Mask Use at NYCC - And 49 Bleeding Cool Stories You Might Have Missed Out On

New York Comic-Con is happening, but us Brits can't come to America. So you get this instead.

A few NYCC tales to get you in the mood… whether you are here or not.

1. Retailer Ejected From New York Comic Con For Refusing To Wear A Mask

2. When Scott Snyder Got In a "Bar Fight" With Dan DiDio At NYCC

3. Andy Serkis' New Comic 'Eternus' Launches at New York Comic Con

4. Tee Franklin Met Marc Guggenheim, Who Helped Her Get Harley Quinn

And a look at the paper/printer/distribution crisis hitting comic book publishers and stores right now.

1. There Is Not Enough Paper In America For Comic Books Right Now

2. Bad Idea Comics Delays December Solicitations Over Printing Issues

3. Penguin Random House Lost First Marvel Comics Shipment To DCBS

4. A Letter From A Comic Shop Owner To Marvel About Penguin Random House

5. A Lot Of Late DC Comics Due To Printer & Paper Problems

6. Penguin Random House Apologises for Marvel Comics Distribution Issues

7. Penguin Random House Making Changes To Marvel Comics Packaging

8. Ingram Increases Print-On-Demand Prices in the USA by 6%

9. Increased Driver Wages & Customs Congestion Affect Comics Distribution

A tonne more stories charting the changes in the comic industry and recording its history

1. John Dolmayan Setting Up A Comics Grading Service, Trust Grading

2. DC's Editor-In-Chief Hugged James Tynion IV When Batman Sold 200K

3. Fanboy Rampage: David Michelinie Vs Erik Larsen Over Venom Creation

4. Pat Lee Is Back For NFT Comic Book Collectibles – Of Course He Is

5. Todd McFarlane On Spider-Man #1 Artwork He Is Not Selling… Yet

6. George Mann Writes Graphic Novel, Motherbridge: Seeds of Change

7. Does DC Comics Have Their Own Squid Game In Unfollow?

8. The Pride Omnibus, Selling Better In Book Stores Than Comic Shops

9. Nidhi Chanani Auctions Her Super Boba Café Graphic Novel To Abrams

10. Peculiar Woods, New Graphic Novel by Wawawiwa's Andrés J. Colmenares

11. Marvel Comics Decided To Switch The Gender Of Venom

12. Multiversal Doctor Octopus in Devil's Reign: The Superior Four

13. Marvel Comics To Publish Devil's Reign: X-Men In January

14. Nicole Valdez Moves From Random House Graphic to Simon & Schuster

15. DC Comics Cancels John Paul Leon's Batman/Catwoman Special For Now

16. Chris Duffy & Esther Cajahuaringa Hired by Sterling for Graphic Novels

17. "Not All Supermen" Tim Hanley On Sexism, Comics And Toxic Masculinity

18. ComiXology Drop Pre-Ordered Digital Comics from Website

19. Power Rangers, Boom Studios, Kyle Higgins and Kickstarter Royalties

20. Aquaman Returns To His Blue Costume In January 2022

21. Comics Folk React To Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Outage Of 2021

22. Girls Give Me Butterflies, a Sapphic Lizzie McGuire by Dresden Douglas

23. Robert Venditti & Olivia Stephens Adapt Tristan Strong Graphic Novel

24. Parachute Kids, a New Middle-Grade Graphic Novel by Betty C. Tang

25. Comics Creators React To… British Petrol & Fuel Crisis

26. Is Pam Lifford Vs Ike Perlmutter Why There Is No Marvel/DC Crossover?

27. Batman Does His Own Kamen Rider Decade Story From DC Comics

28. Everyone Is White On The Internet by Nadia Shammas & Molly Murakami

And other media, because it can’t just be comic books… though it mostly is.

1. Sir Lenny Henry On Being A Black Hobbit In The Lord Of The Rings

2. Bookmakers Pull All Bets On The Next Doctor Who — Is The Fix In?

3. William Hill & Ladbrokes Reopen Doctor Who Bets, Olly Alexander at 1:2

4. Big Bets On Lydia West As The New Doctor Who Caused Market Crash

5. Alan Moore's The Show, On Demand Now, DVD/Blu-Ray Next Month

6. Fewer Comic Creators, More TV/Film/Gaming/Toy Stars At DC Fandome

7. Footsteps On The Wind, Played Out At The Serpentine With Sting

8. Ted Lasso's Trent Crimm (Independent) Is The Worst Journalist On TV