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 small press titles in November 2009. Diamond provided their own small press charts, but I chose to ignore them, for a couple [...]

Diamond Distribution have just supplied Hypergeek with a full run down of their November 2009 Direct Market sales figures. If you are not familiar with how Diamond’s sales figures, here’s how they are calculated: Data for Diamond’s sales charts—which include the monthly market shares and all top product charts—are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from [...]

Stumptown is a brand new ongoing crime series from Oni Press. The series is written and created by Greg Rucka, and marks his first creator-owned comic series since the Eisner award-winning Queen & Country. If you’ve not yet checked out Stumptown #1 yet, make sure you check out my review (see here) of the series [...]

Oni Press have just informed Hypergeek that Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth’s Stumptown #1 has sold out at the distributor level, though copies may still be available at the retail level. See below to read the official press release: Amidst a barrage of glowing reviews Oni Press is reporting today that, less than one week [...]

Hypergeek’s Hot Picks is a weekly column on the site, where I take a look through the list of comics released that week, and decide which ones I think are worth picking up. With most of the comics that I recommend, I have usually read a pre-release copy, and enjoyed it, or I have read [...]

Oni Press have just informed Hypergeek that Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth will be signing their new creator owned comic series, Stumptown, at Cosmic Monkey Comics in Portland, Oregon tomorrow afternoon (Nov 4th) between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. To see the Hypergeek review of Stumptown #1 click here, and to see a five-page preview [...]

Stumptown is a brand new ongoing crime series from Oni Press. The series is written and created by Greg Rucka, and marks his first creator-owned comic series since the Eisner award-winning Queen & Country. The artwork on the series is by Mattew Southworth, and is coloured by Lee Loughridge. Stumptown follows the misadventures of a [...]

Oni Press have supplied Hypergeek with a five-page preview of Stumptown #1 by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth. Stumptown #1 is the first issue of an ongoing series of mini-series, and the first creator owned work from Greg Rucka since the Eisner award winning Queen & Country. Stumptown #1 is set to be released on [...]