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As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top Publishers, Top 500 Comics, and Top 500 TPBs & GNs for the Entire Year of 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for independently published titles in 2009.
There is some debate over what comics count as indy. Some people claim that it’s an [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 1:52 am
Filed under Featured, Indy Comics, Sales Figures · Tagged Alan Moore, Andy Owens, Archie #600, Archie Comics, Brad Meltzer, Brian K. Vaughan, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Buffy Season Eight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #21, Charlie Adlard, Darick Robertson, Dark Horse, Dynamite Entertainment, Eric Wight, Garth Ennis, Haunt #1, Image Comics, Image United #1, Indy Comics, Jeph Loeb, Joss Whedon, Karl Moline, Kevin O'Neill, Oni Press, Robert Kirkman, sales charts, Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe, Season 8, The Boys, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910, The Walking Dead, Todd Mc Farlane, Tony Moore, Top Indy Comics, Top indy GNs, Top Indy TPBs, Top Shelf, Vol. 4
As a follow-up to my list of the best graphic novels of 2009, I have compiled a list of my favourite comics of 2009 – by which I mean monthly and weekly titles, rather than collections and graphic novels.
I found this list incredibly hard to put together, as I originally intended to write a list [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 1:42 am
Filed under Best of, Creator Owned, Featured, Indy Comics · Tagged 100 Bullets, 2000 AD, Air, Andy Lanning, Batman & Robin, Batman/Doc Savage, Battlefields: The Tankies, Beasts of Burden, Best Comics of 2009, Blackest Night, BPRD 1947, Brian Azzerello, Cable, Captain America, Captain America: Reborn, Chew, Chronicles of Wormwood: The Last Battle, Citizen Rex, Criminal: The Sinners, Crossed, Dan Abnett, Daredevil, Days Missing, Dead Space: Extraction, DMZ, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Doctor Who: Whispering Gallery, Elephantmen, Ex Machina, Fables, Fantastic Four, Fear Agent, FTL (Orang Utan Studios), Ghost Rider: Heaven’s on Fire, Gilbert Hernandez, Godland, Gravel, Greek Street, Groo: The Hogs of Horder, Groom Lake, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hellblazer, Hellboy: The Wild hunt, Hercules: Knives of Kush, Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead, House of Mystery, Ignition City, Immortal Iron Fist, Incognito, Incorruptible, Invincible, Invincible Iron Man, Irredeemable, Jack of Fables, Jeff Smith, JSA All-Stars, JSA vs. Kobra: Engines of Faith, Judge Dredd Megazine, Justice Society of America, Kick-Ass, Locke & Key: Head Games, Mario Hernandez, Mike Carey, North 40, Nova, Peter Gross, Phil Noto, Phonogram 2: Singles Club, Rasl, Secret Warriors, Strange Tales, Stuff of Legend, Stumptown, Sweet Tooth, Tank Girl: Dark Nuggets, Terry Moore’s Echo, The Anchor, The Boys, The Boys: Herogasm, The Dead: Kingdom of Flies (Beserker), The Devil's Handshake (Archaia), The Eternal Conflicts of the Cosmic warrior, The Goon, The Literals, The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, The Unwritten, Umbrella Academy: Dallas, Uncanny, Unknown Soldier, Usagi Yojimbo, Viking, Walking Dead, War of Kings, Wasteland, Wednesday Comics, Western (Accent UK), Whatever Happened to the World’s Fastest Man?, Wolverine: Weapon X, X-Factor, X-Force, X-Men, X-Men: Legacy
Darick Robertson, co-creator and artist of Transmetropolitan and The Boys, announced today that he has joined Standard Attrition, the group blog and message boards for Vertigo creators.
The move sees Darick sharing a community with the likes of Brian Azzerello, Brian Wood, Cliff Chiang, David Lapham, G. Willow Wilson, Jason Aaron, Jeff Lemire, Jock, Joshua Dysart, [...]
As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, and Top 300 TPBs & GNs for November 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for independently published titles in November 2009.
Diamond provided their own indy charts, but I chose to ignore them, for a couple of reasons. [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 12:17 am
Filed under Featured, News, Sales Figures · Tagged Archie #603, Boom Studios, BPRD 1974 #5, Brian K. Vaughan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #30, Casper The Friendly Ghost 60th Anniversary Special, Chew, Dark Horse, Dave McKean, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Vol. 1, Dynamite Entertainment, Garth Ennis, Haunt #2, Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #6, Herogasm, Image Comics, Image United #1, Invincible #68, John Layman, John McCrea, Pictures That Tick, Rob Guillory, Robert Kirkman, Stan Sakai, Star Wars: Legacy #42, Star Wars: Purge, Tank Girl: Skidmarks #1, The Boys, The Boys #36, The Boys: Herogasm #6, The Escapists, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead #67, The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1, Top Indy Comics, Top Indy TPBs & OGNs, Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai, Vol. 10: What We Become, Volume 1: Taster’s Choice, Volume 5
The following comic previews are for Dynamite Entertainment titles on sale Wednesday November 25th 2009.
Please click the the title below that you wish to preview. Once there, please click on the thumbnail images to launch the image viewer. Pictoview is recommended for easier image navigation.
Comics
Buck Rogers #6
Galactica 1980 #3
The Lone Ranger #19
Project Superpowers: Meet [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Filed under Indy Comics, Previews, Weekly Previews · Tagged Buck Rogers #6, Dynamite Entertainment, First Looks, Galactica 1980 #3, Previews, Project Superpowers: Meet the Bad Guys #4 (of 4), Queen Sonja #2, The Boys, The Lone Ranger #19, Volume 5: Herogasm
Dynamite Entertainment have posted an interview with Garth Ennis, which covers his work on The Boys, and the upcoming second volume of Battlefields.
In the interview Ennis discusses the recent two-issue arc, which told the origin story of the Mother’s Milk character, and discusses future story lines, such as the origin of The Frenchman in The [...]
Dynamite Entertainment have just informed Hypergeek that they have received several nominations in this year’s Project Fanboy Awards. The nominations are:
BEST TITLE
The Boys (Dynamite Entertainment)
BEST INDY CHARACTER
Wee Hughie (Dynamite Entertainment)
BEST STORY ARC
We Gotta Go Now (Dynamite Entertainment)
BEST ROOKIE TITLE
Battlefields: The Tankies (Dynamite Entertainment)
To vote in the 2009 Project Fanboy Awards, go to http://awards.projectfanboy.com/?pageid=pfaabout
Dynamite Entertainment recently released their solicitations for comics shipping in December 2009. These comics will appear in the October 2009 issue of Previews Magazine.
DAN DARE OMNIBUS UK EDITION HARDCOVER
ISBN-10: 1-60690-054-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-60690-054-3
Rating: Teen +
Cover: Garry Leach
Writer: Garth Ennis
Penciller/Inker: Gary Erskine
Colorist: Parasurman A.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Awards: N/A
Publication Date: DECEMBER, 2009
Format: Hardcover
Retailer Incentives: TBD
PAGE COUNT: 216
Dimensions: Approx. 10.5″H [...]
Posted by Edward Kaye on Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Filed under Solicitations · Tagged Alex Ross, Athena, Battlefields, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Chuck Dixon, Dan Dar, Darick Robertson, Dreadstar, Dynamite Entertainment, Galactica 1980, Garth Ennis, Gary Erskine, Gary Leach, Happy Valley, Jim Kruger, Jim Starlin, John Cassaday, John Reppion, Joshua Ortega, Leah Moore, Lewis Carol, Matt Wagner, Phil Hester, PJ Holden, Project Superpowers, Queen Sonja, Solicitations, solicits, The Black Terror, The Boys, The complet Alice in Wonderland, The Good the Bad and the ugly, The Lone Ranger, Zorro
