Small publishers are still waiting to be paid. Some of them always will be. The story of Diamond comics distribution did not end well.

Métal Hurlant ran from 1974 to 1987. Its DNA is in Blade Runner, Alien, Akira, and Neuromancer. American comics ignored it almost completely.

Jimmy Palmiotti co-created Marvel Knights, wrote over 100 issues of Harley Quinn, and worked with Garth Ennis of The Boys on one of the most defiantly funny comics ever made. You can read it right now, for free.

In March 1938, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster signed a contract transferring the rights of their character Superman to Detective Comics, Inc. In return, they received $130 - split between them, so $65 each.

The British invasion of American comics wasn't accidental. It was trained, weekly, in a newsagents comic that paid peanuts and demanded everything.

1954. One publisher, one psychiatrist, and the most consequential bad day in comics history.

1954. One publisher, one psychiatrist, and the most consequential bad day in comics history.

Turns out if you tell creative people they can't do something, they immediately do it. Every time.

In 1954, a group of men in suits decided comics were destroying America… because of course they were.