Well I must have done something right. Cryptozoic sent me the Locke & Key card game today. And I opened it. And filmed myself doing it too. Welcome to the new Locke & Key unboxing event…
Why The Hell Isn’t There A My Little Pony Comic Book?
Aaron and Mike of A Comic Show want to help fix what’s wrong with the comics industry, they swear they’ll start a regular bombastic op/ed column here on Bleeding Cool. But first, they feel they must follow their hearts (hooves), and use their connections to get a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic made!…
Jim Lee’s Hidden Tribute To Carla
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…
The First Page Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Revealed At Angoulême
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…
Monthly Archives: January 2010
“I Used To Make Little Legion Figures Out Of Paper Dolls” – Paul Levitz Does Love His Legion
Paul Levitz used the DC Source blog and io9 to announce and talk about his new Legion Of Superheroes series, with Turkish artist Yildiray Cinar as well as taking over Adventure Comics. And I’m lost. I’m sorry, I never ever got into Legion. I’ve tried several times and failed. Possibly not being able to read…
Swipe File: The Book Of Eli and The Book Of Jesse
One is a multi-million dollar movie starring Denzil Washington for 2010, written by a comics writer, using comic book imagery and artists such as Chris Weston and Tommy Lee Edwards. The other is a web comic (initially), published in print through Lulu and available in big name comic shops since 2005. It may be a…
Stephen King’s American Vampire #2: The Cover
Artist Rafael Albuquerque runs through the creative process behind the cover to Vertigo’s American Vampire written by Scott Snyder and Stephen King. And then reveals the finished version… Am I the only one who can hear him saying “Hyuk! Hyuk!” in that get up?
Rich Johnston To Enter Zenescope’s Girl Of The Month 2010
By which I mean the competition, obviously. Please. I received a press release from Zenescope’s Raven Gregory this morning. Announcing Zenescope Girl of the Month for 2010 to follow on from their successful and innovatively titled Zenescope Girl of the Month for 2009. What a difference a year makes. The release stated that Zenescope was…
San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum Launches Samurai Manga Exhibition
This Saturday sees Drawing the Sword: Samurai in Manga and Anime open at the San Francisco Art Museum until May 2nd, curated by Julian Bermudez. The exhibition begins with the woodblock prints that formed the beginning of Japanese manga and anime through to the present day, with artwork, animation cels, models and toys, including a…
Kids, Can You Spare $3.99? (UPDATED)
After the Final Issues of the Marvel Adventures titles were solicited, Marvel have announced the relaunch, like Ultimate Comics, just moving the words around, for Spider-Man #1 and Super-Heroes #1. New issue ones for the series aimed at the younger Marvel reader, but the big change is the price. Up from $2.99 to $3.99, not…
Thursday Runaround – I’d Buy Those For A Dollar
ImageWatch: Image are putting out $1 First issues of popular comics in their line in time for FCBD, including The Walking Dead, Spawn, Chew, Invincible, Age Of Bronze, Youngblood, Savage Dragon, Witchblade, Girls and Proof, in a manner similar to DC’s recent $1 reprint line. FilmWatch: As Top Shelf get an 33% investment for John…
Marvel Targets Blackest Night Overorders With Deadpool Promotion
Okay, looks like printing those Brown Deadpool rings that was once suggested as a fun response to DC’s Blackest Night promotion got too pricey for Marvel. The moulds, the fittings, the shipping from China, all that adds up. So why not come up with a much cheaper solution? In an effort to provide assistance to…
Chris Ryall Takes On Buffy Gate – Bill Willingham, Joss Whedon And Canon…
Chris Ryall is the publisher/editor-in-chief at IDW Publishing. He’s the man who edits the Angel series, currently written by Bill Willingham. And boy has the last week been busy. He’s just finished a question-and-answer session at Whedonesque, the Joss Whedon fansite. Here are a few highlights. As everyone saw earlier this week (depending on when…
Arthur Ranson Exhibition At Orbital Comics, London
From tomorrow, Orbital Comics in London, just off Leicester Square, is hosting an exhibition of the work of Arthur Ranson. An early photorealist artist in British comics, his work on the TV tie-in comic Look In is damous, particularly Sapphire And Steel but also Worzel Gummidge, Danger Mouse, The Bionic Woman and The A-Team. But…
Diamond Retail Events And Wizard Comic Cons – Back Together
With Diamond Comic Distributors choosing C2E2 and NYCC for trade-only retailer-based events, some industry observers (including me) had presumed that Diamond had made its choice, preferring Reed events over Wizard Comic Con events and that was the end of that. It appears I was wrong. It looks like Diamond is back in bed with Wizard,…
Will There Be Rainbows And Unicorns In Gail Simone’s Birds Of Prey?
I really hope I’m not reading too much into the Brightest Day banner. I mean no one, not anyone in any of the exclusive interviews that DC’s marketing department have been arranging with Newsarama, IGN and Comics Alliance (CBR and MTV Splashpage to follow, I expect) have actally asked the question, what does Brightest Day…
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New Sherlock Viral? Or Something Geekier?
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…
Frank Miller Redraws The Dark Knight
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…
The Amazing Spider-Man Is Tidied Up A Little By An Official Blurb
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…
Joe Madureira Wants To Draw A Zelda Comic Series
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…
The Robins – A New Comic From Jeff Lemire?
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…
Warner Bros. Nix ElfQuest Movie, Pin Blame On The Hobbit
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…
