Category: Comic Book News

  • Richie Rich creator dies

    Warren Kremer, 82, drew Casper the Ghost, Richie Rich Kremer created Richie Rich, was influential in Casper’s formation into the character he is today, and may have also created or at least drew Hot Stuff the Li’l Devil (the article isn’t clear on this, although as is typical of comics of the time no credits…

  • Comic Book version of The Onion?

    Now this is funny. 100 BULLETS FAN LOVES NEW ISSUE, CAN’T UNDERSTAND IT

  • Looking over last month’s figures

    Today I’m perusing the Top 300 Comics for March 2003. As always, the top 10 comics are Marvel, mostly X-Men…but oddly enough, Batman is outselling them all at #1 with 23,000 more copies. And JLA, even today’s team written by Joe Kelly, is doing quite well at #11. Still…it’s shocking to see the comics considered…

  • Free Comic Book Day wrap-up

    Today was Free Comic Book Day…and just by happenstance, I happened to be in the Twin Cities today. Swinging by The Source of Comics and Games, I found quite a crowd of people and the free comics were being handed out by the bagful! How was Free Comic Book Day in your area? Discuss it…

  • John Byrne is 100% right!

    John Byrne’s latest IMHO has a piece on the neglect of younger readers in the comic book audience. I don’t know if he’s read my “How To Save The Comic Book Industry”, but he makes some of the same points, and bravo!