Fionnuala Doran began her career as a Ninja Turtles fan, but has just published a graphic novel on Roger Casement, writes Don O’Mahony

Crime — of the fictional variety — seems to be paying off for Ireland’s best-selling children’s author Eoin Colfer, with accumulated profits at his company topping €3m last year.

Tony stark is to be replaced by a 15-year-old Black Girl in a new Iron Man comic coming later this year this year.

The man who draws SpiderMan for Marvel Comics spun a web of white lies over the weekend to propose to his girlfriend as only he could.

Stan Lee thinks the world "has a place for gay superheroes" - but that classic heroes should not be dramatically changed.

AS THE voice of Iron Man’s computer programme, Jarvis, actor Paul Bettany has spent a lot time hidden away in a sound booth, only meeting his Marvel Comics co-stars on the red carpet. For the new Avengers: Age Of Ultron movie, however, he finally made it onto set.

Her ‘House of Cards’ character gets to the top of the pile by ruthless ambition, but Robin Wright is more laid back and relaxed about her career, Ed Power discovers.

An 11-year-old girl's letter to DC Comics has gone viral with many praising her articulate plea for more diversity in comic books.

An 11-year-old girl’s letter to DC Comics has gone viral with many praising her articulate plea for more diversity in comic books.

It’s ladies to the fore as the 2014 Cork Person of the Year will be announced this week.

Baz Ashmawy tells Ed Power about ignoring the media attention and critics’ negativity

Hulkbuster armour is all my inner ten-year-old wanted.

It was a tough summer for music promoter Peter Aiken who was at the centre of the Garth Brooks concert fiasco.

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A graphic artist best-known for his work on Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man has drawn inspiration from chat-show host Graham Norton’s famous ‘red chair’ scenario to immortalise legendary Corkonians in a large city centre mural.

A group of Cork-based comic book artists have released their first anthology in the midst of what is being describd as a new golden age of comics, writes Don O’Mahony.

Tune in to UTV at 8pm tonight for a new six-part series featuring Warwick Davis and his family as they travel around the UK in their trusty camper van.

House of Cards has revived Robin Wright’s acting career, says Ed Power

WILL SLINEY is an illustrator with Marvel Comics. It’s his dream job.

Here’s our quick guide to what to see if you fancy a trip to the cinema this weekend.

The '30 Rock' actor has been approached by MSNBC to present a weekly programme, which “will feature a large dose of Baldwin’s outspoken liberal politics” airing on Friday nights, according to Mediate.

Hugh Jackman owes a great deal of his enduring popularity to the muscular swagger and trademark sideburns of Wolverine.

Alec Baldwin turned down a role in a Marvel movie.

An Irish comic book artist is about to hit the big time with Marvel Comics.

The excitement levels of sci-fi fans have been blasted into orbit after filmmakers announced that three new Stars Wars movies are to hit the big screen.

Former Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston, is to star in 'Thor: The Dark World'.

Every great story has a beginning.

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'Thor 2' is to feature a "major, major new antagonist".

More is less in 'Avengers Assemble', the special effects-laden amalgamation of four Marvel Comics franchises.

It says something when the most bizarre GAA story of the week was neither the stream of oddities from Waterford, nor the confrontation involving Anthony Daly and a patron at the end of Kilkenny-Dublin last Sunday (you have to love the term ‘confrontation’ there, suggesting as it does a face-off between two Marvel Comics superheroes.

Depending on your point of view, it is either a well-meaning attempt to encourage computer game addicts to exercise outdoors, or a hard-nosed business plan intended to make a multi-million euro company even richer.

THE superhero grows a little less super with each successive offering from the Marvel Comics canon.

Superhero origin stories have been all the rage at the multiplex this summer, with Marvel Comics alone accounting for two such films, ‘Thor’ and ‘X-Men: First Class’, both of which happily surpassed critics' expectations.

Much as I enjoyed 'X-Men: First Class', Fox's exuberant prequel/reboot (preboot?) of the fabled Marvel Comics series, I was a bit disoriented by its opening sequence.

WITHIN hours of the recent death of Osama bin Laden, Photoshopped copies of the iconic ‘situation room’ image were posted on the internet.

A new look and a new suit are in store for Ultimate Spider Man, but the fate of Peter Parker - the awkward teenager who catches thieves like flies - is still a mystery.

Andrew Garfield has been cast as Peter Parker, the average youth who transforms into a superhero, in the next 'Spider-Man' film, distributor Sony Pictures announced.

Jon Favreau has confirmed there will be a third 'Iron Man' film.

Samuel L Jackson may not be taking a starring role in the 'Iron man' sequel after all.

HE’S become the poster boy of hope — on the cover of every conceivable publication from Newsweek to Hello.

US President-elect Barack Obama is to be honoured in the pages of the latest Spider-man comic.

Following his exposure to gamma radiation and physical transformation, Bruce Banner hides in Brazil, hoping to evade General Thaddeus ’Thunderbolt’ Ross and the military.