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,…
All their titles listed with Diamond Comics Distributors had been cancelled. Their web site had vanished in the last few days. It appeared to some that the publisher that specialised in reprinting classic comics, often lost runs, was itself lost to us. With books such as the Gold Key Star Trek, the CrossGen volumes ,…
In this column: our shambolic and ongoing launch, Paypal worries, and the possibility of a print-on-demand collection of Valentine Episodes 01-06. We launched last week; it went… OK. Main drama was that I didn’t get the ePub formatting done, or indeed the e-Commerce set up to sell them on the website. Secondary drama is that…
Fresh from Neal Adams’ site, comes this little preview. A cover from an upcoming First Wave book from DC featuring The Spirit, Doc Savage and Batman… You can just smell the testosterone can’t you? Talking of which, here’s Scott Kurtz inking NEal Adams.
Two months ago, I wrote about artist Cesar Feliciano, and his very sick daughter Alana, and asked for your help. I’m sad to say that Alana passed away this weekend. If you know Cesar, I know he’d appreciate your support. — ArmyWatch: Marvel will give away a thousand free one-year subscriptions to its digital comics…
(UPDATE: Hello Farkers, feel free to browse the site, lots of fun stuff…) Japanese manga artist Ryusuke Hamamoto is creating an Alan Moore dojinshi, or fan book. Oh and a stitchpunk action figure as well… The story seems to potray a young woman at a British school, in a not-regulation-length skirt, that smells of fish…
She writes weekly for Bleeding Cool about the challenges of the digital comics industry, detailing her own attempts to create and innovate and list all the options open to her. it’s become quite the textbook. But she’s also an old friend from the pre-kids days when I’d spend every Thursday in the pub with people…
Spaced/Shaun Of The Dead/Hot Fuzz/Scott Pilgrim director Edgar Wright Jr is playing stuff on BBC Radio 6 right now (well, pre-recorded). During which we learnt that tracks on the soundtrack to Scott Pilgrim Vs the World includes Frank Black’s I Hear Ramona Sing, Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, Handsome Boy Modelling School – The Truth, as…
Drawn for Bleeding Cool. Credit: Anonymous.
The Financial Times reports that the South Korean security service is using comics to target North Korean teenagers. One publicised title, Ji-yong, sees a time-travelling teenager discovering the North Korean invasion, dictatorship and current international issues. Apparently over half of South Korean schoolchildren did not even know of the Korean War, and recent example of…
This morning, Dave Sim’s Cerebus TV, as well as featuring Sim reading extensiely from the Book Of Genesis, looks at Dave proofreading the upcoming Glamourpuss #12. Then selling the Russ Heath cover on eBay afterwards. Without, as Dave puts it, the strategically placed type removed. Dave gives a hard strong look at the cutting edge…
The story of Shellie Ross and her daughter is a tragic one, the two year old who drowned in the pool, and the mother who tweeted asking for prayer support as her child was attended to by paramedics. It’s a horrific scenario, which every distracted parent could go “there but for the grace” and the…
Today, the comics industry of Taiwan has called for more government assistance to help access the Chinese market. Of around 100 comics and animation companies in Taiwan, only a fifth have a $1,000,000 or more in terms of ready cash to make the necessary investments. They are asking for help training talent, with marketing and…
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…
