What is this? Every week I like to pull apart Diamond’s confirmed shipping list for the week, and create a list of all of the creator-owned titles that will be arriving in stores that Wednesday. I then use the magic of Flash to pull the details on the books from comiXology.com, and hey presto! Why? [...]

We are now well into 2011, and I think that pretty much everybody has finished posting their best of 2010 lists. Well, I figure it’s about time to stop looking back, and start looking forward. To this end, I have put together a list of comic related things that I am looking forward to in [...]

Fall of the Wolfmen is a 70 page comic, written by Dave West, with artwork by Andy Bloor. The title is released by Accent UK, and is a sequel to their 2008 release, The Wolfmen. The title is available to order from http://www.accentukcomics.com/, for the price of £3.90, $5.95, 5 Euros, or 35Kr (Danish). It [...]

The Man of Glass is a 44 page, full color, one-shot / graphic novella from the nice people at Accent UK. The book is written and illustrated by Danish creator, Martin Flink. The book is already available directly from Accent UK’s website, and has just appeared in the October issue of Diamond’s Previews magazine, for [...]

You’ve probably heard about CLiNT magazine by now, the new monthly comics anthology put together by Mark Millar. Well, a teaser trailer for the magazine has hit the internet, and I’ve included it below. It’s nothing impressive, and doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know, but it’s very flashy! Moving beyond that, I wanted [...]

Last year, Diamond Distribution made some changes to it’s minimum order policy, which had very negative effects on small press publishers. Diamond decreed that even if a product appeared in Previews magazine, and retailers put in orders for said product, if the number of orders did not reach their new, higher, minimum order, they would [...]

[Hey readers. I noticed that this articles is getting a LOT of hits right now. Just so you know, this is NOT my best of 2010 list. This is a list that I wrote in January, listing stuff that I was most looking forward to in the year. You can find my best of 2010 [...]

The Small Press Spotlight is a semi-regular feature on Hypergeek where I dedicate an article to all the excellent small press and indie publishers out there, as well as self-publishing artists. This is accomplished in the form of company/creator profiles, highlights of key works, reviews of the company/individual’s latest releases, and general articles about the [...]

I mentioned this convention a few months ago, as I was REALLY looking forward to going. At the time I was working, and my mum, whilst very ill, still had a decent prognosis from the doctors, so I was planning to come back and visit her and also hit the show! Sadly, I lost my [...]

I have just been informed by Colin Methieson of Accent UK (see Small Press Spotlight) that Accent’s latest project, Whatever Happened to the World’s Fastest Man (WHTTWFM) was picked up by Diamond Distribution and will be available to order in November 09′s Previews Magazine for shipping in January 2010. No order code has been assigned [...]