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: November 2011
One Of The Greatest Comics Creators You’ve Never Heard Of – Mark Stafford
Mark Stafford is one of my favourite comic book artists. Somewhere between Robert Crumb and Evan Dorkin, he has a reputation for being able to work in any style – but always making it 100% Stafford. Well, now he finds himself in the position of needing to raise some funds sharpish, and is selling off…
David Hine, Animal Rights Activist From The Eighties
Every now and then, you’re reminded just how old David Hine (Azrael, Darkness, The Spirit) actually is. So our thanks to Conflict Gypsy for scanning in this Graphic Guide illustrated by David Hine, adapting ‘Animal Liberation’ – the bible of the animal liberation front by leading activist and animal rights philosopher Peter Singer. From 1987….
Bleeding Cool’s Ultimate Black Friday Comic Stores List
It’s Black Friday time! So which store and/or website will you be lining up outside? Mondo has its first DC Comics print, painted by JC Richard. Fortress of Solitude (above) will cost $50 and will be available… at some point. Crush Comics of Castro Valley, California is having a sale. No idea what, yet. Chapel…
Friday Runaround – It’s All About The Politics
PoliticsWatch: New Zealand cartoonist Haden Currie has released a free comic book both satirising and celebrating the current Prime Minister John Key, before this Saturday’s General Election. PoliticsWatch2: He might not have the same luck in Russia though, Russian comics from communist parties have been banned for presenting President Putin in an unflattering fashion, suffering…
First Images From The Set Of Keanu Reeves’ 47 Ronin
47 Ronin is being directed by Carl Erik Rinsch, a commercials director on the roster at Ridley Scott Associates and Scott’s own pick for the job of directing an Alien prequel, before Fox nixed his choice and started the process that brought us to Prometheus. Last year Rinsch made a short film in the Panasonic…
Michael Shannon On Take Shelter And, For Just A Second, The Man Of Steel
It’s not a surprise that Michael Shannon can carry a motion picture, but he shoulders the considerable dramatic weight of Take Shelter with such ease, with so little apparent effort, that his performance might be taken a little for granted. Perhaps we’re getting used to Shannon now, after he burned a hole through Revolutionary Road,…
Thursday Trending Topics: Another Day Of Spoilers
As Rich notes in today’s top post, spoilers have been a major topic of conversation this week. And if what happened in this particular instance is an accidental editorial slip, I’m frankly surprised it doesn’t happen more often. Because the editorial side of the equation doesn’t think about the timeline in terms of just in-store…
Ferals – A Very Nasty Comic By David Lapham
So William Christensen, publisher of Avatar Press and Bleeding Cool, asks me if I’d like to look at the first issue of Ferals, coming out in January by David Lapham and Gabriel Andrade. He tells me that the comic is his favourite thing he’s read of David’s work so far. And that he’s onto the…
Scorsese’s Sinatra Looks Like A Lip-Syncing Leonardo DiCaprio, In 3D
Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is currently getting its ass kicked by Kermit at the US box office, though please, nobody mention Breaking Dawn. Perhaps a tiny bit of Hugo‘s problem is in how the films were promoted: for The Muppets, a healthy number of folk got to interview Kermit and Piggy and Walter and so on;…
Swipe File: Supergirl And Supergirl… And Wile E Coyote
From a comic for young kids in Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures In The Eighth Grade #1 to a comic for older men in the new 52 Supergirl #2… Meep! Meep! In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, jokes, coincidences or…
Tim Burton’s B. Boy Makes His Big Parade Debut
There’s some kind of big, sponsored parade in New York today, I understand.* The debutante balloon at this year’s show was B. Boy, as created by Tim Burton. His backstory bears clear signs of its creator: B. was created, Frankenstein’s monster-style, from the leftover balloons used in children’s parties at the Great Ormond Street Hospital…
DC Recalls And Reprints Showcase Presents: Ghosts Over This Missing Page
Last week, DC Comics published Showcase Presents: Ghosts, a collection of stories from their seventies comic Ghosts: True Tales of the Weird and Supernatural. Most of it anyway. It turns out all copies were missing a page. As a result, DC Comics will reprint the entire print run and will send retailers replacement copies. Until…
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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…
