comics

A new comic book to explain President Obama's health-care reform is coming! It's being written by Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economist behind many of the reform's concepts! We're talking in exclamation points because we hope the comic book borrows from the over-exclamation of such hallowed comics as...

Marvel Entertainment plans to unveil a new storyline in February titled "Death of Spider-Man," implying that at least one version of the popular 48-year-old character will be killed off. But don't panic, fans. The new storyline won't affect the more mainstream "Adventures of Spider-Man" storyline.

Like the fictional superheroes who inhabited the recent New York Comic Con, Deborah Caldwell-Stone was there to fight injustice: Attempts to ban graphic novels from libraries are threatening to choke off free access to the books. "There are kids who don't have the resources to go to Amazon.com,"...

These days, Little Orphan Annie really does have a hard knock life. Annie, the comic strip, is going to have its final run on Sunday, June 13. After 86 years of being featured in newspapers around the country, the red-haired orphan will no longer have a home among Blondie, Pearls Before Swine,...

Last week on WalletPop, I looked at how Currier & Ives prints and Kodak cameras have provided vastly different economic returns to collectors over the past 40 years. This week, as promised, I asked a few of the smartest antiques and collectibles experts I know one question: Which antiques and...

The comic book industry may not able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but it has withstood the worst economic decline since the Great Depression fairly well. According to industry estimates, sales to specialty retailers rose 1% to $324.66 million between January and September. Experts say...

In 2001, I reported on television about Motion Computing's new Tablet PC. It was billed as the PC of the future, and the future was then, they said. Here we are eight years later, still using laptops with keyboards. How 1990s of us. On Wednesday, Amazon (AMZN) is holding a press conference at Pace...

You may want to get in line now for free Comic Book Day on May 2. Find stores where you can get your free comic book and be prepared for crowds. Comicshoplocator.com is also a good place to find a comic store near you, and you may want to check with your local comic store to see if it's...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. The comics page of my newspaper lost interest for me on January 1st, 1995. That was the day that Gary Larson, author of the single-panel strip The Far Side, put down his inking pen, leaving those...