Michael May officially announced yesterday that Comic World News is closing down:

Word’s already gotten out and that’s okay, because honestly I meant to announce this earlier. Comic World News is closing down.

I held off for a couple of reasons, but the biggest one is the same reason I waited far longer than I should have to turn in my resignation as Editor in Chief of the place. I love this site and it’s hard to let it go.

When I stepped into the EiC role a few years ago, I had big plans for CWN and I’m pleased that a lot of them came to fruition. We’ve had some killer columnists over the years and we were able to provide front page coverage for some worthy comics that get lost on the larger sites. And though I don’t think we were afraid to say when something displeased us in the comics world, we mostly tried to focus on stuff we liked.

The site ends with a bang, as regular contributors David Welsh, Jennifer de Guzman and Benjamin Birdie have all posted new columns this week. Go check’em out.

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