Awwwww… Jim Lee finished the most recent issue of Justice League #5 just before his new child was born, and while his wife Carla was rather heavily pregnant. He’s written that the new arrival held out until he’d finished his deadline, which was appreciated by all, I’m sure. But what tribute could Jim Lee make…
We know from the publicity that DC Vertigo are publishing graphic novel adaptaions of the Millenium Trilogy, with Denise Mina and Leonardo Manco adapting the first book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo into two parts. And in April they’ll be publishing a free teaser of the first graphic novel. But Bleeding Cool (alone it…
Recently, Bleeding Cool ran an article on how Marvel were looking to get certain creators out of their exclusive deals with Marvel, in an attempt to save money. And how Ariel Olivetti may have been a good example, locked into a two year excluisve deal with Marvel but suddenly appearing on the rejigged Men Of…
Toy News International ran these scans of images of DC toys and statues for 2012. But did they miss the headline story? Or is it a case of one side of DC not knowing what the other is doing? Because in May 2012, as part of the New 52 Cover Girls Of The DC Universe,…
Slashfilm had it first before it came down. But the internet is a wonderful thing. The trailer to Kate Beckinsale and Gabriel Macht movie, Whiteout, based on the Greg Rucka/Steve Lieber Antarctic thriller comic book from Oni. For now at least…
Persepolis is not only a best selling graphic novel about a young woman growing up in a changing Iran, but was made into an Oscar-nominated feature film, co-directed by the author and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. Yesterday, amidst the current chaos surrounding the Iranian election results, Satrapi stood alonside Mohsen Makhmalbaf, filmmaker and spokesman for opposition…
Comic book conman Josh Hoopes is STILL sending out e-mails purporting to be from Art Adams. Here’s the latest one, with a new Wizard-related twist: Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:41:07 -0700 From: adamsarthur@rocketmail.com Subject: limited time commissions To: Hey there up and comers and Indy publishers……… I know you guys…
This is not an Obama situation, where copies of that Amazing Spider-Man issue were going for $200 a week after shipping. But it seems a day or two after the original announcement (and BleedingCool’s first review of the comic) that a few people have got interested. Like the BBC, MTV, CNN. New York Times, Washington…
On July 8th, DC Comics’ Wednesday Comics hits the stands. A massively oversized comic, folded over twice to fit in a traditional comic stand, Wednesday Comics features 16 stories, one page each, running over twelve weeks, written and drawn by some of the finest comic book creators, including Neil Gaiman, Mike Allred, Kyle Baker, Paul…
Earlier today, comics writer Dwight MacPherson received a letter from Jim Valentino, jimvalentino25@yahoo.com: Dwight, It’s been a long time and I hope all is well with you and your boys. Kris Simon has resigned from her editorial position and will leave after the 29th of this month. I couldn’t think of anyone better than you…
Image Comics sent out a very entertaining press release today. In the wake of Marvel’s decision to restrict solicitation information for comic books in order to maximise media coverage of the comic, Robert Kirkman has done something similar for upcoming comic Invincible #63. The release is headed “NEW ISSUE OF INVINCIBLE TO BE SUPER POPULAR…
I really like Phonogram. It’s one of those comics you like, that’s like no other and that you don’t really expect anyone else to like apart from you and are suddenly surprised to find out how manyother people like it as well and before you know it, Edgar Wright Jr is making a movie of…
The Human Target is a television series based on the DC Comic series, in which Christopher Chance impersonates people being targeted, or under threat. The pilot script for the now-picked-up TV series replicates that exactly, apart from the whole impersonation thing. Shame, there could have been scope for all sorts of cameo “lead roles”, with…
003 So perhaps I encode Philippe Druillet into the robotic head of Jack Kirby that sits on my desk and gobs bits of tobacco leaf at me, too, because Druillet is Jack Kirby from the future. Or a future, a weird mirrored alternate future where Kirby became fully a part of the cultural conversation. The…
Bob Greenberger was a senior editor, working for DC Comics’ Collected Edition department. At the beginning of 2006, Bob was reportedly let go over an error with the Golden Age Hawkman Archive. There was much renting of cloth at the time from some appreciative archive collectors. But while Bob has worked for DC’s Licensed Publishing…
Below you’ll see a photo of a poster, hanging on a bus shelter. It was taken by Little Bleeder Ian, who wondered: I don’t know if this is genuine viral marketing or just a bunch of students. You can see a #believeinsherlock hashtag on the bottom right hand corner. I went to Twitter and searched…
The above is a commission by Frank Miller, recreating the splash page from The Dark Knight, below, for one Felix Lu. Such a detailed commission from Miller, it would be quite a rarity these days and rather expensive. Albeit not quite as expensive as buying the original art, recently selling for almost half a million…
Here’s an orderly and dependable plot blurb for The Amazing Spider-Man, as issued by Sony and piling up across the net (and in my inbox) like wildfire right now. There may not be any bombshells in here, but the strands come together pretty clearly. You know – like a web. The Amazing Spider-Man is the…
The last time I remember reading a Legend Of Zelda comic was back in the nineties, from Valiant Comics before they decided to move into superheroes. There’s were also a few manga books tied into specific game releases but no US licenced comics for quite some time. This could change if Joe Madueira gets his…
He’s done gangbusters for DC Comics, taking C-list character Animal Man, whose return to the DC Universe from DC Vertigo had been lacklustre at best, and turned him into a surprise critical and commercial hit as part of the DC New 52. So it’s only natural that DC might tap him for any other bright…
I would assume that the success of The Lord of the Rings and the huge interest in The Hobbit, not to mention the extraordinary, eight-film success of the Harry Potter series, would encourage Warner Bros. to look seriously into all of their similar options, but the studio has not to move ahead with a long-developing…
