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,…
Bleeding Cool broke the Vertigo advertising on BBC America story two days ago. And the ad went to air later that night. Okay. Time for me to be an expert. Because advertising is what I do (freelancing at Capital on Leicester Square later today, yay!) Yes, it’s great that Vertigo are advertising on BBC America….
Cages is one of my favourite graphic novels of all time, up with From Hell, Longshot Comics, Cowboy Wally Show and Jimmy Corrigan. And now Dave McKean is going to destroy it all and make a film. He tweets; Great first meeting about Cages film; a long term possibility, but good to know all interested…
That’s the word, it’s the word that you heard. Longbox, the comic book digital distribution system to be embedded in the much rumoured upcoming Apple Tablet e-reader, using iTunes as a distribution model, in the new year. A journalist we’ve profiled before, Andy Ihnatko has been talking Longbox for some time and recently pointed the…
It’s true to say that Stephen has let his brother have the share of the limelight in at Wizard. But last weekend, on stage at the Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con, it was Gareb Shamus was the shy and retiring one. And it was Stephen Shamus who stepped up to the stage with a…
Taken by Doctor Who fan Scooty and posted to the Gallifrey Forums… a sneak peek at the backdrop inside the TARDIS prop on set which should give an indication for the new set, that’s been rumoured since… well… Is that a staircase?
One publisher. One country. Two events. This weekend in London, it’s the MCM London Expo. The film-TV-media show that transformed into the UK’s biggest comics convention by discovering that the UK had a massive manga reading crowd – and that most of them were female. And once 30,000 people descended upon the London’s East End…
Wolfskin is the fantasy fusion saga written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Juan Jose Ryp, the creators of the recent smash No Hero. Juan’s style, reminiscent of Geoff Darrow, is no longer obsesses by the details of brick and stone, but here it is tree and branch and leaf that suck the think lines…
This Sunday, Excalibur Comics in SE Portland will host Wonder Woman Day, officially declared on the city calendar by its mayor. Simultaneously, Comic Fusion in Flemington, New Jersey will be celebrating the same. The Portland show will have a stack of notable comics artists and writers, including Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez, Paul Gulacy, Gail Simone…
Sampling of comics is a publishing trick that many people have used over the years. Creating anthologies to display a publisher’s wares hoping that readers will respond to a certain snippet and track down the full monty. The Grassroots Anthology is an online version of the same, organised by Brendan McGinley, collecting examples of some…
Norman Osborn and Harry Osborn’s hair has been a mystery, since Steve Ditko drew a few wiggly lines. In today’s more photo-realistic styles, it has taken on some very strange shapes indeed with people asking just how can such a hairstyle exist. Well, this is how… John Oxendine there, ladies and gentelemen, Republican candidate running…
Shoes dropping all over the place. This time they’re made of turtle leather. Nickelodeon, part of MTV, part of Viacom paid Mirage Studios and 4Kids Networks around $60 million – of which $10 million was to 4Kids to terminate its rights in the property before it would naturally expire in 2012. They may also be…
Denny O’Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor. He’s best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman, through the seventies, Spider-Man in the eighties and for editing Batman-related titles in the nineties. A widely published novelist and screenwriter, he is currently lecturing at the NYU on…
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…
