This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on. They say I am a work in progress. The fools. Comic Book Piracy, Jim Lee In Egypt, And Paris Hilton In…
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Bleeding Cool was the first site to run DC’s letter to freelancers concerning digital payments in full. Now we’re doing to the same with Marvel. The following letter was sent out to Marvel’s exclusive freelancer talent on Monday, June 21st, as part of a new communication missive. Non-exclusive talent will receive the letter this coming…
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Mark Stafford is one of my favourite comic creators on the planet. I had the privelege to first publish him in the USA with my Dirtbag and X-Flies comics. Recently he also drew the cover to Civil Wardribe. But in the US he is best known for drawing Bryan Talbot’s Cherubs. He also writes about…
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How do you define “talent”? 1. A marked innate ability, as for artistic accomplishment. 2. a. Natural endowment or ability of a superior quality. b. A person or group of people having such ability: The company makes good use of its talent. 3. A variable unit of weight and money Ability, skill… and money. The…
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Patrick Stewart and William Shatner are to perform a rare double act at Wizard World Chicago this year in August. This will be the first time the pair of USS Enterprise Captains from the TV series Star Trek and Star Trek The Next Generation have appeared togetehr to sel photographs and signatures. Last year Shatner…
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Many people will rewatch last week’s episode of Doctor Who, The Pandorica Opens, before this week’s finale The Big Bang. But I’ve been advised that I would be wise to re-watch the first episode of the new series, The Eleventh Hour again. All sorts of things may be given new light since we last watched…
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The Suicide Girls are a famous collective of “alternative” looking women who engage with men for money online, often but not always in a sexually suggestive fashion. Goth, emo, punk, pierced, tattooed, heavy on the eye liner or simply not the Barbie doll look favoured my most sites, they’ve gained fame and admirers from the…
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CartoonWatch: ToonZone tells us that, James Jones, producer of the upcoming Dorothy Of Oz movie, has a new animated film in the works. Entitled StarTeam, it’s described as Harry Potter meets Lost In Space. HomophobiaWatch: “Even the Archie comic books now have a gay person in them. Teachers across the country have lost discipline and…
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Every now and then I get criticised for even commenting once on the Batman XXX A Porn Parody production. That I should be ashamed of myself, I’m just a hit whore and am not worthy to lick the boots of more respectable publications. Like the Village Voice. Who have just commissioned an entire strip parodying…
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Cover-and-occasionally-internal-pages artist Mike Mayhew has a new Marvel gig. And he’s looking for models. He posts to Craigslist I have a gig from Marvel Comics, and I am in need of the following types: – caucasian female with long red-hair. Blondes might work for this one. – caucasian female with short red-hair. – African American…
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Yesterday Bleeding Cool ran the story about the launch of the DC Comics App for the iPhone and iPad. But some readers found themselves unable to use this wondrous programme. It turns out there was some incompatibility with earlier iPhone and iPod Touch devices, the DC Comics App and the new version 4 operating systems…
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Why do I suddenly think that this will be the most read post of the day? You’re all just so predictable. Husband and wife team Brian (Kotaku) Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda have written a new book, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential, that’s been a hit inĀ Japan and is now eeking its way out through the West. The…
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This is a new trailer for the Nintendo DSi and PS3 game No No Kuni that uses animation and design from Spirited Away creators Studio Ghibli. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
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Looks like Top Cow weren’t the first. IDW have already created Hastings Exclusive cover editions. Just didn’t think to tell anyone. So we have red foil exclusive covers for James Patterson’s Witch & Wizard, Robert Bloch’s Yours Truly Jack The RipperĀ out on Hastings shelves now, and True Blood upcoming. For those of you who…
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There’ always been an element of chance getting into the comic industry. Buying the right drink for the right editor at the right time. Showing your portfolio just when an editor has discovered their artist has gone exclusive for the opposition. Or drawing a comic about an editor’s wife’s favourite type of cat. But at…
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