Posts Tagged ‘comics’

On December 30, 2009, due to the holiday shipping schedule, Diamond will be unable to deliver retailers their weekly shipments of new comics. There are, however, benefits to this besides giving retailers some holiday recovery time and a billing break. While not having the normal amount of new books to stock on shelves may seem off-putting ... Full story

Wednesday, December 30th, will be New Comic Book skip week.  Due to the holidays, new comics will not be shipping except for a few titles. DC Comics Blackest Night #6 will be the sole DC Comic Book released that week along with all its variant covers. Full story

Saturday, October 10th through Sunday October 11th, noon to noon.  24 HOUR COMIC DAY!  Okay, so we're a week later than the rest of the world, but that just gives you a week longer to rest up for one of our most exciting (and exhausting!) events of the year!  24 Hour Comic Day!  The challenge?  Create ... Full story

Join The Comic Bug as we celebrate 70 marvelous years of Marvel Comics!  This will be an early release party with availability of The Marvels Project #1 and special variants.  The party will start at 8pm and there will be FREE pizza, drinks and Marvelous cake!  And to top it off, 50% OFF all Marvel merchandise!  ... Full story

The biggest comic book convention in the country will be in San Diego from July 25th to 29th. If you are looking for it, it will be there. Comic books, toys, video games, wrestling, anime, games, clothing and so much more. Also there are always highly sought after convention exclusives you can wait ... Full story

Meet with your local artists to network and learn about the comic book industry. CAG meets every 3rd Sunday from 4 to 6pm. If you want to break into the industry then come on by! Full story

APE, which stands for Alternative Press Expo, is the fun comic convention where you can meet the independent publishers who are doing what they love, create and distribute their own comic books. You can get up close and personal with your favorite small press artists and help support them in their endeavors. Perhaps you may even see someone you recognize! Maybe even Atomic ... Full story

Northern California's big comic book convention in San Francisco will be at the Moscone Center from March 2-4th. Take a drive for this first of the big conventions on the west coast and you may even see Mike Wellman of Atomic Basement Comics pimpin' his wares! Full story

Nic Cage is The Ghost Rider in the start of this year's comic book related movies! Be sure to pick up the current Ghost Rider series written by Daniel Way and there will be a Ghost Rider mini-series that is a prelude to the movie which will be written by the great Garth Ennis! Full story

WE DID IT!!! 24 hours straight of creating comics! Roughly 35 creators accepted the challenge and we have 18 completed 24 page comics. Some came for fun to hang out with creators and try to draw a comic book and some serious creators hunkered down and used all 24 hours to sleeplessly create their ... Full story