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,…
I first met Alan Moore on the occasion of his 40th birthday. He was performing Birth Caul: A Shamanism Of Childhood in Newcastle, he’s just decided to become a magician and we ended up in the same pub afterwards. I asked him if I could publish his Twilight Of The Superheroes pitch with the copyright…
This is Hitman Monkey, a new Marvel character created by Daniel Way. He’ll be appearing in Deadpool then his own Marvel Digital comic. And this is Rei Macaco (King Monkey) from Hector Lima and Wilson Jr’s Zuda pitch of the same name. Which, although mentioned here, this image has never appeared online until after the…
You can’t order this through Diamond anymore. But Dave’s Sim trawl through his pre-Cerebus career will illustrations, documents and letters to and from the great and the good is a very personal journey. And no mention at all of anything relating to Cerebus #186 yet, that was far far far far in the future. If…
January 1992 Chicago Sun-Times: The comic book, long a purveyor of childhood fantasies, has taken a step closer to the adult world as one prominent “superhero” acknowledges he is gay. The superhero is Northstar, billed in Marvel Comics’ “Alpha Flight” as “Canada’s Most Eligible Bachelor,” and he comes out of the closet in the current…
In comics-to-movie adaptation news, Variety promises that Platinum’s Nightfall is on the way, and Antonine Fuqua and Spike Lee are adapting the French graphic novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime from Les Humanoides. — Comics creator Woodrow Phoenix gets a massive spike from Express Buzz, as part of his big trip to India (see, not…
Dave Sim’s Glamourpuss is one of my favourite regular comics. A grand departure from Cerebus, it’s a strange brew of the history of inking and photorealism styles in comics through the twentieth century, with Dave Sim first reproducing the pages in question, then taking those relearned skills to reproduce fashion magazine images, upon which he…
Last night, after arranging some last minute childcare, I went to the Institute of Contemporary Arts just up the road from Buckingham Palace, to chair a discussion on superhero comics – and what happens next, with three of the guys from Transmission X, a collection of original webcomics by comics professionals. Cameron Stewart, Karl Keschl…
USA Today has been running oddles of articles on the upcoming Image United crossover title with the current Image partners jamming together… here are a few examples… Erik Larsen The way people draw — sizing and height and length — is pretty different. It’s the whole puzzle-piece thing; trying to fill in the blanks in…
Don’t you hate waiting for solicitations? Marvel has given the X-Men solicitations to ComicBookResources and bunch of others to Newsarama but they’re making you wait until 9 am PST for the rest. It’s just not fair is it? Well, Bleeding Cool hates you to wait. Those Marvel February singles solicitations in full… including books like…
Not even Volstagg for Brian Blessed? The poor man must be crying into his beard. — It should be a rule. Don’t do Hawkman on the TV. It looks like bad cosplay. Even when Brian Blessed did it. Think about it, sure. Take meetings. Have a bunch of Smallville writers sit around and pitch treatments…
Joss Whedon has already seen one of his comics, Astonishing X-Men, transformed into a successful motion comic, an animation that uses the elements of a published comic and moves them about a bit, a kind of half way house between a cartoon and a comic, and often satisfying neither parties. Nevertheless, a number have been…
Martin Eden claims to have the first all-gay superhero team, in a new comic called Spandex. It features the likes of Liberty (glamorous transvestite superhero), Diva (a lesbian Wonder Woman), Prowler (absorbs the abilities of gay people), Glitter (male Dazzler), Indigo (beautiful French teleporter), and Mr Muscles & Butch (strong twins). And every issue, you…
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…
