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Comic book creators Jordie Bellaire and Declan Shalvey run a comic art studio in Dublin, Red Box Studios, from where they create all manner of comics -

All-Star Batman #1 is out this week. It looks like it might sell rather well. Helping it out are some retailer exclusive variants - and a signing or two

The Olympics is on. You might have noticed. Archie Comics has. This Wednesday sees the release a classic collection of Archie Comics in digital form,

The Best Practice Awards are a way for Diamond to show off and celebrate achievements by the comic book stores that they distribute comics to every week.

https://twitter.com/AfterShockComix/status/760967470740037632 Animosity #1 by Marguerite Bennett, Rafael de Latorre, Rob Schwager and Marshall Dillon, a

This year saw Bleeding Cool reporters take almost a thousand shots of cosplay at San Diego Comic-Con, more than ever before. Bleeding Cool has been a keen

It appears to be Marvel Comics' plan to make Champions #1 by Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos the best-selling comic book in October. In an interview with

By Olly MacNamee With his Titan Comics' series Man Plus: - The collection about to be collected as a trade paperback this month, and as a book we

Barnes & Noble has a bit of a Pop Culture event over the weekend. They were giving away a free preview of the upcoming Marvel series, Mosaic, the

It's the last day for retailers to order their stocks of giveaway comics for Hallowe'en from a variety of publishers. Some brand new, some reprint, some

So a film came out this week and everyone wanted to talk about it, it seemed. Or at least, read about it. Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week 1. $85,000 In

Courtesy of Hannah Means-Shannon, previous of this parish, who went to the Artist Alley Comic fest in Portland yesterday...

There is often comic book debate regarding whether Batman smiles or not. Because, basically, these days he doesn't. Or at least rarely. There's that

If you are eligible to vote, and you don't vote, you have no right to complain about who wins. The Harvey Awards voting concludes tomorrow. Voting is open

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_CZob5UUlg The word is going to be out soon, what with the four DC CW casts for Arrow, Supergirl, DC Legends Of Tomorrow

Archie Comics must do something else other than dealing with lawsuits. But it has become a speciality for the publisher it seems. It was only a couple of

Baltimore Comic-Con,held on September 2-4, 2016 at the Inner Harbor's Baltimore Convention Center, has announced its new, amended weapons policy. It used

Rick Whitelock of New Force Comics has reported to police, $85,000 worth of comic books stolen from Tampa Bay Comic Con this weekend, including  two

Sinestro has always had a certain reputation. And a certain look about him. But Ethan Van Sciver's sketchbook from 2007 may take it a little

Co-publisher of DC Comics,  Dan DiDio posted This list from The Comic Reader, June 1984, shows the top 100 comics in the same month DC announced its

That there are now Asian superhero characters in the superhero movies is certainly a thing. But it might leave something to be desired. @NerdyAsians

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

David Dissanayake was Magnetic Press's sales manager but ICV2 just reported he's moved up in the world, becoming the new sales manager at Oni Press.

By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu I love Rom, the character. I always have, from way back when I was a wide-eyed kid, reading and collecting comics and forever

As you can see, for this  memo below, the staff at The Lightbox gallery in Woking are expecting much from the new show comic book exhibition The Story Of

Mtt Osbourne writes Mount Olympus appears above New York City, Gods rain from the sky, and mankind is left under the rule of Zeus and the Greek Gods in a

In 1942, Advertising and Production Manager of Houghton Mifflin Company, Lovell Thompson, wrote about comic books in The Atlantic. And thankfully it's an

This is what happened last time. And the time before that. And then this happened. So if you do want these Michael Turner Joker variants from Aspen Press,

Jesse James Comics in Glendale, Arizona posted the slip from an online order, Nothing, like opening up the store and getting a order for 1437 Harley Quinn

A long time ago, Christopher Priest wrote a comic called The Crew. It wasn't called Black Avengers because it wasn't Black Avengers - but he noted that if