Early this week, those absolute bastards over at Vertigo (please excuse the pun) figured out a new way to get money out of me for something that I already own several times over. Remember when they collected the entirety of Neil Gaiman‘s Sandman series into four over-sized ‘Absolute’ slipcased hardcover collections? That was great, wasn’t [...]

Where: Great Hall, Goldsmiths University, New Cross, London When: Saturday, March 12, 2021 - 6pm to 7.30pm Tickets: £3 Mesmerising Italian maestro Lorenzo Mattotti makes a rare visit to London to discuss his career in comics and beyond, including his latest graphic novel Stigmata, translated by Fantagraphics, and his collaborations, from his animated terrors in [...]

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 [...]

Vertigo just released these images from the upcoming Absolute Death collection, set to be released this October. The pin-up feature art from the likes of Jeff Smith, Adam Hughes, Dave McKean, John Totleben, and an as yet released image by Jill Thompson. The Absolute Death collection replaces the previously solicited Compleat (sic) Death collection. DC/Vertigo [...]