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,…
As previously teased by Bleeding Cool then named by one of our commentators, the Graphic Content blog from Vertigo confirmed the new Chris Robberson/Mike Allred series as “I, Zombie” Which is all very fine. As the blog says “It’s the story of Gwendolyn “Gwen” Dylan, zombie girl detective. Think graveyards, ghosts, vampires and werewolves with…
Recently Tyrese Gibson twittered Got a dinner with Grant Morrison coming this week..!! Comic book legend! Research is everything people!! I wanna know all about this world! Well now Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails fame) just tweeted that he Just had another interesting and enlightening conversation with Grant and Kristan Morrison. Repercussions to follow….
Picture the scene. It’s Saturday evening at the San Diego Comic Con. Two attendees have had a heady day running around a square mile of comics, toys, statues, games, cosplay and whatnot. Going to panels with the likes of Zachari Levi, Rebecca Romijn, Terry Moore, Joe Quesada, Seth MacFarlane, Geoff Johns, Alison Sohn and Sheldon…
Cinebook recently bought the English-speaking licence to the Spirou & Fantasio line of Franco-Belgian bound comics. Running since 1938, the title has had a number of writers and artists, instead of the singular visions more common in works such as Tintin and Asterix, but is a very similar and successful book, following the fantasy adventures…
Hart D Fisher is a name known by many in comics. Author and publisher of a series of horror comics, including the comic biography of Jeffrey Dahmer, Hart once faked his death for a month, discovered Gerard Way and John Cassaday, produced horror TV shows and movies, wore a T-shirt reading Marvel Can Suck My…
It’s a day of casting – Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Gary Oldman and Ian McShane are to star in Pretty, Baby, Machine adapted from the 2008 gangster comic book from Image Comics by Clark Westerman and Kody Chamberlain. The four play playing Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Machine Gun Kelly and the common…
There are three basic ways to make a variant cover with big appeal, and a promotional pricetag to boot. 1) Have a strong character fanbase. Spawn may not sell bucketloads anymore, but it has a dedicated fanbase, many of whom want every issue including the variants and are willing to pay for them. 2) Have…
007 A section from a list of comics creators’ three favourite records, because we don’t know what Philippe Druillet’s favourite records are: “Thriller” – Michael Jackson “Bitches Brew” – Miles Davis “Mishima” soundtrack – Philip Glass –Dash Shaw (BodyWorld, The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D., Bottomless Belly Button) “Unplugged” – Nirvana “Celebrity Skin”…
Hee hee! Shamone! Michael Jackson is to have his life told in manga, by Brazilian artists Fabio Shin and Rafael Kirscher and written by Ledo Viera, the colume will be published by Brazilian publisher Seoman next year. The creators say the book will explore “his dreams and nightmares, his inner conflicts and his own fantasies.”…
So I get an email from IDW saying that they will be launching Yoe! Books, a new imprint of books by Craig Yoe, the author of Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Schuster. And the first book from the imprint will be The Art of Ditko, coming this autumn. No sooner have…
Do you mind making money from the suffering of others? I only mention this because I understand that the orders on the upcoming Hero Initiative Comic are lower than expected. And it looks like there may be quite a bit of media coverage coming up. And a bit convention of sorts, I dunno. With alternate…
Comic legend John Ostrander has suffered from glaucoma for over twenty years. Recently he had a series of operations to save his remaining eyesight, and while there is currently every reason to be optimistic, the procedures were rather expensive, necessitated travel and lodgings, and only a small proportion of the final bill was covered by…
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…
