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
Institute Of Contemporary Arts, Home Of ComICA, In Danger Of Closure…
To the comicognosti, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, slap between Buckingham Palace and Trafalger Square, has held host to the myriad of comic book events that make up ComICA. Of course it is far more than that, a focal point for arts of all kinds in London, bringing in exhibitions and events from…
Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book Tells Schrödinger’s Cat To Make Room In The Box
It was only the other day that friend-of-Bleeding Cool, Brendon Connelly was asking what the latyest was with Neil Jordan’s movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. Well, The LA Times reports Neil Gaiman as saying that It was all put together over at Miramax Films. The people there had a long, great relationship…
Using Traditional Comic Books In Traditional Jewish Art
The modern superhero comic book has its roots in Jewish culture and artists, before being taken on by the rest of the world and transformed into a mass market entertainment medium. Well Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik is bringing it back home. He has combined comic books with the Jewish art of paper cutting to create new fusion…
Rabbi Blames Haitian Disaster On Comic Strip
It’s good to know that it’s not just American fundamentalist Christian evangelists who make the most offensive of statements about the Haitian disaster. Jewish rabbis can also have a good stab at it themselves. Rabbi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, writes on Cross Currents; Jewish religious sources maintain that catastrophes,…
“I’m Spartacus… But I Am Not A Graphic Novel!”
First it was Sherlock Holmes, described by producers and press releases alike as based on a graphic novel – that never actually existed. Now it’s turn of the new TV show Spartacus: Blood And Sand that aired on Friday on Spazz Starz in the USA. They didn’t have the courtesy to even put up some drawn pretty…
Sunday Runaround – Punking Neil Gaiman
NeilWatch: Neil Gaiman’s punk band, Chaos, from 1976. That’s Neil, second from left… DeCampiWatch: Comic book writer and Bleeding Cool columnist Alex De Campi has directed the latest video for Los Campesinos!, Romance Is Boring… LocalWatch: Shadowraith is a graphic novella in the fumetti style by Lincoln student Nicholas Dishington, shot in Lincoln and has…
Preview: Chris Morris’ Four Lions – Finding The Fun In Terrorism
The movie Four Lions premieres at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend. Forget Iron Man 2, Kick Ass and Alice In Wonderland, this is my most anticipated movie of the year. Written and directed by the incomparable Chris Morris, creator of Brass Eye and Jam, this movie is a comedy about four British jihadists planning…
Platinum Studios Gain $5,000,000 In Extra Funding
Platinum Studios are the multi-media comic book exploitation company headed up by Scott Rosenberg that just keeps on coming back. They have just secured a five million dollar funding deal with Dutchess Opportunity Fund II on the back of the upcoming Cowboys & Aliens movie to be directed by Iron Man‘s John Favreau. One aspect…
Journeyman Man To Make Brian Michael Bendis And Michael Avon Oeming’s Powers An FX TV Series?
Both Premium Hollywood and Aint It Cool has announced that creator of Journeyman, Kevin Falls, has written the pilot script to Powers, based on the Bendis/Oeming comic (though, naturally, they both forget the Oeming bit) and it is in the hands of FX executives. Michael Dinner is slated to direct the project. Powers is a…
Thunderchickens Withdrawn From Zuda “In Light Of Recent Events”
Bleeding Cool covered some of the local press that the creators of the webcomic Thunderchickens, Chad Boudreau and William Blankenship received before their entry into DC’s webcomic talent show Zuda Comics. And this month it seemed it was working for them, Thunderchickens consistently gaining the top slot. They were definitely on track to win this…
Make Money Fast (Ish) With Comics: Continued
Running the link to the 70% off Amazon.co.uk listing of the Nation X Hardcover volume in Bleeding Cool the other day seems to have pushed the book to be the bestselling graphic novel on Amazon right now. Which, despite the wording, looks to contain 8 issues of Uncanny X-Men, X-Men: The List and the Nation…
Five Seasons Of Lost In Ten Minutes, Courtesy Of The Reduced Shakespeare Company
As the US and the UK await the sixth final series of Lost, the Reduced Shakespeare Company, famous for their Complete Works Of Shakespeare, performed in one hour, are doing their own version. Along with UK broadcaster Sky, The Reduced Shakespeare Company has condensed the first five series of the show into a ten minute…
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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…
