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Mike Mignola's ''Bowling With Corpses'' is full of suspicious shadows and offbeat jokes. BOWLING WITH CORPSES & OTHER STRANGE TALES FROM LANDS UNKNOWN, by Mike Mignola I'm sure the artist [...]

The year 2024 was an especially good year for comics readers who had been waiting a long time. Olivier Schrauwen brought his magisterial ''Sunday'' to a close after five years. [...]

There be monsters in four new volumes out this month (yes, even in ''Nancy''). The seven-year wait since Emil Ferris published her debut graphic novel has felt far longer than [...]

Minimalist landscapes, maximalist extraterrestrials and schlock movie stars populate this month's diverse offerings. Sometimes, design is everything. In SPIRAL AND OTHER STORIES (New York Review Comics, 208 pp., $24.95), by [...]

Circus tigers, giant spiders, shifting borders and motherhood all threaten to end life as we know it in comics this month. You never know what's going to go wrong, until [...]

Punk rock, Greek myth and a comics pioneer long lost to history bring vibrant color to this month's releases. In four new graphic novels, the world is changing, and our [...]

Good graphic novels tend to appear in bookstores seemingly out of nowhere after years of rumors, scattershot serialization, ''process'' zines and snippets posted to social media. As literature, long-form comics [...]

HIS NOVELS HAVE SOLD MILLIONS OF COPIES AND HAVE BEEN TURNED INTO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS, INCLUDING CBS' FORTHCOMING ZOO. SO WHY DOES THE ONETIME ADMAN STILL FEEL MISUNDERSTOOD? 'Nobody [...]

What looks like an entertainment company, spends like an entertainment company and programs like an entertainment company? It's Hasbro, a toymaker. Hasbro makes not just toys but also hugely popular [...]

DC ENTERTAINMENT'S LEGION OF SUPERHEROES SWOOPS INTO PRIME TIME WITH SERIES LIKE THE FLASH, ARROW AND THE FORTHCOMING IZOMBIE. CAN THEY SAVE NETWORK TV? From Superman and Wonder Woman to [...]

Disembodied, badly equalized and with no musical cues or ambient sound around it, the nonetheless recognizable voice of Kevin Spacey in sneering antihero mode fuzzes over the computer speakers. 'You [...]

You're going to be seeing a lot of Taylor Kitsch very soon. The actor will co-star in the upcoming season of HBO's True Detective, he's landed the big celebrity-driven spot [...]

Honestly, if this keeps up, they're just going to have to rename the Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Comedy the Jim Parsons Award. Last week, the 41-year-old won [...]

At the moment, Mike Hopkins has the two hardest jobs in online video. The first is as CEO of Hulu (its third in a year and a half), where he's [...]

BONNIE HAMMER GOT FAMOUS FOR TURNING USA INTO A BILLION-DOLLAR PROPERTY. NOW SHE'S CAREFULLY BRANDING EVERY PART OF THE CORNERSTONE OF NBCUNIVERSAL. In Bonnie Hammer's well-appointed office there is a [...]

In last season's premiere of FX's American Horror Story, two teenagers are lying on the bed, nervously making out. 'I don't want to hurt you,' says the boy, moments before [...]

Fred Seibert is sitting in his New York office, filled with Legos and comic books, talking enthusiastically about his first big failure. Thirty-two years ago, Seibert was hired away from [...]

A new type of video game-toy hybrid is invading toy (and game) stores everywhere, breathing new life into old intellectual property and driving parents nuts with hundreds of dollars' worth [...]

The lazy, entitled, trustafarian technocrats we envision are actually poorer, harder working and more present on traditional media. Marketers, take note. It's the best time in the world to be [...]

A generation ago if you asked a marketing chief to describe effective branding, he or she might have talked about a good TV spot or in-store promo. But ask winners [...]

From coffee cozies to Instagram contests, from swimming with sharks to mingling with zombies, 10 media agencies seek out creative solutions and deliver outstanding results for their clients. JUDGES Adweek [...]

Media guys, marketers and retailers join the hordes at Comic-Con. What do they get out of it? Meanwhile, in San Diego, something unusual is afoot! Who are these strangers walking [...]

Cable vs. Streaming To echo a familiar refrain, consumers are mad as hell and not about to take it from cable companies anymore! Networks are dinosaurs who think the big [...]

'Guys, please don't take pictures of that,' said the publicist ushering journalists around Lego's booth at this past February's Toy Fair in New York. Indeed, several little configurations of plastic [...]

It's about 9 p.m. New York time, and Jon Mandel is in Seattle, on the phone, telling a story about the story the Nielsen ratings weren't telling. 'It was Danny [...]

At the risk of stating the obvious, $105 million is a lot of money. That's about what Comcast and NBCUniversal have shelled out on the new Syfy series and video [...]

There were two big observations out of the annual Consumer Electronics Show last week. First, from media giants like AOL and Comcast emerged the common vision that 2013 will be [...]

Roanoke, Va., makes up half of the 68th-largest DMA in the country, and while it's just a four-hour drive from Washington, D.C., it may as well be a world away. [...]

Children's TV may have a problem on its hands: to a large slice of its target demo, a television is just a dumb iPad. Consider these stats: Cable viewership among [...]

Call it the Hispanic TV baby boom. For decades, the biggest player in the game has been Univision, and while that's not going to change anytime soon, dozens of newcomers--some [...]

THE GIANT FLOATING STONE HEAD that mediates between high culture and low has spoken--and it has cast its vote for science fiction. Walk in front of an audience filled with [...]

THE BIBLE IS A BOOK THAT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to read cover to cover. It appears, even by the most conservative estimates, to have been written (if you count translators and [...]

I had been putting what little money I had in ocean frontage,' said Will Rogers, 'for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, [...]

All right, so you've heard CES is about the wearable Internet this year --the gadgets you whip out at a party or over dinner or (God forbid) in the car. [...]