His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
Bleeding Cool’s Nev Coleman there with Julia Scheele…
Couldn’t make it to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival? Sickened by all the interesting guests they had there? Or maybe you could make it but spent all your time in the bar? Well here’s a Bleeding Cool chance to listen to the audio from the main panels of the weekend. And have a look at some pretty pictures too…
Feature Panel: Jim Wooding, Dan Clowes, James Sturm, Seth and Chester Brown talk about going from Comic Books to Graphic Novels, choosing their next books subject, they reasons they want (and try) to draw in a different style and autobiographical comics.
The 6th Annual Doug Wright Awards hosted by Peter Outerbridge. Awards presented by Matt Forsythe, Carl Wilson, Jeet Heer and Geoff Pevere.
Comics and Social Media – James Sturm, Jeff Rowland, Kate Beaton, Rich Stevens, and Ray Fawkes talk about social media and their work their work while James Sturm talks about his recent decision to cut himself off the Internet for 4 months.
Webcomics And Serial Storytelling – Ananth Panagariya, Merridith Gran, Spike, Tara Tallan, Cameron Stewart and Ramon Perez talk about doing long form webcomics, including Jonathan Rosenberg’s recent post about shutting down his Goats webcomic.
Re-Making History: Curating And Packaging Reprints – Evan Dorkin, Seth, Dan Nadel and Jeet Heer talk about the resurgence of comic strips and other old comics and how the designs of the reprints affects changes how people view the work.
Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…