Here’s the list of what’s coming out from Archie Comics tomorrow: Afterlife With Archie #3 (Francesco Francavilla Regular Cover), $2.99 Afterlife With Archie #3 (Tim Seeley Variant Cover), $2.99 Archie #651 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99 Archie #651 (Renae De Liz Battle Of The Bands Variant Cover), $2.99 Archie Double Digest #247, $3.99 Fox #3 (Dean Haspiel Regular Cover), $2.99 Fox #3 (Mike Allred Get Freaky Variant Cover), $2.99 Kevin Keller #12 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99 Kevin Keller #12 […]

I’m calling this out not to say the publisher shouldn’t have made a mistake — with two years’ worth of daily strips, all of which had to be sourced, sometimes from multiple locations, and restored, I’m surprised there was only one glitch — but because I hope more publishers will take this approach with errors. I noted, while reading the first volume of the excellent Barnaby, that the September 30, 1943, strip had the same two first panels. After checking […]

This is old news, but I’m hoping someone who knows more about it will enlighten me. In November, Wizard World, Inc., the operator of 16 announced conventions for 2014, released financial results for third quarter 2013. Typical of such public company releases, there were many comparisons to how they did in the same quarter the year before (2012). They made almost 50% more from conventions, $4.1 million in revenue from July-September 2013 instead of $2.8 million in July-September 2012. Each […]

Back in June, Hacktivist was announced as an upcoming graphic novel from Archaia. The news came out during the summer convention season with a celebrity attached and a preview ashcan released. Alyssa Milano apparently came up with the idea or inspiration or something — the actual creative team was writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and artist Marcus To. The plot was described as a “fast-paced cyber-thriller” about two guys who found a social media company but are secretly hackers […]

Image has added new functionality to their online comic purchasing system: a one-click button to add your purchases to Dropbox, where they can be easily downloaded to whatever device or app you wish. This news is the kind of customer service that Image can provide, since they run their own online sales outlet, not dependent on another service to add desired functionality. As they say about their DRM-free offerings, They’re your comics; you own them.

The Private Eye, by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin, is a pay-what-you-want digital comic series available at PanelSyndicate.com. And it truly is “what you want to pay” — if you want to download it free, you can, but it’s quality work, deserving of your support. There are four issues out so far, telling the story of a world where, after all secrets were revealed, everyone now pretends to be someone else. We follow a private eye (called “paparazzi” in […]

As of this evening’s writing, the Fantagraphics Kickstarter to fund their spring books has three days left to go, and they’ve raised over $200,000 on an original goal of $150,000. That’s quite a success. I haven’t talked about it before because I’m of mixed minds on it. I don’t like the idea of publishers turning to crowdfunding, because in general, funding is one of the few functions comic publishers provide that makes them worth choosing instead of self-publishing. On the […]