
Mark Waid, a former Editor-In-Chief of BOOM! Studios, crunches the numbers to print and distribute your comic to comic book…
2012 Eisner Award Nominees announced
This year’s Eisner Award Nominees have been posted. They are as follows: Best Short Story “A Brief History of the…
New software to convert movies into comics
Hefei University of Technology has developed software that uses facial recognition to analyze movies to produce a comic book based…
Joe Palooka comic returns
The Joe Palooka comic strip is back, but not in newspapers. According to CBS News boxing announcer Joe Antonacci has…
Mom group demand removal of Archie Comic gay wedding issue
The conservative group One Million Moms has demanded in a letter that Toys ‘R’ Us remove all Just Married –…
Stan Goldberg to receive NCS Golden Key Award
The National Cartoonists Society will honor comic book legend Stan Goldberg with the Gold Key Award at this year’s Rueben…
Marvel wins legal battle; losing public opinion with Ghost Rider creator
Marvel won a legal battle against Gary Friedrich, who sued the comic book publisher claiming he was the creator of…
Radioactive spider-webs found in nuclear facility?
The Daily Mail reports that a strange spider-web like substance has been found on nuclear waste containers stored under water…
Joe Simon, creator of Captain America passes
Giving evidence that bad news comes in threes: Joe Simon, who co-created Captain America with Jack Kirby, has passed away…
The legendary Jerry Robinson passes at age 89 (UPDATE)
Jerry Robinson, perhaps best known for creating Batman’s famous enemy The Joker, has passed away at the age of 89….