Screenshot of CBR main page from January 31, 2022 | |
Type of site | Comic book |
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Available in | English |
Headquarters | Saint-Laurent, Quebec |
Owner | Valnet Inc. |
Created by | Jonah Weiland |
URL | www |
Launched | 1995 |
Current status | Online |
Comic Book Resources, also known by the initialism CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book–related news and discussion.
Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1995 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland created to discuss DC Comics' then-new mini-series of the same name.[1][2]
Comic Book Resources features columns written by industry professionals that have included Robert Kirkman, Gail Simone, and Mark Millar.[1] Other columns are published by comic book historians and critics such as George Khoury and Timothy Callahan.[3][4]
In April 2016, Comic Book Resources was sold to Valnet Inc., a Montreal-based company based known for its acquisition and ownership of media properties including Screen Rant.[5] The site was relaunched as CBR.com on August 23, 2016, with the blogs integrated into the site.[6]
The company has also hosted a YouTube channel since 2008, with 3.97 million subscribers as of December 21, 2021.[1]
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 Comic Book Resources and its participating advertisers.[7] 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.[7]
In 2008, the University at Buffalo's research library described Comic Book Resources as "the premiere comics-related site on the Web."[19]
In April 2013, comics writer Mark Millar said he read the site every morning after reading the Financial Times.[20]
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]