Mark Waid, one of my favorite writers and the guy behind such bestselling works as Kingdom Come, 52, and Irredeemable, has been working as the Chief Creative Officer at Boom! Studios for the past three years. Last week, though, the company announced that Waid would be stepping down from that position in order to concentrate on freelance writing, which will still include Irredeemable, Incorruptible, and The Traveler (his new collaboration with Stan Lee). Good luck to Mark, and I look forward to keeping up with what you do next.

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Congrats to Walking Dead for earning a Golden Globe nomination! it's nice to seet that this show, which is earning record ratings, is recognized for its great talent.

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As the president of Archie Comics, Mike Pellerito oversees a line with decades of history, nostalgia, and all-American prominence. It’s also a line that has recently seen updates that bring it firmly into the 21st century, from the marriage of Archie to the introduction of a gay character. We caught up with Mike to discuss what he sees going on in the industry and how Archie Comics can be a part of it.

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Celebrated comics artist and creator Lynda Barry will be on NPR's Talk of the Nation today to discuss her works like Picture This and What It Is. With the explosion of graphic memoirs that have come out recently, particularly in the wake of her how-to books, it's sure to be an interesting conversation.

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Through the years, I've been a member of several reading groups. Unfortunately, they've rarely involved graphic novels (and when they did, it was at my suggestion). This is why I've always loved events like comics conventions: By and large, the vast majority of my friends and family do not read comics, so conventions were always a chance to meet with like-minded people.

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USA Today features a fun and interesting review of a new (and, for better or worse, very timely) new graphic novel: The Adventures of Unemployed Man by Erich Origen and Gan Golan. The $14.99 book is from Little, Brown. (The names of the villains made me laugh: The Man, The Human Resource, and the killers Nickel & Dime.) It's unfortunate that the book fits in with society's ills right now...but maybe it's better to laugh.

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The Walking Dead is coming to TV this Sunday (Halloween), and walking dead zombies are invading 26 cities around the globe tomorrow. So get ready! The undead will be wreaking havoc everywhere from New York to Athens to Rome. That's a lot of zombies and a lot of carnage. Read on for more details, including the press release.

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I'm a huge fan of Walking Dead, so I'm understandably excited about the upcoming TV series on AMC. It's debuting, appropriately enough, on Halloween (if you couldn't guess by the title, it's a series about zombies). It's also a graphic and emotionally shocking series (at least in comics; I'm incredibly curious to see how closely the TV show will hew to the source material and how well that will play out with a TV audience if they do). Actor Andrew Lincoln seems like a nice choice to play the lead.

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I'm a little late in getting this posted (due to an unfortunate week without internet connectivity), but I wanted to post some brief musings on the wonderful world of comics that occurred last weekend. It began with the excellent ICv2 conference on Thursday (put on by Milton Griepp), which covered the current state of the industry. In brief, it turns out individual monthly comics sales are up slightly, manga sales are down for the third year in a row, and digital sales are up tremendously. (More about that manga number in a minute.) PW Comics Week did a nice job covering this conference; check it out for more info.

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Mark Waid, editor-in-chief of Boom! Studios, has partnered with The Hero Initiative for a new program that will help a very worthy cause. The venture allows comics fans (and their friends and family) in California, Nevada, Illinois, and Indiana to align their supermarket rewards cards (including Ralphs, Food4Less, Cala Foods, and Bell Markets) with the Community Contributions program to help comic book creators in need of emergency medical aid, financial support, and other needs.

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