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Talking Comics with Tim: Jim Ottaviani
An interview with Jim Ottaviani is long overdue, on multiple levels. Ottaviani is a storyteller that has been impressing peers and entertaining/informing readers since 1997. I should have interviewed...
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Comics A.M. | Archie addresses gays in military; NYT explains Crisis
Publishing | We noted in late April that Archie Comics appeared to be embracing cultural and political commentary with its upcoming Kevin Keller miniseries, which features Riverdale’s first openly gay...
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Comics A.M. | Janelle Asselin exits DC; Del Rey’s Betsy Mitchell retires
Publishing | DC Comics associate editor Janelle Asselin has left the company, reportedly for a job with Disney. She clarifies on Twitter that, contrary to a report, she wasn’t escorted from the...
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Comics A.M. | Jerry Robinson Detective Comics #67 cover up for sale
Art | Jerry Robinson’s cover artwork from Detective Comics #67 is expected to bring in more than $300,000 when it goes up for auction Nov. 15. “Robinson penciled and inked this cover and the detail of...
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Comics A.M. | ComiXology top iPad app for past six Wednesdays
Digital | Comics by ComiXology has topped Apple’s charts as the top-grossing iPad application for the last six Wednesdays. ComiXology cited the launch of DC’s New 52 initiative, as well as many other...
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What Are You Reading? with Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows
Season’s Greetings and welcome to another edition of What Are You Reading?, our weekly look at what we’ve been reading lately. Today our special guests are Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows, editors...
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Looking Forward, Looking Back | Creators weigh in on 2012 and 2013 (Part 1)
It’s become an annual tradition here during our birthday bash: No matter how much stuff we line up, people we interview, etc., there are still tons of folks we like to hear from and include in our...
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Comics A.M. | Pair of ‘Peanuts’ Sunday strips sells for $78,200
Auctions | The original art for two Peanuts Sunday comics, one of them autographed by Charles Schulz, sold for a combined price of $78,200 at auction on June 6. [artdaily.org] Creators | Zander Cannon...
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Reviews |‘Failure,’‘Primates,’ Shakespeare’s ‘Star Wars’& more
Failure (Alternative Comics): Faithful readers of ROBOT 6 may recall the name of cartoonist Karl Stevens from a fall 2012 story about his Boston Phoenix strip Failure being canceled after an...
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Comics A.M. | Retailers high on Image, ‘Saga’& creator-owned
Retailing | Publishers Weekly’s annual comics retailer survey yields some interesting commentary, although the sample size is small (just 10 stores): Sales are up, retailers are optimistic, and Saga...
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Comics A.M. | Digital comics sales nearly tripled last year
Publishing | Sales of comics, graphic novels and digital comics totaled $750 million in 2012, making that year the best of the millennium so far for the comics business, according to the retail news...
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‘Feynman’ creators reunite for Stephen Hawking biography
Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick, creators of the bestselling Feynman, have reteamed for a graphic novel biography of renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, to be published in 2016 by First...
View ArticleComics A.M. | Attorney takes a close look at Artists Alley
An intellectual property attorney strolls through the artists alley of a convention, and discovers "70-80% of the vendors and artists were selling infringing intellectual property."
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