Todd Phillips' The Joker set a new October weekend box office record with an estimated $93.5 million debut, but it still wasn't enough to insure a year-over-year win as the total box office was down 18.2% from the same weekend last year when Venom debuted with $80.2 million.

IDW Publishing announced a series of hires in sales, marketing and operations, including several employees returning to the company.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include arguably the most entertaining Spider-Man movie yet, a Christmas zombie apocalypse musical, an excellent TV series adaptation of Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol previously available only on the DC Universe streaming service, Kevin Williamson’s dark fantasy take on traditional fairy tales, and more of the wacky, surreal FLCL anime from Production IG.

Blacksad is getting a new round of activity in the coming months, with the release of a videogame based on the property and a new Dark Horse Comics collection.

Torpedo Comics was opened in 2017 by System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan, and is a prototypical high-end comic book shop.

Marvel Comics has announced two new collections and a poster book, all releasing before the movie premiere next May.

We round up a plethora of manga news from recent days.

These are estimate of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2019.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2019.

Sales of comics and graphic novels to comic stores were down 5.76% vs. August 2018, an impressive performance in a month with one fewer week.