Dan DiDio

A number of press outlets have been invited to visit the DC Entertainment offices in New York and Los Angeles to inspect material pertaining to Before Watchmen, DC Comics' controversial expansion of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' hugely popular and influential superhero graphic novel...

It's been ten years since Dan DiDio first walked into DC Comics as a Vice President of Editorial, beginning a chain of events that led to the native New Yorker ascending to the position of Co-Publisher of the storied comic book house. Among the notable events DiDio's presided over in his time with DC include its ambitious run of weekly comic book series; the reinstallation of long-absent character

"Completely shameless" is what comics writer Alan Moore had to say about DC Comics' announcement of Before Watchmen, an ambitious programme of prequel miniseries based on Moore and Dave Gibbons' hugely popular and influential graphic novel, Watchmen...

Compounding many longtime DC Comics fans' confusion with respect to the revised histories of the publisher's superhero characters, Co-Publisher Dan DiDio confirmed that tent-pole storylines Crisis On Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis and all such universe defining Crises did not occur in DC's New 52 universe...

With DC Comics' line-wide relaunch kicking off next week, the industry has been holding its collective breath wondering whether the publisher's gambit will be rewarded with sales proportional to the event's robust marketing efforts. According to Hero Complex, DC's strategy seems to be paying off -- at least superficially -- as the publisher reports Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's Justice League #1 has a

A few days ago, I wrote an editorial about DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio's response to fan concerns about the extremely low numbers of female creators involved in the DC Comics relaunch this September -- and, to be fair, mainstream comics more generally -- and the impact that such a disproportionate gender split has both on a company's culture and creatively, particularly if it is trying to rea

Last Thursday at Comic-Con International, during the first of four New 52 panels held by DC Comics to discuss their line-wide relaunch of superhero titles this September, a fan walked up to the microphone and posed a question to Co-Publisher Dan DiDio about the demographics of the New 52 creators: "Why did you go from 12% in women to 1% on your creative teams...

DC Comics Co-Publisher and artist Jim Lee did a bit of live drawing for the crowd at the DC Comics booth during Comic-Con this weekend, including one very special sketch of Wonder Woman holding out the pants from her recent costume redesign while sporting the more traditional swimsuit cut we'll see in the DC relaunch this fall...

Guys, you might want to sit down for this one, because I have just received some huge news: Did you know that DC is relaunching their entire line with all-new #1 titles this September?! You did? Okay, well what about the shocking news that the new Justice League title will be written by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee...

Superman: Earth One, the new graphic novel written by J. Michael Straczynski and drawn by Shane Davis, reboots the classic tale of the hero from Krypton, beginning with his arrival in Metropolis as a fashionably dressed 20-year-old and the choice he must make between living a life as a talented, ordinary man or becoming a hero...