Image Comics has announced a new one-shot of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ noir series Criminal.

Monte Cook Games, LLC announced the hiring of Dennis Detwiller as Managing Editor.

The impact of variant covers is very visible when looking at the December comic numbers, with storylines, the old way of influencing sales, also having an effect.

Pop culture historian and author of Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book , Dr. Thomas Andrae is joining Hermes Press as “Special Projects Editor.”

Salkowitz looks at subscription boxes, DC, cons, and the politicization of fandom.

IDW Publishing announced IDW International, a new division which will manage the company’s foreign rights content catalogue for global publishing.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during December 2015.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during December 2015.

After ignoring female creators entirely in a list of 30 potential candidates for this year’s Grand Prix d’ Angouleme, Festival organizers first announced that they would be adding six female creators to the nominees list, only to scrap that notion in favor of allowing the creators who vote on the award to nominate their own choices.

With the focus in December turning from new releases to selling through the most popular titles for the holiday season, only one new volume, Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 4, entered the Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels for December, according to the list provided exclusively to ICv2 by Nielsen BookScan.