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Don’t Blink: A Doctor Who Burlesque

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool Throughout its fifty-year run of a centuries-old alien time traveler running down corridors with an attractive young woman from goofy looking monsters, Doctor Who has long begged a question. Perhaps THE question–the first question, …

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Reviewing Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Rick Verbanas

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool As I write this, Warren Ellis’ second novel Gun Machine has made it onto the New York Times bestseller list five days after its release. That’s not bad. It’s an accolade that arrives between …

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Review: Warren Ellis’ Gun Machine

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool. You know, at this rate, Warren Ellis may leave comics for crime fiction and not look back. This January sees the release of his second novel Gun Machine from Mulholland Books, his second full-length …

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Lying In The Gutters – 4th April 2012

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This was the week in which ComiXology got hacked… and ComiXology hacked right back again. When the mainstream media caught up with the existence of gay superhero characters again. And when we delved into Frank Miller’s childhood past for his …

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Comics: Philosophy and Practice with Spiegelman, Crumb, Seth, Ware, Bechdel, Burn, Sacco And Friends

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool A different kind of comic con came to Chicago this past weekend as the University of Chicago hosted Comics: Philosophy and Practice, a three-day academic conference that hosted the biggest names in the history …

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Lying In The Gutters – 14th March 2012

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This week we launched the Second Annual Bleeding Cool Fan Awards… do go and vote! You can even vote twice! The awards will be awarded at the end of the month at the Phoenix Comic Con. So what have you …

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Celebrating Ray Bradbury At San Diego With Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Dave Eggers And More

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool Long time Comicon attendee Ray Bradbury gets honored this year with the San Diego premiere of Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury. Edited by Bradbury biographer Sam Weller and internationally published …

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Girls With Slingshots’ Danielle Corsetto Talks To Greg Baldino

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool Girls with Slingshots is a bit of a misnomer; there are no slingshots and all of the female characters are of adult age– which makes it way less controversial for them to work in …

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Lying In The Gutters – 23rd April 2012

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Photo from C2E2 by Anna Fischer. Chris Roberson is the first to publicly quit DC Comics asa result of Before Watchmen. Will he be the last? And with out DC zero issue story getting publicly confirmed, and more Before Watchmen …

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Jeph Jacques’ Questionable Content

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool Questionable Content is many things: A webcomic about a haphazardly adjusted group of twenty-somethings in New England. A serial narrative set in a context of kitchen-sink science fiction. Perhaps most importantly, it’s one of …

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Reading With Josh Elder

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool Josh Elder wants kids to read comics in school. Kids want to read them in school too. And so do the teachers. Josh Elder is the energetic founder of Reading With Pictures, a nonprofit …

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Lying In The Gutters – 16th April 2012

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

C2E2 filled the weekend from Chicago, but there were also conventions in Toronto and Australia going on as well. Me, I was also away at my folks with the family. Working, obviously, I wasn’t going to let you all down …

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Lying In The Gutters – 9th April 2012

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Got something in my head called Before Batman. It may go somewhere. But Dustin Nguyen’s piece makes me smile. Here comes Chicago… Bleeding Cool will have a few people on the ground for this year’s show but if you’re going …

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Chicago Cake – A New Small Press Festival

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool It’s a good year to be a comics fan in Chicago. In addition to C2E2, Wizard World, a plethora of comic shops and numerous events throughout the city; this year sees the Windy City …

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Reading 75 Years Of DC Comics by Greg Baldino

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Myth Making is a difficult book to review here at the start of 2012– and not just because it weighs fifteen pounds and takes up almost …

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Lying In The Gutters – 12th December 2011

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Rich Johnston

It’s off how one Facebook post can tear the internet in half. SO anyway, this is what you have been reading this week. Aren’t you all sophisticated sorts? Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week 1. JMS Vs Steve Wacker …

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The Walking Dead Novel – Jay Bonansinga Interviewed By Greg Baldino With Audio Book Excerpt

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool How do you follow up on someone else’s masterwork? It’s one of the cornerstones of fan-culture: What would YOU have done? What do YOU think happened next? It’s all well and good as fan-fic …

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Lying In The Gutters – 14th November 2011

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Rich Johnston

And people say weekends are slow for traffic. Not when Frank Miller speaks, they are not. And the stories haven’t quite finished in that regard, either. More to come… Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week 1. Comics Industry Issues …

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