John Rozum recently talked about his problems as writer of Static Shock, citing that he was hardly writing the book, the actual work being split between artist Scott McDaniel and editor Harvey Richards, which is why he chose to walk off the book with issue 4, not wanting his name to be associated with work…
The Darkness #100 is on its way… And this is the first you’ll have seen of the Todd McFarlane (above), the Michael Golden (below) and the Marc Silvestri retailer incentive (further below). 48 pages for $4.99 US, it’s out the last day of February. But since the Darkness II game comes out today, it seems…
It was the recent ICV2 interview with Marvel Senior Vice President-Sales David Gabriel that did it. Answering a questionnaire with no followups, he managed to dodge some questions by answering different ones, and throw some googlies at the opposing team. But he’s hardly alone in this, DC’s Executive VP-Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood…
Pretty much as premiered last night at Sony’s The Untold Story special events, here’s the first full trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. This time there’s Lizard, there’s more back story and there’s a good sense of the “new” Peter Parker. I say “pretty much” because those of usat the events got to see it in…
A few weeks ago, after Alex De Campi and Jimmy Broxton/James Hodgkins fell out over one of the more successful Kickstarter comics projects, Ashes, Alex was despairing, and talking about quitting comics for good and making moves to retrain for an entirely different career. I toldher that would be a tragedy and a waste. She…
Leah Moore, co-writer of the medium-redefining webcomic The Thrill Electric – and also one of Alan Moore’s daughters – had something to say about the announcement today of Before Watchmen. I have to say I find it hard to disagree.
I’m currently travelling around Southeast Asia, stopping by Bangkok, the Laos border, and Singapore, away from the familiarity of First World Problems in the West. Contrary to what a lot of Westerners like to think, it’s not primitive here. They have wifi, fibre-optic cable, coffee bars and Western food. Gaming culture is big in Asia,…
Portland? No. Seattle? No. Manhattan? No. San Diego? No. The greatest concentration of people reading comics on the Nook is in Brookyln. Analysis welcome.
Last year, there was a kind of proto-Extreme relaunch with Mark Poulton and Owen Gieni recreating the Rob Liefeld character Avengelyne for Image Comics. Well, inspired by Jim Zubavich‘s free online serialised experiment with Makeshift Miracle, Owen Gieni worked out a deal with Rob Liefeld to serialize issues of Avengelyne daily via Keenspot, while pointing…
BeDamnedDelight: Graphic.Ly introduces a Rosetta Stone for digital comics publishign. Basically, if you are an author of visual stories, such as children’s books, graphic novels, art books, picture books, shoot even cookbooks or yearbooks, you can now come to Graphicly, upload it, and then have it automagically converted to work on (almost) every single channel…
Today, comiXology added a hundred new Marvel collections to their store. Giving a deal on collecting a series of issues in one digital download, the equivalent of a digital trade paperback. But sharp eyed downloaders spotted a bargain. For a few minutes Ozma Of Oz, issues 1 to 8 by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young,…
Say you have an awesome idea for a comic book… where do you begin? The knee jerk reaction would be to start drawing… or writing a story. Stop! Ask yourself a few questions… okay, just one question… Do you know how to distinguish your main character from the sea of characters already out there? If…
Okay, “needs” is a strong word. As Paul Duffield says, he can work one day a week on his new graphic novel, and it may take years. But if he can raise money with the international social network funding site IndieGoGo, then he can spend more time on the project and get it out… this…
Making your own digital comic for worldwide distribution on iOS. And by digital, I mean with all the bells and whistles. Panel by panel guide, animation, sounds, the lot, courtesy of iBooks Author, now available free for Apple Mac computers, and publishable in the iBooks format, as well as PDFs or text, and suddenly available…
There was one time when Ron Perazza was consider one of the most powerful up and coming comics employees, DC’s digital expert and founder of their now-abandoned Zuda Comics line. He then was appointed Vice President of Online, managing DC’s move to digital comics through comiXology. He was once tipped by some people for the…
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool gave you issues 0 and 1 of Kirby Genesis by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross and Jack Herbert from Dynamite…. for free. Today, you get issue 2… also for free. Then you get a weekend break. And then issues 3 and 4 will be available on Monday and Tuesday. Issue 5… you can…
We’ve finally been given a look at Loki’s forces in the new, extended trailer for The Avengers, as premiered online just after a cut-down version graced the Superbowl. Here are four screen grabs from the single shot in which they appear with any degree of clarity: So it’s not the Skrull or the Kree –…
Here’s the new TV spot for The Avengers as premiered during the Superbowl – just, longer now. And that’s a good thing. For those of you who watched the Superbowl just to see this commercial, tell me: was it worth it?
In yesterday’s webchat (referred to earlier), Alan Moore revealed that the next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen project to follow the conclusion of Century this summer, is to be called Nemo: Heart Of Ice, and that forty of the forty-eight pages involved have been written so far… and that we’ll see it before the end of…
(Welcome Facebook people… please tell us who has linked to us, because we’re gettng massive traffc and we’d like to say thanks. And you can see more Bleeding Cool Doctor Who coverage here.) The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will tomorrow be playing The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, described in their schedule as: A musical celebration with…
Is it Spider-Man? Or has Iron Man just got a fancy new paint job? This is the costume he’ll be wearing in the upcoming Ends Of The Earth storyline, as the machinations of Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six are made clear. There’s webbing design on the lining as well.
When reporting early rumours about Before Watchmen, almost every name I was given turned out to be true – Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello, JMS, Amanda Conner, JG Jones, Andy Kubert, Joe Kubert, Adam Hughes and John Higgins. There was another name that I dismissed as it was denied directly – that of Kevin Smith. His…
