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Man of faith dons Man of Tomorrow for children’s Mass

Father Humberto Alvarez isn’t a typical Catholic priest. Every Sunday, the 40-year-old dons a tunic emblazoned with images of Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, and, armed with a Super Soaker loaded with holy water, delivers a special Mass to the children of Saltillo, Mexico. It’s an unconventional approach, but one that appears to work, drawing parishioners [...]

Number-crunching comics sales: units are the thing, not dollars

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  • Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 at 3:00 PM EST

Activate cartwheels. The North American comics industry has crawled out of the hole it’s been in to raise estimated profits of $715 million, the best it’s been since 1993 or 1994, according to cautiously optimistic numbers analyst John Jackson Miller. But hold on. We haven’t quite recovered from the mid-’90s crash quite yet. While a [...]

Comics A.M. | How stable are sales of DC’s New 52 titles?

Publishing | Todd Allen analyzes the sales of DC Comics’ New 52 titles from their September 2011 launch to the past month. Sales of any series tend to drop off from one issue to the next — Allen compares it to radioactive decay — and when the numbers drop below 18,000 for a couple of [...]

Disney’s not-so-secret shame

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  • Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 at 3:00 PM EST

“[T]hey broke my spirit,” Don Rosa wrote in an epilogue to his autobiography in comics, explaining why he retired from the job he so dearly loved. The whole tale is heart-breaking but also beautiful in the cartoonist’s abundant gratitude and humility. “They” of course are Disney and its publishing licensees who don’t pay their comics [...]

Food or Comics? | Unsweetened chocolate or Uncanny X-Men

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  • Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 at 11:00 AM EST

Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we’d buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we’d get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item. Check out Diamond’s release list or ComicList, [...]

SLG seeks former creators for fundraiser anthology

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  • Monday, February 11th, 2013 at 1:00 PM EST

Last fall, SLG Publishing announced it was being forced to relocate its office space and Art Boutiki gallery, with Publisher Dan Vado mentioning there likely would be some fundraising efforts to help pay for the move. We now have some details of at least part of those plans. John Backderf (My Friend Dahmer) recently posted some art [...]

What Are You Reading? with Tim Lattie

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  • Sunday, February 10th, 2013 at 3:32 PM EST

Welcome to What Are You Reading?, where the Robot 6 crew shares their picks for who we think should play a young Han Solo. Of course, we unanimously chose Nathan Fillion, so instead we’ll talk about what comics we’ve been reading. Joining us today is special guest Tim Lattie, the creator of Night Stars. Tim [...]

Grumpy Old Fan | DC asks ‘WTF?’ for the wrong reasons

When I talked about DC Comics’ April solicitations a few weeks back they hadn’t yet been “WTF-Certified.” (Caleb has an excellent roundup of the WTF specifics, and I am unlikely to improve on his observations.)  That phrase suggests strongly either that DC is no longer interested in anyone young enough to use “Why The Face” [...]

Balloonless | Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour

It’s really a shame that Golden Age artist Matt Baker was so relatively mysterious among his peers, as the historical importance of his influential work and his being one of the first and few black men working in comics at the time make him a figure a lot of people should want to know more [...]

Impress Chris Claremont with your X-Men T-shirt design, win a trip to San Diego

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  • Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 at 1:00 PM EST

Although tickets for this year’s Comic-Con International don’t go on sale until Feb. 16, it’s likely they’ll go fast, and many fans who want to attend will have to look for other ways to get a badge. Here’s one of those alternative opportunities: WeLoveFine is holding an X-Men & Wolverine Design Contest, with the grand [...]

The Fifth Color | The Super Bowl and ‘fake geeks’

I don’t know much about sports. I’d like to think I’m slightly above a novice; I played sports very poorly in my younger years. As a former cheerperson for my local high school, I could tell you when players were on offense or defense. There are plenty of male sports fans in my life that [...]

Tyler Kirkham takes The Family Troll to Kickstarter

Artist Tyler Kirkham, known for his work on such titles Green Lantern: New Guardians and Ultimate Fantastic Four, is stepping outside of the superhero arena with The Family Troll, a graphic novel written by his wife Jill Kirkham, and he’s turning to Kickstarter for help. Loosely based on Tyler and Jill’s own struggles to have [...]

Comics A.M. | Warner Bros. Entertainment names new CEO

Business | In a surprise announcement, Kevin Tsujihara was announced Monday to succeed Barry Meyer as CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment, the parent company of DC Entertainment. The 48-year-old Tsujihara, who has been with Warner Bros. since 1994, was named in 2005 as president of the Home Entertainment Group, overseeing the company’s home video, digital [...]

Barnes & Noble to close one-third of retail stores over next decade

Once criticized for its role in the decline of local booksellers, retail giant Barnes & Noble is struggling in a shrinking print market that claimed longtime rival Borders less than two years ago. The chain, which boasts 689 retail stores (along with 674 college stores), plans to cut that number by one-third over the next [...]

Comics A.M. | Gene Luen Yang announces two-volume graphic novel

Creators | Gene Luen Yang, creator of American Born Chinese, has revealed his latest project Boxers and Saints, a set of two graphic novels about the Boxer Rebellion in China; one story is about a peasant who joins the Boxers, while the other is about a woman who converts to Catholicism. First Second will publish [...]


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