Depending on how you want to look at it, there was either one big story this week (San Diego Comic-Con International), or a million smaller stories this week (all the stuff everyone even tangentially related to comics is announcing this weekend). We've got plenty of CA staff reporting from the floor, and, after the jump, we can look back at most of what they're reporting...and CA's other ...

It's no secret that that Warner Bros., like any movie studio, wouldn't mind having something like Marvel's Avengers in its portfolio: A whole family of blockbusters starring individual superheroes that can carry their own sequels, help sell the audience on related movies and unite for a massive team-up of a movie every few years that obliterates box-office records. But if Warner Bros. is ever ...

DC Comics made a couple of unexpected announcements Friday afternoon, revealing high-profile new assignments for veteran writer Ann Nocenti, one of only two women writers working on the publisher's DCU line of comics at the moment, and artist-turned-writer/artist Tony S. Daniel. Nocenti will be taking over the writing chores on Catwoman starting with September's #0 issue, the one with the ...

This week Marvel announced a large, concentrated relaunch and re-branding effort of sorts they're calling "Marvel NOW!", which will launch news series, relaunch older series with new #1s, shake up creative teams and redesigns many costumes over the course of the next few months. Andy Khouri spoke to Marvel execs Joe Quesada, Axel Alonso and Tom Brevoort about their plans here. As for ...

Yesterday may have been Independence Day here in the United States, but public relations never takes a holiday! DC Comics made two notable announcements via their Source blog yesterday, one of which is sure to excite fans of one of their oldest and greatest creators, and another which may excite fans of two particular characters: Artist Joe Kubert will be getting his own miniseries to ...

As Pride Month draws to a close, ComicsAlliance is proud to share the results of a massive survey of comics and comics characters important to LGBT readers, as chosen by an expert panel of comics folks. You can read the list of 50 characters and comics here. And you can read a list of many of the other things we covered in the past week by clicking on the little blue "Keep Reading" box ...

If Shigeru Mizuki's NonNonBa were just the childhood memoir of an extremely talented and influential first-generation manga artist, it would be something well worth reading. If it were just a family drama set in the transitional, pre-war years of Japan, when the old, traditional ways were being replaced by the new ways of a more modern, industrialized world, it would be well worth reading. ...

Counting the days the days until this year's San Diego Comic-Con International? Well next year you can count the days to 2013's show on a Kate Beaton calendar, which you'll be able to score at this year's convention. Over the weekend Drawn & Quarterly, the publisher responsible for 2011's Hark! A Vagrant hardcover collecting Beaton online works in addition to original material, ...

Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat shared the harrowing tale of his attack by pro-government forces, who broke both of his hands in an attempt to stop him from criticizing those in power through his work, in this heart-breaking but ultimately inspiring video. The other sad news story we shared this week didn't have a happy ending: Comics writer Robert L. Washington III passed away a few weeks ago, ...

Ordinary men and women blessed with extraordinary abilities who fight for what they believe in no matter the consequences aren't exclusive to superhero comics. Catholic saints also possessed such powers as levitation, flight, extra-sensory perception and the ability to communicate with animals and used these skills to help those around them. Igor Scalisi Palminteri makes this connection ...