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So, is this movie based on a comic book? Not a bit of it. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, (the mid nineties) Scott Rosenberg had just sold Malibu to Marvel and as Platinum Studios, he was flush with cash With Ervin Rustemagić, founder of Strip Art Features in Sarajevo, he gotten hold[...]

Viz Comic has been going for thirty years, with comic strips satirising every aspect of British life, playing off the styles of children's comics from the creators' respective childhoods. Every year they release compilation annuals of some of the year's best work, each collection given a euphemistic title This year's volume entitled The Cleveland Steamer refers[...]

Frank Cho has announced that he will be announcing a new comic book project at San Diego, one he has been working on for ten years. "The genesis of the story started with a single image I think I was mowing the grass at the time when that single image came to me (The colored image[...]

A few minutes ago, Bleeding Cool announced Stitched, a new film written and directed by Garth Ennis, that will spin off into a continuing comic book series from Avatar by Garth Ennis and Mike Wolfer The book will be published in November, along with the retail version of the DVD And the cover gives us[...]

The revealed cover to Ultimate Comics Fallout #4 gives us a number of questions Pascual Ferry on art? A flashback to Amazing Spider-Man #50's "Spider-Man No More"? And could this be the first time the new Ultimate Spider-Man puts on the suit? It is a different looking suit for sure… a darker hue. Seriously, can we[...]

In that case, September is your month, We've had some minis and some one shots and now IDW are committing to a full blown monthly Ghostbusters comic by Erik Burham and Dan Schoening with covers by Nick Runge Each issue will contain two pages of extras as back matter by Tristan Jones, too. And just as[...]

In certain DC Universe titles this week, joy of joys, you get another Justice League Subway comic. It's a step up on last week in that at no point does Aquaman say that he shouldn't be swimming in the ocean alone But it does appear to have Green Lantern helping a professional basketball player cheat at[...]

The events of the JJ Abrams Star Trek movie basically reset the Star Trek continuity from scratch, to free up the film series to tell some very different stories with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Chekov, Sulu, Uhuru, Scotty et al. And now this new Star Trek universe will be explored by a new ongoing IDW Star Trek[...]

Earlier this evening. "Come on, put your comic down." "It's a graphic novel!" Thank you BBC One and sitcom In With The Flynns for that little clip Seven minutes in on the iPlayer if you don;t believe me. How much on Amazon? This is a better solution… Earlier this evening. "Come on, put your comic down." "It's a graphic novel!" Thank you BBC[...]

Bleeding Cool is very happy to host the first two page chapter of a comic book created by the BBC, to promote their returning police drama, Luther, starring Idris Elba, starting on Tuesday, 9pm on BBC One. They've used the imagery of the show's title sequence to create a theme and tone for the story[...]

Disney has launched a very swish HTML5 enhanced comic book format for its new Tron: Legacy online comic, launching today It's meant to only work on Internet Explorer 9, but it seems fine on Google Chrome (and dead on Firefox), and the comic is viewed in a continual sideways scrolling fashion As you "grab" one[...]

Appearing in DC comics this week as a special advertising insert, and also being given away at select outlets, this is the Super 8 free mini-comic by Peter Tomasi and Tommy Lee Edwards with Alex Ross on cover duties, with a special competition at the end for you to win lots of cool free stuff,[...]

Here is the teaser trailer for the enhanced digital comic book The Thrill Electric by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Emma Vieceli and Windflower Studios Studio for Channel 4 It was shown at the MCM London Expo this weekend, and has been given exclusively to Bleeding Cool to share with the world. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFmBXgJ-Ps0[/youtube] Which is handy because today[...]

To accompany the album they're releasing a full 28 page comic book by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Hope Larson, Jamie Mckelvie, Jeff Lemire, Akira The Don, Jamie S Rich, Jeffery Brown, Jeffery Lewis, Let's Be Friends Again, Marc Ellerby, Mr Solo, Sian Superman and Patrick McQuade. But they're also putting together a comic book style letters page[...]

Kevin Colden has a strip in the Strange Adventures anthology book out from Vertigo on Wednesday. But enough of that, here are some pages from a pitch he once made for a comic book adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel, A Clockwork Orange. Hi! Kevin Colden has a strip in the Strange Adventures anthology book out from[...]

One of the central criticisms of biographical and licensed comics publisher Bluewater, is that it deals in back-end work-for-hire contracts The people sign all their rights away but only get paid from profits, if any, if the book sells over a certain number Which has seen people not receive a penny and not own anything[...]

Every major (and a bunch of minor) comics and non-comics project by Moore get their own chapter, from AARGH to Captain Britain to BoJeffries Saga And there are plenty of never-before seen treats from Alan Moore's birth certificate (so make sure he was born in Northmapton, so one day he could be President) to the[...]

Joe Michael Straczynski, who recently revived the Thor comic at Marvel and helped make it a top ten book again, appears in the Thor movie, as the first person to try and pick up the hammer. I did a cameo on the new Thor movie It was supposed to be just a ten second deal, but[...]

Why the excitement over that particular copy? Because it's the one owned by Dragon creator Erik Larsen, clearly annoyed at the silly prices the comic is currently getting. He writes (and watch out for the captal letters and exclamation marks); PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE BIDDING!! YOU ARE BIDDING on Savage Dragon #145!! Hey, why be ripped off[...]

Diamond, it seems, have delayed shipping the Bluewater royal wedding comic to comic book stores next week I can feel publisher Darren Davis' pain, I really can The book may be competition for my own, but considering the amount of publicity he's organised, he must ache when he sees comic stores without the comic in[...]

Yes you can download this new horror comic  from IDW and Frozen Beach Studios, on the iPhone and iPad You will be able to download it on the PSP Or… you can just read it Here For free Enjoy. Yes you can download this new horror comic  from IDW and Frozen Beach Studios, on the[...]

But Lady Sabre and the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether is an upcoming webcomic from Greg Rucka and Rich Burchett coming in July. It's described by Rucka on the Stumptown podcast as "A steampunk, pirates, western thing, with airships and floating island and clockwork bosuns and swordfights and hopefully witty dialogue." Yeee Arrr! It's true, it does[...]

And I'm told that a possible appearance on ITV's This Morning sometime next week may send the book to a third print. I don't think I've ever had a comic go to second print before I'm telling my mum. Gaws bless Prince William and Kate Middleton/soon-to-be Princess Catherine! Kate & William: A Very Public Love Story by[...]

Rule Britannia! Britannia waives the rules! Artist Gary Erskine, Letterer/Designer Ian Sharman, Colourist Owen Jollands and myself spent this afternoon meeting the world's press and signing copies of our royal wedding comics for adoring fans. And, yes, I looked an absolute tit wearing this thing, but I was Forbidden Planet's meat puppet and happy to wear[...]

Pope Benedict XVI is getting his own comic book – and it's not from Bluewater. Manga Hero, an Californian Christian manga publisher is published the volume for World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain Titled Habemus Papam!, these are the Latin words used after the papal election, translated as "We have a pope!" Latin title? Yes, definitely not[...]

He doesn't do things by halves, does he? Alan Robert, bassist and original member for rock band Life of Agony and founder of punk band Spoiler NYC, is now making a live action movie of his own comic, Wire Hangers from IDW, which in a stunning departure for musicians-turned-comic-creatorse, he wrote and drew himself without swiping[...]

The Comics Journal has changed from a monthly title to a more occasional massive volume And issue 301, 624 pages in length is charged at a very reasonable $30 when it comes out in June. But for some reason, Amazon.com are accepting orders for $11.93, that's 61% off the cover price Not only is it less[...]

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. [...]

But this is also the first time it's been adapted as a comic book to promote the movie. Written by Dan Light and Ben Read, drawn by Christian Wildgoose and lettered by Jim Campbell. It's available free on Comixology, as a download PDF or… right below… There's a film, called True Grit, apparently[...]

Earlier this year L'il Orphan Annie went to meet her parents. Then Cathy gave a final "Ack!" And now the seventy-year long strip Brenda Starr, Reporter is