Since the relaunch of the Marvel Masterworks program in 2003, Marvel has priced the books at $49.95 for books with the new silver bookjacket design and $54.95 for books with the original marble design. Starting in January, the price will be $54.95 for either edition, but the bindings will be sewn, rather than glued. I [...]

Go here. The interview was in support of Neil’s new project, Fragile Things, a collection of short stories.
He’s not kidding about the lines at his signings, either; I’ve waited 5 hours to get an autograph from him before. And he was as charming at midnight as he was during the 7 pm reading. He’s definitely [...]

This is the first part of Matt Wagner’s Dark Moon Rising Trilogy, in which he reworks three Golden Age stories into modern Batman continuity. We see Batman fight the menace of Huge Strange, a mad scientist who tries to fix the human genome but ends up creating- what else!- monster men. It’s great pulpy fun [...]

Kurtz, creator of PvP, details the events of the live art show he participated in over the weekend. During an auction afterwards, he won a gorgeous piece by Usagi Yojimbo’s Stan Sakai. Take a look:

Congratulations, Scott (you lucky bastard).

Boy, I’m glad I gave this book a second chance.
The Book of Lost Souls is an ongoing series by JMS (Babylon 5) and Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil, Orbiter). Marvel’s publishing it through their Icon imprint of creator-owned books. The story centers around Jonathan, a young man who commits suicide a long time ago. His [...]

Here’s his column in CBR.
He talks about how he ends up buying and rebuying newer editions of his favorite comics, specifically mentioning Absolute/Omnibus/oversized editions.
He did miss one fun aspect of rebuying, though. Last night, my wife told me that one of her friends had an 11-year old son who was just getting into comics, and [...]

Everyone who reads comics wants to write comics. Yes, you too.
Comics are the second easiest storytelling media to create, behind prose. All you need to make a comic is the ability to make words and pictures come together on a page to make a story. If you can draw, take photos, or [...]

Colleen Doran posted this LA Times story about a retiring librarian from Mississippi and his struggles with a community where illiteracy runs rampant. There’s some comics content in there too, including a note about a custom comic the people at Archie created for the community.
I’m lucky. I’ve been able to read all of my [...]

How many major Frank Miller works aren’t in oversized books?
Dark Horse put out Sin City in 8 oversized tomes. Marvel’s putting his Daredevil work into two Omnibus volumes, and they’ve already published his Spider-Man work and collaborations with Bill Sienkiewicz in oversized hardcovers. 300, his story about the Persian invasion of Greece, was originally [...]

Scott Kurtz is best known for his work on the webcomic PvP, one of the longest running and most successful in the field. PvP started mostly as a strip focused on video games and gaming, but has evolved into a very entertaining situational comedy.
But before PvP (and this book), Kurtz was struggling to find [...]