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Avatar Press has discovered that it is booked to appear at two conventions on the same weekend, hundreds of miles from each other, and across national borders. Picture William Christensen slapping his cheeks like Macaulay Culkin. Yes, just like that. So, Avatar will be at Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo this weekend, with William Christensen and Lady Death[...]

While Brendon and I were at MCM London Expo, Avatar were at Phoenix Comic Con This is very much an Avatar Booth point of view… Max Brooks And A Group of Zombie Survivors Waiting to get into Phoenix Comicon Max Brooks Signing Deadpool Crossed Deadpool Crossed Lady Death & Keith Davidsen, David Marks, Mike Wolfer Crossed Fan Si Spurrier, Jacen Burrows and a[...]

Avatar are to launch a new weekly webcomic in October, based on Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows' Crossed. Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier (Gutsville, X-Men) and Javier Barreno (Crossed Family Values) will be announced at Phoenix Comic Con and the new website hosting the free weekly Crossed episodes will be at www.crossedcomic.com[...]

One from Avatar, one from Boundless Both written by Mike Wolfer All both all  about the death, in its many forms… NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: Death Valley #2 Retail Price: $3.99 US Covers: Michael Dipascale, Mike Wolfer, Matt Martin Writer: Mike Wolfer Art: Dheeraj Verma A weekend in the middle of nowhere sounded like a good idea, but who could[...]

Out this week is CROSSED: PSYCHOPATH #2, no 3D glasses required. From David Lapham and Raulo Caceres, On with the solicitation and preview... The most

Out today folks, WOLFSKIN: Hundredth Dream #6 by Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer and Gianluca Pagliarani. Out today. Roll on the solicitation and preview...

At Orbital Comics, just off Leicester Square in London, Paul Duffield has an exhibition of original art. From his webcomic with Warren Ellis, Freakangels,

Bleeding Cool has just shown off five retailer exclusive covers for the Avatar/Boundless launch of War Goddess #0 But what about the comic book itself? Well, here's a preview of the comic in question. Bleeding Cool has just shown off five retailer exclusive covers for the Avatar/Boundless launch of War Goddess #0 But what about[...]

By placing orders for 350 copies or more of APR110915: WAR GODDESS #0 ART EXCLUSIVE 350-COPY INCENTIVE, retailers will be able to choose the 100%-unique-to-their-store cover artwork for their Retailer Exclusive edition, complete with their store logo on the cover. Interested retailers have to talk to Diamond and Boundless/Avatar's Keith Davidsen to sort out logos,[...]

Avatar seems to making a habit of hiring ex-Diamond Comic Distributors employees of late. Jim will be Avatar's new Vice President of Publishing and Managing Editor And not, as The Beat had him at Wondercon, joining Archaia Oopsie. Jim has had a stellar rep amongst publishers at Diamond, and he is one of the main Diamond people[...]

Shipping tomorrow from Avatar, in the US and the UK, it's bit of a thematic death week for them Lady Death, Living Dead, Living Dead annuals Then again, I suppose, for Avatar when is it not? Do check out the previews below and reward my patron. LADY DEATH 4 Cover: Garrie Gastonny Writer: Brian Pulido and Mike Wolfer Art:[...]

The final issue of Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows. What to show, what to talk about, what to say without spoilers. What I can say is that the

And now Avatar. But instead of going it alone, Avatar are partnering with fellow publisher Boom and using their distributors Simon & Schuster in the US and Harper Collins Canada. Boom's CEO Ross Richie is quoted in a press release saying "The Avatar library is an excellent compliment to the existing BOOM! list that doesn't cannibalize[...]

It's the last issue of Alan Moore and Jacen's HP Lovecraft comic book Neonomicon. And it's out in all its many covers, for C2E2. Time to get all your

The Goon Comics #1 by Eric Powell, Avatar Original cover price $3 Current market price $200 Price in May, $45 These represent some significant price rises for a number of modern day comics, as well as the million dollar selling Golden Age and Silver Age comics. Here are six recently published comic books that are currently[...]

What's not to love? Avatar (Avatarrrrr!) has a very different pirate Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island by Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres finally reaches a third issue And it's a very different kind of book, the art alone showing a dark, deeply textured world, with more in common with wood carvings than[...]

Turf has certainly been a long time coming. Onto issue 4, from Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards, this will at least give CLiNT something to run in

It's tomorrow's comics today! Aaron and Tri-Force Mike, nominated for Florida's A Comic Shop in the Bleeding Cool Fan Awards, share their love for comics,

Out from Avatar on Wednesday Remember folks, never read Crossed while eating spaghetti You'll flecks of juice all over the pages And then vomit… Here we go folks An advance look at the new Crossed comic from the Lapham and Caceres boys Out from Avatar on Wednesday Remember folks, never read Crossed while eating spaghetti[...]

A look at the front bits of Crossed Psychopath #4, David Lapham's new Crossed series from Avatar with artist Raulo Caceres, who gives us a wraparound cover Paul Duffield gives us a torture variant cover while series co-creator Jacen Burrows draws the regular cover… I'm not exactly sure where the staple will go on this one. [...]

I don't think I need to show the original here, do I? The wraparound cover to issue 3 of the Night Of The Living Dead: Death Valley comic drawn by the writer of the book, Mike Wolfer for Avatar Press. Here are the less Beatles-influenced covers Michael Dipascale and the gorier Matt Martin. [...]

Solicited by Boundless Comics in the upcoming March Previews catalog, The Art Of Lady Death Volume One is a hardcover collecting over 500 pages of artwork

Or they experience it by some kind of media osmosis, where they learn of things that might offend them, and get a kind of offence-by-proxy. I mean, seriously, in the third issue of my comic for Avatar Press Holed Up, I had the cast blow up a mosque in Mecca But no one read it, so[...]

Story by David Lapham, art by Javier Barreno, cover by Jacen Burrows and available in comic shops, worldwide, today, from Avatar. And here it is folks, The comic that bowled the guys at A Comic Shop over so much that owner Aaron said he preferred it to the original Garth Ennis/Jacen Burrows series And here[...]

There's nothing quite like the Little Bleeders of Bleeding Cool to crowdsource a comic analysis. Take Neonomicon #3 by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows. I'd

Youth minister Curt Hawn has sold his technology company DTI Global, serving law firms in Atlanta to fund the publication of a new comic book, Captain Salvation. Co-written with Christian camp counsellor Joshua Carpenter the books are drawn by artist Greg Waller, better known for his colour work on Avatar titles such as Doktor Sleepless, Crossed,[...]

Just as there are not just two layers to reality, there are not two groups opposed to each other here, there is a complexity. Neonomicon #3 does not make for pleasant reading – that's not unusual at Avatar But unlike Jacen's previous book Crossed, Neonomicon has many more crevices of character, meaning and symbolism to get[...]

You've waited long enough. Tomorrow in the USA and Canada and on Thursday in the UK, snow willing, comes the third part of Alan Moore's final graphic

Keith Davidsen writes for Bleeding Cool. If you're a Little Bleeder, you've heard the name David Lapham quite a lot.  As one of the most distinct voices in the comic book business, he's worked on such groundbreaking, gritty works as Stray Bullets, Young Liars, Detective Comics, Terror Inc., and Deadpool Max. His latest completed work was the[...]

As an immediate follow-up to Family Values, Lapham provided the no-holds-barred script for Crossed 3D, an original graphic novel to be released in January. And now he's poised to expand his Avatar body of work with not one, but two new projects, launching in February and March I recently had an opportunity to pick his brain,[...]