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Filmmaker George Lucas will sit on a panel with director Guillermo del Toro and artist Doug Chiang to discuss the Lucas ...
Jim Shooter died in June 2025, and his life was full of successes, as he went from a teenage comic book creator to the head ...
Comic book culture has come a long way since Joe Field read his first copies of “Amazing Spider-Man” and “Fantastic Four” back in 1967. “In those early days, if you had good close ...
Avatar Press joins anti-Diamond Liquidation comic book publisher coalition, alongside Dynamite, Fantagraphics and Drawn And ...
The original organizers — Towry, Dorf, Richard Alf, Bob Sourk, Barry Alfonso and Dan Stewart — put together the one-day San Diego Golden State Comic-Minicon in March 1970 at the U.S. Grant Hotel.
In 1947 came “All-Negro Comics,” a single-issue, small-press comic book anthology created solely by Black artists and founded by reporter Orrin C. Evans. Advertisement ...
The United States Marines, No. 3, 1944. Paul S. Hirsch/Pulp Empire Paul S. Hirsch: During World War II, comic books were prevalent to a degree that it’s almost impossible to imagine now. They ...
Books Why Boston is a comic book hub — and still nerdy (in the best way) Step inside Greater Boston's thriving comic book culture — and the shops fueling it.