I am doing a dissertation this year for my publishing degree on comic book publishers' recent foray into the digital medium as compared to webcomics. I'm really not sure what the hell I'm arguing as yet. The differences in format, marketing, content, social issues, creator ownership etc. as well as the why and the why not I suppose. It will be a lot of rambling most likely.

If anyone has any thoughts on webcomics or digital comics or even the comic book publishing industry as…

                          Image by Kate Brown

The panel originally included Denise Mina,…

When we first set up our website, we created our main site at a different location from our community site. However, over the last few months we've realised that doesn't work optimally for us. We've now got everything handily in the same place.

If you have any feedback on the new look, or have any trouble with the site, please do email us: info@graphicscotland.co.uk.

Thanks,

Graphic…

We’ve been reading comics from the bestseller lists from Amazon, Forbidden Planet (Edinburgh) and Blackwells to see how women are portrayed.

First, we applied the simple Bechdel test to just one of the lists, the top 50 sellers from Amazon. This…

So as a man who works in the rarefied environment of a comic shop there’s a good chance I read more comics…

       The film version...not really very scary at all. 

Recently, I  had to put a comic in the freezer, for being too scary. And I'm a little ashamed to…