2013 Archives

More Comic Stores Open Than Close In 2013
But what's the big picture? At last year's ComicsPRO retailer summit, Diamond Comic Distributors stated that comics sales in 2012 increased 16% from 2011′s figures, graphic novels increased 13%, merchandise increased 9% and total sales were up, a total increase of 14%. Oh and that comic book direct market stores increased in number by 1%, similar to[...]
Marvel Takes 2013 Comics Marketshare Prize – But Not By Much
We tried to work out the top ten comics for 2013 sold to North America through Diamond Comic Distributors… and we got it fairly close A few in the wrong order in the middle Here's the official chart below. Sales were up in 2013 on 2012, 9.04% in total, split between a rise of 10.22% in[...]
The Seventeen Best Of The Best Of The Comics For 2013 List
What happens if you take a bunch of Best Of Comics 2013 Lists from Amazon.com, Uproxx, Washington Post, Salon, Wired, AV Club, Time, Paste Magazine, CBR, Vice, io9, News OK, Digital Spy, Crave Online, Filth + Fabulations, Village Voice, Hollywood Reporter, Good Reads, Serial Optimist, Comics Alliance, What Culture, Newsarama and even Bleeding Cool? Then give[...]
Sixty-Three Cosplay Shots From New York Comic Con 2013 – Day One (UPDATE)
Courtesy of Endymion Mageto, the Senior Cosplay Correspondent for Bleeding Cool, sixty-three cosplay shots from New York Comic Con 2013 day one Do you recognise yourself? A friend? Tell us! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ [...]
The DC Comics Swapathon Of 2013
We've already heard that Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato have left Flash for Detective Comics. And John Layman and Jay Fabok have moved on to...
Gendercrunching June 2013 by Tim Hanley – Marvel, DC And The Top 300
In June 2013, DC released 70 new comic books with 607 credited creators, 535 men and 72 women Here are their stats: A loss of of 0.1% from last month overall isn't great, but on the bright side it is the least they could fall Cover artists, colorists, and editors all rose nicely, the latter two[...]
Ales Kot And Christopher Sebela Join Shadowman – Valiant Solicitations For November 2013
Just saying. Oh and yes, Unity #1. Here are Valiant's full subscriptions for November 2013. UNITY #1 Written by MATT KINDT Art & Cover by DOUG BRAITHWAITE Pullbox Exclusive Variants by BRYAN HITCH, J.G JONES, TRAVEL FOREMAN, PAOLO RIVERA and CLAYTON CRAIN 8-Bit Evolution Variant by DONOVAN SANTIAGO Valiant Signature Series Variant by BART SEARS Variant Cover by NEAL ADAMS B&W Sketch Variant by NEAL[...]
Harley Quinn #0 Launches – And Other November 2013 Solicitations From DC
(No, not THAT one!) Is it bedtime for all of Gotham City? Will the Dynamic Duo wake up in time to put out his lights? Don't miss this issue's story illustrated by 2013 Eisner Award-winner Colleen Coover! BATMAN: ARKHAM UNHINGED #20 Written by KAREN TRAVISS Art by CHRISTIAN DUCE and BENI LOBEL Cover by CHRISTOPHER MITTEN On sale NOVEMBER 13[...]
The CBLDF Liberty Annual 2013 – Help Spread The Word (Four Cover UPDATE)
But this is for a charitable cause, so can everyone do a little reTweeting, Redditing, Diggiting, Farking, Faceposting, Pinteresting, whatever you can do to help? The CBLDF Liberty Annual 2013: Tales Of Bleed And Courage, published in October by Image Comics, will raise money and awareness for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, fighting censorship and[...]
Five Image Comics Debut In October – And One Of Them Does It Five Times
As she pieces together the clues, she discovers the "future" she calls home – an alternate reality version of 2013 – shouldn't exist at all! Blast off with the new ongoing series by BRANDON MONTCLARE (Halloween Eve) and Eisner Award nominee AMY REEDER (Batwoman, Madame Xanadu). THREE #1 story KIERON GILLEN art / cover RYAN KELLY & JORDIE BELLAIRE historical consultant[...]