Golden wood shelves were densely packed, comics on top of comics on top of comics.
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Carmine Street Comics stocks all the latest popular titles, along with indie comics, self-published comics and graphic novels.
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I grew up reading comics, surrounded by comics, and watching my mother face the incredible sexism of the comics world.
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Marvel Comics' Runaways has been an underdog in superhero comics.
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Most of Loot's collection is superhero comics, not children's comics.
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MLJ Comics gets its name from the creators of Archie Comics.
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We actually sell Audio Comics productions at Comics Empower, and I hope that Graphic Audio will allow us to sell its comics as well.
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"You're just looking at comics being comics," the 38-year-old said.
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Other comics play more directly with the history of comics' genre conventions.
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Younger fans of superhero comics — and fans of comics about young superheroes.
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I use his work to turn non-comics readers into comics readers.
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BLADES I've got Action Comics No. 1 and Detective Comics No. 27.
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Having said that, Comics Empower does create a lot of audio productions for comics, and we do it differently from Graphic Audio or Audio Comics.
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Every time the label "comics" is appended to something so radically different than what we have known as comics, the question arises: What exactly are comics?
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Where I grew up, they didn't have Batman comics; they had Superman comics.
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There are so many more Black comics, so many more openly gay comics.
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In 2011, DC Comics relaunched all its comics with the New 52 initiative.
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Check these comics out at your local comic shop, or online at DC Comics.
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When Archie Comics was first started in 1939, the company's name was MLJ Comics.
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So using the comics as source material, I was drawing, and was able to fully play off the idea that they're both real comics and aren't real comics.
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She and Fowler knew one another through the world of comics—Fowler organizes a yearly comics festival in Brooklyn and is the owner of Desert Island, a comics store.
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As a young comics fan in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I loved all sorts of cartoons—comic strips, New Yorker cartoons, underground comics, and, yes, superhero comics.
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Television, and use licensed characters from publishers like DC Comics (Batwoman) or Archie Comics (Riverdale).
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A lot of the time, what I love best about comics is that they're comics.
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Spotify has partnered up with Nerdist to offer motion comics based on new Archie comics.
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"Comics readers — the ones buying the monthly comics — are the focus group," Mr. Miller said.
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The DC Comics deal is a departure for Mr. Whedon from the Marvel comics universe.
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My dad got me a couple of Superman comics and I immediately started making my own comics, so I've been making comics my whole life, in one form or another.
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As much as reading comics inspires me and is important to creating great comics, there's also some truth that if I'm busy reading comics I'm not busy enough writing them.
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When Archie comics took off, Timely hit the stands with a spate of teen comedies, and then repeated the trick with the rise of westerns, romance comics, and horror comics.
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Children's comics are dominating the comic industryChildren's comics surpassed superhero comics as the biggest genre in the comic industry this year, industry website ICv2 revealed at a conference last month.
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Lee got started in comics in 1939, when he joined Timely Comics as an office assistant.
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But he also makes an aesthetic argument: Comics are comics, not proving grounds for cinematic ideas.
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He brought Marvel Comics back from the dead, and with it the whole industry of comics.
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Some of the other characters include the superheroes from Dark Circle Comics, an Archie Comics imprint.
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What do you think about the wave of biography comics and comics based on famous novels?
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Kickstarters support all types of comics projects, spanning from well known comics publishers like Action Lab Comics (creator of the Eisner Award nominated Princeless series), to individual artists with popular ideas.
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The Comics Empower website was designed to put blind and visually impaired customers first by providing original and adapted audio comics produced in-house, plus audio comics produced by other companies.
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Last month, ComiXology launched its own subscription service, comiXology Unlimited, that features thousands of comics from publishers like Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics and a number of other small and midtier publishers.
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People who didn't read comics knew who Archie was, and with the rise of comics and graphic novels in pop culture, Goldwater dedicated himself to revitalizing Archie Comics for a contemporary audience.
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George was an underground comic book writer and distributor Unlike most fathers trying to get their sons into comics, George didn't expose his son to mainstream comics like Marvel and DC Comics.
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That book garnered widespread critical acclaim, with write-ups in The Comics Journal, Comics Alliance, and VICE.
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Image: Evan Dorkin and Veronica Fish (Dark Horse Comics)Evan Dorkin can't stop, won't stop making comics.
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This week's best comics are all indie or smaller publisher comics, and a few are even debuts.
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He started working in comics at age 16 for Marvel UK, the British imprint of Marvel Comics.
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In September, Ahoy Comics introduced a magazine-style format, publishing comics that included extras like prose stories.
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Some of your comics offer a playful look at the world, while other comics can be pretty dark.
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Millarworld was founded by comics writer Mark Millar, who has worked on franchises for Marvel and DC Comics.
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Comics is a dance between words and art, and the best comics draw on the strengths of both.
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The most exciting news in comics this week is the launch of DC Comics' new imprint, Young Animal.
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In recent years Mr. Coates, a Marvel Comics fan, has been writing Black Panther and Captain America comics.
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And comics tend to be weirder also for that reason, and that's another thing I love about comics.
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Later, I would discover companies like Audio Comics and Graphic Audio, which have produced audio versions of comics.
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I like to make the comics, but I don't care enough about selling comics to come out here.
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Dr. Louie Dean Valencia Garcia is a lecturer of history and literature at Harvard University who has done significant research into comics—including the mainstream universe of DC Comics, as well as independent comics.
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Harvey Comics—who produced the comics about the supernatural children Casper, Wendy, Hot Stuff, and the giant idiot duck, Baby Huey—also made a few records that would get packaged with multipacks of their comics.
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The nine comics we've ranked below — well, 20163 comics once you count our tie for the number one spot — have been our favorite established/ongoing series in 2016 (check out our favorite new comics here).
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I feel personally honored that Chip Kidd cares about comics and blesses us by crafting perfect objects about comics.
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Some people have complained that I'm reviewing too many dolls and not enough comics in my comics-review column.
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And the way they are buying comics is not the way the typical Wednesday comic customer is buying comics.
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After all, now that you can read comics, there is no reason in the world you can't write comics.
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"I really wanted to pursue the racial literacy, historical literacy, and cultural dialogues that are coming out of comics—the stuff that gets me excited about comics—so I created the Black Comics Collective," Hollman said.
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There are some great male comics out there, but I think the most exciting new comics right now are women.
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Comics fans know Captain Marvel, aka Carol Danvers, as one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel comics canon.
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That's true to the character's comics origin, as told during comics' so-called Kung-Fu Craze of the mid-1970s.
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"The Black Hood" is a character created by MLJ Comics, which, later, was renamed Archie Comics after the iconic redhead.
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DC Comics, once known as Detective Comics, slowly came to life and prosperity in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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All of the comics in this new book are a little weird, but all romance comics are a little weird.
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This is Gabe Fowler who owns Desert Island Comics, a great comics store off the Lorimer L Stop in Brooklyn.
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These monster and supernatural comics were a pivotal building block for Marvel Comics, which essentially re-cast monsters as heroes.
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It makes sense – Amazon makes Prime Originals for video, so why wouldn't its digital comics brand make its own comics?
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Your attitude after bombing distinguishes the comics who are the real deal from the comics who aren't the real deal.
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My entry into the world of comics was "Super Friends" (26-503), which united DC Comics heroes in animated form.
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Then I discovered the underground comics of the '60s and '70s — R. Crumb, Justin Green, rebellious comics, against the man.
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That is why — and that's one of the things I love about comics — comics are incredibly responsive for that reason.
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You can mix photos, but really good comics — the best comics you can think of — they're using Pantone spot colors.
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I usually think that comics that rely on narration are lazy and aren't embracing the strength of the comics medium.
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Move over, comic book heroes: "Comics' First Superhero" (according to comics historian Don Markstein, at least) is coming to the multiplex.
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The TV miniverse is a joint product of DC Comics (which created the comics the shows are based on), Warner Bros.
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Sam Also Becomes Captain America In The Comics And there's actual precedent in the comics that supports Sam becoming Captain America.
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My background in comics refers to the fact that comics are the reason I became an artist in the first place.
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Comics enter the archive a few months after they hit the stands, making it akin to a Netflix for Marvel Comics.
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Eric Reynolds, Associate Publisher of alternative comics house Fantagraphics, bluntly sums up the opinion of many in the indie comics community.
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Making a list of the top ten comics of 2017 was difficult since ten good comics didn't get published this year.
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"Mortal Kombat 11" will add the Joker from DC Comics in January 2020, and Spawn from Image Comics in March 2020.
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It's not 3D comics, per se, but as a reader, you feel like you're hovering in front of the comics panel.
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As his career went along he began drawing more and more war comics, including work on G.I. Combat for DC Comics.
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Whatever love one carries for paper comics, the feel of going to the local shop and having a pull list of comics waiting for them, it's hard to deny the impact smartly designed digital comics have on the market.
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Timely Comics would re-invent itself every decade or so, first as Atlas Comics in the 1950s and then as Marvel Comics in 1961, but Lee remained at the editorial helm until 1972, interrupted only by his wartime service.
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Lee's comics career began in 1939, when the 17-year-old took an assistant job at Timely Comics, the predecessor to Marvel.
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Unlike some of the other comics in this week's roundup, readers who haven't been reading previous Batman comics will feel hopelessly lost.
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If readers are new to comics, or new to indie comics, the characters featured in War present a great place to start.
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Mignola started his comics career as a teenager in 1980s California, where he attended art school and illustrated for The Comics Reader.
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Here they are: March 22009 Detective Comics was an anthology series that began in 2010 that eventually gave DC Comics its name.
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Sometimes that pays off in articles on topics like how comics are reflecting the political climate or how comics are handling diversity.
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The Watchmen comics are celebrated because they challenged popular notions about superheroes and comics, changing our perceptions of what they could be.
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Mr. Kane went on his own to National Comics Publications, the forerunner of DC Comics, with the concept and kept full credit.
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