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,…
ScreamWatch: IDW are publishing a comic book sequel to Paranomal Activity, appearing in digital form only. ListWatch: Blimey, now the free Metro newspaper is getting into promoting graphic novels gift lists – naming Genesis, Grandville, Dark Entries, Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness and Salem Brownstone: All Along The Watchtowers. WarrenWatch: Warren Ellis points out…
Okay, it’s not actually Time Magazine. It’s their spinoff website Techland.com. And it’s not even the whole of Techland.com, it’s one blogger, Mike Williams. But still, it’s enough for Time Magazine staff to send out press releases and splash it all over their website front page. That list in full: 1. The Ultimates 2. 100…
I guess Scott Kurtz made an impression on one of the industry giants he lampooned at this year’s Harvey Awards. Turns out after the show in which Scott skewered the work of Neal Adams on stage discovered that Adams has a granddaughter that’s a huge fan of Kurtz’ PvP strip. So both Adams’ granddaughter and…
Sometime yesterday, Paul Jenkins’ e-mail got hacked by something. And sent out a message “Have a great day!” to his e-mail contact list, all on the cc. And since I’d been chatted to him sometime in the last six months, I got the message too. And then everyone started replying. Mike Malve: Is this like…
There we are, Terry Gilliam and Lily Cole promoting the movie The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus, being released in the USA on Christmas Day. A photo that will naturally be reproduced in newspapers across the world. Job done, well done people, that’s how you get coverage. PR 101. And then you get this. Which, yes,…
BorderWatch: French artist Peggy Adam’s graphic novella Luchadoras, of Female Fighters, draws attention to the hundreds of women who have been tortured, raped, kidnapped and murdered in Mexican border city, Ciudad Juarez. According to the Mexican National Human Rights Commission, more than 500 women have been killed in Ciudad Juarez since 1993, with almost all…
This is both a surprising and positive development. I recently posted about Dynamite Entertainment’s acquisition of various Dabel Bros titles. That they’ve committed to managing the publication of future works, retaining the Dabel brothers to put together the kind of deals that has garnered them attention in the past. But the stench of debt to…
The DCU blog The Source posted some pages from Adventure Comics #5 last night. Including this one; Which suddenly makes a post from a few weeks ago a lot clearer, with these photos… remember to buy your copy and play match the pose!
Thanks to the Misfits guys for giving Bleeding Cool an exclusive clip of the cast discussing superpowers… and if the ability to sing counts. And the longer discussion in full… The penultimate episode of Misfits airs Thursday night at 10pm on E4. Yes it’s brilliant. Yes I’ll be watching. And the superb time-travel episode repeats…
The world’s biggest comics convention now in it’s 37th year, the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France, has just unveiled its “Selection” list for the 2010 event – basically the best graphic novels published over the last year according to an organising panel. Fifty-eight of them. L’Affaire Des Affaires Vol 1 by Laurent Astier et Yan…
It’s the way modern society chooses to celebrate people, it seems. A Google Doodle on the Google homepage today, to celebrate Popeye creator E.C. Segar’s birthday, one hundred and fifteen years ago today. And seventy-one years after his death. The Guardian do a nice big splash on it here. Well, whaddya know…
Back in February, I reported on Bob Schreck’s dismissal at DC Comics; DiDio stated that he wanted to do his own continuity-free line “All Star”-like line in conflict with Bob’s books from Grant Morrison and Frank Miller. Well, with the Batman Earth One and Superman Earth One series of original graphic novels, it looks like…
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…
