In this week’s Publisher’s Weekly Comics Week, I took a look at what the library market for graphic novels looks like. One of the things I found is that if you want to estimate the number of graphic novels in the library system, multiplying the number of libraries carrying a title by 3 is going [...]

I’m of two minds with the much celebrated Wednesday Comics.  The actual comics, I like quite a bit.  The el cheapo newsprint it was printed on, I dislike so much, I’m having second thoughts about picking up the… series?  (It isn’t really a book, per se.)
I walked into my local comics [...]

A friend of mine recently commented that DC and Marvel didn’t have booths at the Wizard World Philadelphia show and that neither company was listed as an exhibitor at Wizard World Chicago, either.  Well, today (7/7/09), I took a look at Wizard’s site.
Oh.
My.
God.
It used to be that Wizard would list [...]

It seems my look at Marvel’s latest audit figures and how they apply to the nearly year-old argument of whether three issues of one Spider-Man title compare to three Spider-Man titles has been a bit… politicized… on the message boards.  Circulation numbers are being used as part of an argument about [...]

We finally have answers to the Spider-Man subscriptions question. On August 12, 2008, in a CBR interview Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort said “Everyone is saying the book will be cancelled any day now. I could float the book on my subscribers alone at this point.”
The question of whether [...]

If you heard there was a comic book called “Barack the Barbarian,” odds are you thought it was going to be a cheap money grab, juxtaposing Barack Obama with the Conan the Barbarian comics he’s said to collect. Turns out you’d be wrong. Barack the Barbarian, subtitled “Quest for the Treasure of Stimuli!” [...]

Looking at comments online, there seem to be two distinct camps for Captain America #600’s Monday release: places where practically no one batted an eyelash on Monday and places where it was a hot ticket.  This isn’t too surprising since while there was some publicity, it was spotty and much [...]

Is Gareb Shamus stealing a page from Danny Ocean?
The Beat noted an interesting quote about a survey being conducted at The Big Apple Con: “If Big Apple Con added a casino, would you stay and gamble?”
Want to know the secret behind that question?  Open source intelligence reveals all.
You may recall [...]

As you may or may not know, Marvel Comics told retailers that the 600th issue of Captain America would be available for sale today, a Monday (Wednesday being the day new comics normally go on sale), because there was going to be a biiiiiiig announcement.  They thought there was going to be similar coverage to [...]

After falling to the Celtics, there’s been plenty of idle chatter about whether Chicago Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro should be fired.  And it’s all silly chatter from ignorant corners.  (Really, have you listened to some of these talk radio hosts?  Have they ever watched a basketball game in their life?)
Could [...]