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With 80% of 36 leading companies agree that "comics are extremely effective public relations and marketing tools" and 90% of "our children" being regular comic book readers, can it be any wonder that the American comic book business is booming like never before...

With this year's pleasant weather increasingly in the rearview, Nike has tapped comic talents Amanda Conner (Power Girl) and Jan Duursema (Star Wars) to illustrate the benefits of its Women's Training Holiday 2011 collection. The overall message of the line's associated "Make Yourself: a superpower" campaign is to empower women to work out in seemingly element-impervious Nike products ev

Ah, Facebook. Whether you're destroying the economy by spending your work hours clicking on a virtual farm where the harvest is your personal information or finding out which of your childhood friends now has the most insane political views, it's become an indispensible resource for millions of people all over the world...

The "Got Milk?" ads have been one of the most successful and enduring marketing campaigns of the last two decades, ever since that first commercial about a peanut butter-loving amateur historian aired in 1993, as directed -- no joke -- by Michael Bay...

Music: Tickets are now on sale for KRACKLEFEST, featuring Kirby Krackle, Adam WarRock and H2Awesome! at Seattle's Hard Rock Cafe on March 5. Webcomics: Ben Towle has begun posting pages from his upcoming graphic novel Oyster War on a designated Tumblr...

The ads sprinkled through comic books have slowly evolved through the years, as comics moved from mainstream entertainment to collector's items, the comic book audience aged, and the internet became the number one repository of obvious scams, semi-obvious scams, and products that weren't scams but also weren't anything that people would buy ...

Mark Millar faced some blogosphere scrutiny early this morning when it was revealed that an image he'd posted on his Millarworld blog of a billboard in New York City's Times Square promoting he and Steve McNiven's "Nemesis" launch was nothing more than a Photoshopped hoax...

It seems like something straight out of 2003's "JLA/Avengers" or 1996's Amalgam Universe: DC Comics characters like Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Batman and Superman gliding across a screen inches away from graphics of Marvel's mightiest heroes...