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Comic Book Resources

CBR, formerly Comic Book Resources, is a news website covering movies, television, anime, video games and comic book–related news and discussion.

Formerly

Comic Book Resources (1995–2016)

English

Valnet Inc.

Jonah Weiland

1995 (1995)

Online

won CBI1 and has since worked on a number of Marvel Comics titles like Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man, Marvel Adventures: Hulk and GeNext.[16][17]

Patrick Scherberger

was the runner-up in CBI1 and went on to work for Virgin Comics (Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper and Seven Brothers), Image Comics (Pax Romana, A Red Mass for Mars and Transhuman) and Marvel Comics (Fantastic Four, Astonishing Tales).[18][19]

Jonathan Hickman

Carlos Rodríguez won CBI2 and went on to work on for Image and Batman and the Outsiders for DC Comics.[20][21]

Shadowhawk

Billy Penn also competed in CBI2 and went on to work on .[21][22]

Savage Dragon

Joe Infurnari, another CBI2 contestant, went on a couple of titles from , including Wasteland and Borrowed Time, as well as on the back-up feature of Jersey Gods with Mark Waid.[21][23]

Oni Press

writer and artist on various Doctor Who comics for Panini and IDW and Jersey Gods for Image Comics, as well as strips for DC Comics, competed in CBI3.[24]

Dan McDaid

Nick Pitarra competed in CBI3 and went on to do work for Marvel Comics on books such as Astonishing Tales.

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Charles Paul Wilson III, artist on , competed in CBI3.[26]

The Stuff of Legend

Comic Book Idol, also known as CBI, is an amateur comic-book art competition created and hosted by comics writer J. Torres, and sponsored by CBR and its participating advertisers.[15] Inspired by the singing contest American Idol, CBI is a five-week and five-round competition in which each contestant is given one week to draw a script provided by guest judges. These invited comic-book professionals comment on the artists' work in each round. The contestants to move on to subsequent rounds are selected by fans who vote in a weekly poll.[15]

Reception[edit]

In 2008, the University at Buffalo's research library described CBR as "the premiere comics-related site on the Web."[27]


In April 2013, comics writer Mark Millar said he read the site every morning after reading the Financial Times.[28]


In 2014, an article by guest author Janelle Asselin criticized the cover of DC Comics's Teen Titans,[29] leading to harassment of and personal threats against Asselin in the website's community forums. Weiland issued a statement apologizing for the incident, condemning the way some community members had reacted, and rebooted the forums in order to establish new ground rules.[30][31]


Heidi MacDonald, for The Beat in June 2023, commented that after CBR was purchased by Valnet in 2016 it "gradually became a more generic 'content farm' turning out less and less comics content and more and more listicles and inane click-baity articles".[12]

1999, 2000, 2001: Won the "Favourite Comics-Related Website (professional)" .[1][32]

Eagle Award

2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008: Nominated for the "Favourite Comics-Related Website" Eagle Award.[33]

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2009: Won the "Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism" .[34]

Eisner Award

2010, 2011: Won the "Favourite Comics-Related Website" Eagle Award.[36]

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2011: Won the "Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism" Eisner Award.

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2013: Won the "Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation" for its Robot 6 blog.[38]

Harvey Award

2014: Won the "Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism" Eisner Award.

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2021: Nominated for "Best Comics-Related Website/Publication Tripwire Awards.

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