Indie Comics

Via pr: Legendary comic book master Will Eisner's groundbreaking graphic novel "A Contract with God" is being adapted into a live action feature film, it was announced this evening at Comic- Con International 2010 by...

Marvel announced a second series of STRANGE TALES, indies-do-superheroes, at their Mondo Marvel panel this afternoon. It will be a three-issue miniseries with no ads. While hardly a surprise since contributors had been...

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When lists of the most successful and lasting independent comics companies are made up, few people ever include Bongo, known for titles in the "Groening-verse" of Futurama, The Simpsons, and Life in Hell. But...

You would think that writing the script to BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA would be enough to get a person banned for life, but no. Jeff Bushell will be at the Viper Comics booth, roaming fee and unharmed, with his new book, STU BEAR IN THE 25th CENTURY. It turns out he's an okay guy with lots of other writing credits. Let's bury the hatchet and try to live in peace, okay?

Arcana is one of the 700 companies featuring Stan Lee at their booth. Clockwork Girl creator Sean O'Reilly will also be around along with Chris Claremont, assorted WWE divas and movie stars and so on. They also have a tote bag!

Breaking news! THERE WILL BE COMICS AT COMIC-CON! Sparkplug Books, publisher of some of the best comics of Comic-Con -- hopefully their booth will be MOBBED as they supply hundreds of quality comics by people like Benjamin Marra, Katie Skelly, Matthew Thurber and Noah Van Sciver to a comics-starved audience. Sparkplug's entire summer schedule is in the jump.

Batton Lash and Exhibit A Press are back again with a new book. Details below:

FREAKSHOW #1 by David Server, Jackson Lanzing and Joe Suitor highlights the offerings at Ape Entertainment.

By Matthew Murray Buffy returned to its usual position of top selling "indie" book this month, but its the last issue before it goes on hiatus for a few months. "Hellboy in Mexico Or, A Drunken...

It would have pleased Harvey Pekar, I think, that his passing yesterday was noted in every media outlet from the New Yorker to EW, and not just because they made a movie about him, but as a literary figure of worth and stature. Harvey's life's work was in showing that the ordinary was important, and a working class existence was not a prison but a journey through the profound and beautiful that anyone could experience if they took the time. He found that beauty in simple, quotidian things and experiences that others might have found trivial or mundane, but in the end his message was that what else is there? Life as it is lived is the most precious gift of all.

Season Three/Episode Three: It Hurts Me Too It hurts me to tell you what you already know - this recap is late.  Let’s just say my cable company sucks.  So there I was Sunday, all...