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,…
Ah yes, Lady Death. Epitome of nineties Bad Girl comics, at her peak (either of them I suppose), her book sold six figures for Chaos Comics and she became a poster girl (literally) for all theat was bad, and profitable, for comics. Today, William Christensen, publisher of Bleeding Cool’s owner Avatar Press, is launching a…
That Steve Bissette is creating a sequel project to Image’s 1963 series should be news. That it’s a result of the failure to reprint the 1963 series and complete it, after a year long process that saw Alan Moore first request that his name not be on it (necessitating the removal of the Affable Al…
From those nice people at Bluewater, the Margaret Thatcher biographical comic book coming out in July. Bluewater have made their name with all sorts of polictical biographical comics of late, from Barack Obama to Ronald Reagan, befire expanding into other celebrities such as Michael Jackson, David Becklham and Lady Gaga. Lady Thatcher is the next…
These stills are from the new VMAN Magazine “photoshoot” of Shrek characters to promote the upcoming movie. I understand that approval procedures originally agreed upon with Dreamworks weren’t exactly carried through as expected. And that basically VMan just did whatever the hell they liked with the files they were given. And some Dreamworks people are…
Novelist Charlie Huston attended a book signing yesterday at a bar in Stockholm, promoting the Swedish editions of his Joe Pitt novels. During the signing one Swedish Little Bleeder asked Charlie about his upcoming Marvel work. As well as his Deathlok miniseries, Bullseye mini and Punisher oneshot, he told the assembled crowd that he’d be…
This is the cover to the upcoming Dodgem Logic #3, drawn and painted by Alan Moore. This magazine, featuring Alan’s musings on Northampton and stuff and related friends now includes Robin Ince, who’s atheist Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People was such a hit, and his recent collaboration School For Gifted Children Holiday Special…
Got to say I never thought Roger Ebert and the Daily Mail would be on the same page about anything. Famed longstanding American film reviewer Roger Ebert just gave his review of Kick Ass, in which he launches a strong attack on the movie adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr’s comic book. And…
As we speak, sweaty men are putting together the largest comic convention Chicago has ever seen. With Marvel planning to announce even more projects than Bleeding Cool has leaked, and DC Comics seeing if they can still get away with not announcing things at conventions, and likes of Avatar and Dynamite sitting on stories that…
Private Eye is one of my main inspirations for the work I’ve done on Lying In The Gutters and Bleeding Cool. A fortnightly British magazine, it’s a politically satirical publication that mixes Onion-style articles with real investigative reporting and dealing with rumours circling around politics and media. And they’ve landed a doozy with a Doctor…
This recently twittered photo of Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood, as well as tapping into their vain cultured dress sense, looks remarkably ike it was taken on the Sherlock Holmes set of the London Film Museum. And people aren’t allowed to just go and have photos taken there – unless there’s a Sherlock Holmes-based reason….
Oh yeah, no one’s actually set up yet. But still. First photos! Woo!!! And that’s where the Avatar booth is going to be. You know, for one reason or another I understand that will be quite the hot spot for tomorrow…
It was going to be a big Joe Quesada announcement at C2E2 on Saturday. But it got leaked early. As rumoured earlier today, One Moment In Time by Joe Quesada and Paolo Rivera, starting in Amazing Spider-Man #638.
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…
