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George Takei meets Kevin Keller in Archie Comics
In October, one gay icon meets another, in Archie Comics. Kevin Keller #6 will co-star George Takei, best known as Lieutenant Sulu. And it was at a comic convention that George met Kevin’s creator Dan...
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Archie Comics hires Jim Sokolowski; promotes Alex Segura, Harold Buchholz,...
Jim Sokolowski, formerly of Marvel and DC Comics, joins Archie Comics as Senior Vice President – Sales and Business Development. “Ski” will oversee the company’s sales efforts in the direct,...
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Archie Digital Exclusive: Comic Con Chaos!
Comic Con is just around the corner, and Archie and the gang are all set for whatever adventures (or misadventures!) may come their way. Which one of the girls will win the Cosplay Costume Contest?...
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Ed Catto: Returning to Riverdale
Riverdale returns to the CW Wednesday night. The second season promises more of the guilty pleasures served up in this surprisingly fun take of the Archie gang. It’s been wicked fun and I’m encouraged...
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Archie Comics CEOs end their court fight… for now
Have we achieved peace in our time? The Associated Press piece is skeptical… The two CEOs of the company that publishes Archie Comics on Wednesday ended their court feud over control of the comics...
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New Crusaders Brings Archie Heroes Back
With four months of digital success under their belt, Archie Comics brings their superhero stable back to comic shops with the first print issue of New Crusaders, in comic shops this week. Each issue...
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Mike Gold: Archie’s Sex Change
I have reported here and elsewhere about the goings-on at Archie Comics. While DC keeps on hitting the reset button like a monkey in a crack experiment, and Marvel keeps on doing endless – literally...
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Emily S. Whitten: Billy West at Awesome Con DC!
Looks like it is just Interview Central around here these days, folks. Because following up on last week’s column, in which I briefly recapped my Awesome Con DC experience and posted my interview with...
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Mike Gold: Archie’s Thyroid
When I started my first term at DC Comics back in 1976, DC’s then-VP of production Jack Adler told me the story of the biggest comic book the company never published: Blockbuster. It was purported to...
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Harvey Awards 2013 Final Ballot Announced, “Hawkeye” Gets 7 Noms
The final ballot for the 2013 Harvey Awards is now available. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in...
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Mike Gold: Top Comics Pulls of 2013
You can tell when the year is coming to an end when media outlets start offering their various and sundry “best of” lists. We here at ComicMix are no exception, so for the third consecutive year,...
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The Point Radio: Vera Farmiga – One Talented Mother On BATES MOTEL
The alluring Vera Farmiga earned that Emmy nomination and much more with her portrayal of Norma Bates in A&E’s BATES MOTEL. Now the second season is set to start next Monday (10pm ET on A&E)...
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REVIEW: The King of Comedy
There’s a scene early on in The King of Comedy where late night talk show host Jerry Langford (played by Jerry Lewis) leaves his New York City apartment and walks through crowded midtown on his way to...
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Mike Gold: Comic Books Are Heavier Than Ever!
This time around the honor of writing the last ComicMix column of 2014 falls to me, and I am grateful for the opportunity to taunt the gods and goddesses of irony once more before the Cherub of the...
View ArticleMike Gold: Archie – WTF?
I know it says “Dark Circle” on the cover. In the past the cover has said “Red Circle” and before that “Archie” and before that “MLJ.” But it’s all Archie Comics to me, and I mean that as a...
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Martha Thomases: Betty and Veronica and Adam Hughes and Sex
This week, Archie Comics announced a Kickstarter campaign to launch a bunch of new titles. If you read the comments at the link (which normally, I would never recommend), you’ll see people who object...
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John Ostrander: Paving The Way
Friday was a landmark day for this country. The Supreme Court effectively said that same sex marriage was legal in all 50 states. In doing that, they reflected the views of American citizens: 63% of...
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Mike Gold: TV Comics – Room For Another?
This is the time of year when the broadcast networks start to reveal their pilots for the upcoming fall season. The fact that the broadcast networks still think in terms of a “fall season” is simply...
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Martha Thomases: Jughead’s Sex Life
This column is going to make me sound old. Really really really old. In the new issue of Jughead by Chip Zdarsky and Erica Henderson, Jughead comes out as asexual. As I write this, it hasn’t yet...
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Joe Corallo: Greater Queerness
Over the last week or so, we’ve seen two positive affirmations of the greater queer community at two of the biggest comic franchises. Over at Archie Comics, Jughead is officially asexual. Down at...
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Supergirl Flies To Archie’s House
If you are one of the confused masses who have been wondering why Supergirl was on CBS and not on the CW, stop wondering. Everybody decided the CBS thing was a mistake, and Supergirl will be joining...
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Mike Gold: Archie Is Too Cool For Words
Lately, my Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind kickass rock and blues Internet radio show has spilled over into my ComicMix column. But it’s hard for me to restrain myself, and besides, self-restraint...
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Martha Thomases: We’re A Happy Family!
Ah, the dog days of August. Carefree times when our only worries are going outside where we might sweat to death or staying inside and being driven insane. Luckily, we have each other, right? We can...
View ArticleTweeks: Riverdale Cast Interviews
As you know, Anya is a huge fan of the Archie comics (those were her comics gateway drug) and she also fangirls hard over CW teen dramas, so Riverdale, premiering on The CW January 26, 2017, is kind...
View ArticleTweeks: Review Riverdale
Maddy & Anya review the first two episodes of The CW’s new teen drama Riverdale comparing it to the comics.
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