Just saw the news item about CrossGen canceling Sojourn, one of their best-selling books. Allegedly this is due to “sales being low”, but considering it’s one of their best-sellers it’s far more likely that they have been caught off-guard with no one to work on it after writer Ian Edgington and penciller Greg Land (the…

Greg Land has quit CGE, following the shelving of his “American Power” series with Chuck Dixon. No more is known at this time.

Raven House rescheduled with new artist. The gothic horror miniseries will now premiere in August with Mike Perkins (of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) instead of Leonardo Manco as the artist. Will Perkins be changing books? What does this mean for his spy series? CGE isn’t saying. Newsarama has a good interview with Chuck Dixon about…

Hellboy Top American Graphic Novel in Bookstores

Roz Terrill has won FIRST PLACE in the second round of Small Press Idol! Those of you who hang around our Fuzzball Forum will have already seen NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –her full color version of her entry, as well as her pin-up pages. Roz may be the one to beat in…

Alex Ness of Pop Thought reflects upon Eclipse Comics. The article includes some cool well-armed pics of Beau Smith, Tim Truman and Chuck Dixon. It’s a good article, aside from an HTML coding error that has a picture situated on top of an entire paragraph.

Cast Iron Comics announces the debut of the Von Fange Brothers book, sold online as of today. The cover is by John Byrne and it features a pecan pie recipe by none other than Kurt Busiek! No, I don’t know how Fanzing’s favorite back cover artist Bill Wiist (creators of the VFB) managed to get…

I guess you’ve been wondering why it seems like Phil Meadows and I haven’t been around much lately. Dime Store Productions, the printer/publisher who provides the affordable printing that made Job Wanted and Shooting Star Comics Anthology a reality, has a new contest called Small Press Idol. Like American Idol, it is a way for…

Chuck Dixon’s Raven House will be a new gothic horror ongoing series from CrossGen. I’m glad to see that: A) CrossGen has more stuff coming out, and this is clearly a project planned and begun since all the economic news. B) CrossGen has more Chuck Dixon stuff. C) Chuck Dixon has more work with Way…

Okay, this isn’t exactly NEWS but this site will go away if I can’t pay for it, so I’m directing everyone’s attention to my new eBay auctions for CrossGen’s Digital Comic Books. These DCBs are only available in select stores, and where we have found them (such as music store chains and software franchises) they…