Comic Book Daily's Pete DeCourcy takes a look at DC'S Solicits and judges them. Because he is a sad man who derives pleasure from pointing out foibles.

So, it looks like the DC U as we know it has a brand new ‘Trinity’ as of this morning. Dan DiDio and Jim Lee will be Co-Publishers of DC Comics. Geoff Johns will be Chief Creative Officer. (And  John Rood, and Patrick Caldon will be Executive Partners, but seeing as that would...

From the press release on the DC Blog: Jim Lee and Dan DiDio Named Co-Publishers DC Comics Geoff Johns to Serve as Chief Creative Officer John Rood Named EVP, Sales, Marketing and Business Development Patrick Caldon Named EVP, Finance and Administration (February 18, 2010 – New York, NY and...

There is a type of magic that comes with a writer and artist that click. While there is something to be said about writers who can also draw like Mike Mignola or Frank Miller, there’s something special about comic book writers who work well with a particular artist. And there are a lot...

Convention Tip #3. Haggling is not for the squeamish. It takes a certain type to do it well but in reality anyone can be a good haggler if a few simple rules are followed

Comic Book Daily presents the latest Comic Culture podcast featuring Walter Durajlija and his special guest Vince Marchesano. Vince is a vertan comic book artist who has work with guys like Rich Buckler, Neal Adams and Jim Steranko

2009 Eisner award winning artist makes rare Toronto appearance artoriginals presents master of the macabre and B.P.R.D. artist Guy Davis, who will be making a special Toronto appearance at the Gladstone Hotel on Saturday, February 27 for an interactive workshop and exhibition followed by...

As I was scouring Twitter, I heard a lot about the Chris Handley case. Handley, a 40-year-old US manga collector, was sentenced to six months in prison for importing and possessing manga that was classified by the Protect Act as “obscene.” The materials in question were several Japanese...

Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing our collective bums off at some of them. Jon_Favreau Is IM2 for...

Time for another installment of Why are we thinking of this? Where we look at some of the bizarre things we can think about for comic book characters. Male Star Sapphires: Why are there no male Star Sapphires? Is it because men are incapable of love? We’re just a bunch of lust-filled...

The Scorpion #1, published in February 1975 featured a great bondage cover and interior art and story by Howard Chaykin. The Scorpion #2, May 1975, featured Chaykin pencils with a stellar inking team of Mike Kaluta, Bernie Wrightson, Walt Simonson and Ed Davis

Things just got a whole lot more interesting for the President.

Though not a comic book we just had to include this issue in our Sleepy Censor segment

The Cover: Well, The Flash simply seems to be killing someone with his super-speed. How? I got no clue how the Flash is killing this guy, all I can see is that his clothes seem to be flying off. So maybe the Flash is killing him with friction and the heat is going to incinerate him. Or this...

The guys over at ComicBookMovie.com have managed to find the first 10 leaked minutes from the Spectre. Check it out here before it inevitably gets pulled. I have to wonder though, was anyone really clamoring for a Spectre cartoon? The character is the wrath of God, which kind of makes it hard...

Some exciting stuff for you Guy Davis fans out there. Guy will be holding a workshop in conjunction with Art Originals and the Toronto Cartoonist Workshop entitled” Constructive Storytelling: The 180 Minute Masterclass with Guy Davis” which will be a three hour workshop that takes...

Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing our collective bums off at some of them. Paul Tobin Hey...

Looks like all Batman needed was preparation time to finally defeat Superman, at least when it comes to dollars earned. A rare copy of the first Batman comic book has surpassed the previous comic book record price, $317,000, paid for a first Superman comic by John Dolmayan, drummer for the...

Jim Rugg and AdHouse Books are hosting an art contest — Objet d’Afro — to help promote the recently released (and very awesome) graphic novel Afrodisiac. Here are the details, from AdHouse’s blog: Objet d’Afro highlights the obvious awesomeness of everyone’s...