Eisner Award winner Mark Waid and Emmy-winning writer/artist Dean Haspiel will team up to launch a new series based on the Red Circle Comics character The Fox for Red Circle parent company Archie Comics. Taking place in the Red Circle Universe, Archie calls the series “an innovative, action-packed superhero story...
Archie Comics today confirmed the passing of George Gladir, the longtime Archie Comics writer who created Sabrina the Teenage Witch with Dan DeCarlo. Gladir passed away Wednesday, the publisher said. Gladir began working for Archie in 1959 and worked there for much of his adult life, earning the Bill Finger Award...
Archie Comics, publisher of the long-running series Life With Archie, announced today that they will launch a new, ongoing zombie series in 2013 titled Afterlife With Archie. A series that asks, “What if the zombie apocalypse began in Riverdale?”, the series is written by former Marvel writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who...
The 2012 San Diego Comic-Con Archie panel featured a very strong list of Archie Comics heavyweights, with Jon Goldwater, Archie Comics Co-CEO, co-CEO Nancy Silberkleit, president Mike Pellerito, editor-in-chief Victor Gorelick, cartoonist Dan Parent, writer Michael Uslan, iVerse Medio CEO Michael Murphey, MoonScoop Entertainment’s Mike Young, producers Don Murphy, writer...
Archie Comics has certainly proven of late that they know how to grab a headline or two. From Kevin Keller’s gay marriage to guest appearances by KISS, Archie Comics has been in the news a lot lately. In the latest twist, the all-American boy Archie Andrews is about to become...
Ok, I’m in my mid-30s (I can finally admit that without feeling panic and fear creep in), and I’m well aware of the role that the T.G.I.F. lineup from ABC played in some part of my upbringing. I also am aware of the mass strip mining of everything from my...
We’ve seen plenty of controversy with the “Life With Archie” series from Archie comics over the past couple of years. From the “Who is he going to Marry?” storyline to the recent Kevin Keller gay marriage episode, it appears as if the series has snatched whatever controversial topic it could...
The controversial “Life With Archie” #16, which features a gay wedding, has sold out according to Archie Comics. I suppose the sell out really isn’t a surprise, seeing how much press—both good and bad—the issue has garnered. Major news outlets, including Fox News, ABC News, CNN and Reuters jumped all...
Archie Comics has officially announced that the Occupy Wall Street Movement will be coming to Riverdale with an Occupy Riverdale story. The Occupy Riverdale storyline will be written by Alex Segura, who is the same writer behind the Archie Meets KISS storyline. Artwork on the series will be by Gisele...
All may not be sunny and friendly dances at Riverdale High. The co-CEO of Archie Comics Nancy Silberkleit had a temporary restraining order placed upon her by a federal judge this week, a response to a lawsuit from Archie Comics as a whole. The original lawsuit stated that Archie Comics wanted...
GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, has released their annual awards nominees, which run a vast gamut of categories from film, to television, to documentary and even to newspaper articles. Also in that list of nominees are five comic book series, each vying to be the recipient of...
Less than two days remain in the auction of Nicolas Cage’s highly graded Action Comics #1. Depending on if there is a flurry of bidding at the end, Cage’s book may or may not set the record for most valuable comic book of all time. So what is the most...
Yesterday, Comicbook.com reported that Marvel Comics and DC Comics were among the first brands to launch Google+ business pages. Now, more comic book publishers are jumping on the Google Plus bandwagon and setting up their own Google+ pages.
In what has to be the most awesome Archie team-up since Archie met the Punisher, the rock and roll band KISS will be making an appearance in Archie Comics. At the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that KISS would be returning to the comic book world with two...
The Archie line of comic books is getting a little more diverse! In February of 2012, Riverdale’s Kevin Keller will get his own solo series, according to Archie Comics co-chief executive Jon Goldwater. Based on Goldwater’s comments, the character’s series came about not because of stunts from the publisher, but...
