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Huddleston And Taylor Reunite For The Bully's Bully
James Taylor writes for Bleeding Cool: After 15 or so years in the industry for Courtney Huddleston and me, some of our creative friends asked us why we hadn't done our own thing in comics as we've worked together on and off for at least twelve of those years So we've had ideas brewing in our[...]
A Mad Tea-Party – Writing the Future As It Happens
Jonathon Dalton writes for Bleeding Cool: Writing a science fiction webcomic poses a unique challenge Science fiction, as you know, is never really about the future It's about the present But while a novelist or even a comic creator working just for print can revise and edit as they go and then release their creation to[...]
Witness The Fall Of A Hero In Max Atom
For helping us create the comic, we are offering exclusive rewards which are currently not available anywhere else This includes limited merchandise, custom art and most importantly, the physical comic itself The comics will only be printed for the our backers The first 33 backers will receive a sketch card Half of these have already[...]
Cazadora – Good Ole' Fashion Zombie Steampunk Action
1, Kintz and writer Sam Eggleston launched the Kickstarter campaign for Cazadora, a 28-page creator-owned comic that is seeking funds to cover the costs of a colorist and letterer and printing. "I had an image in my head and put it down on paper," said Kintz, affectionately known by his fans as Rantz "The next day[...]
10 Reasons Why You Should Back The SUPER-EGO Kickstarter Project
We're talking actual art on actual paper that you can frame and hang on your actual walls.  That's ART. 8) Because you, or a brand new hero or villain that you create, will appear in the brand new prologue sequence being created especially for this collection.  That's right – you can cameo and mingle with the[...]
Why Don't You Just Do It Yourself – How Champion Of Dema Started
Hameed Catel writes for Bleeding Cool: My name's Hameed, I'm a comic writer from KIRUcomics I love stories I love reading them but even more I love creating them My favourite genre would have to be the fantasy genre I believe stories are not just entertaining but were the first tool man ever employed for education[...]
The Birth of Tesla Electric Lights & Manufacturing
All it took was a single rough sketch page and I had a co-creator in Beau Wright. Over the course of a year, I worked overtime to raise money to pay her to transform my words into a comic one page at a time Then I finally had enough pages to put together a simple little[...]
Little Guys, Fat Rabbit – Its So Fluffy!
That someone was  Gwen Dreyer  (hi Gwen!).  She stopped by our booth, being drawn to our rabbit- themed comic appearance She happened to mention that her husband, Nicholas Doan were proud caretakers of rabbits themselves So of course we talked "rabbit" for a while and she mentioned that Nick is a writer and that he[...]
Simon Spurrier Talks His New Webseries Disenchanted
It will be collected twice a year. As part of the Halloween Comic Fest at your local comic shops (on Halloween), fans will be able to pick up a copy of Disenchanted Debut from Avatar Press perfectly timed with the launch of the webseries.  Spurrier talked about his new series, the inspiration and just what he's trying to[...]
Felipe Smith And Tradd Moore's New Comic For Marvel, To Be Announced At NYCC
But neither are what you'd call traditional comic book creators, and they seem at odds at Marvel. Though it appears they have a new comic out from Marvel Announcing at NYCC Overdrive… could it be something to do with Ghost Rider? Whatever it is, it's All New Marvel Now… Felipe Smith is an manga writer/artist, creator[...]
Girl Trouble Takes On A Whole New Meaning In EPIC
The Kickstarter platform is one of the best ways to do that. As a concept trying to compete in a crowded, fickle comic market, I know EPIC faces an uphill battle First, it's a capes book…and Marvel and DC, with a few exceptions, have that genre locked up pretty tightly And second, there is nothing pretentious[...]
Ben's Okay, Folks.
After today's earlier reported news that Ben Templesmith was to be dropped from the Image comic book Ten Grand after he didn't respond to communication from Image or the book's writer Joe Michael Straczynski, naturally, some people were concerned Including us. Earlier tonight, Ben did reply to emails I sent to him, assured me, and all[...]
Glyn Dillon And Jon McNaught, Stripped
Everyone was there to celebrate comics in all their many splendored beauty. First impressions were that McNaught and Dillon are the two shyest and humblest talkers of the weekend Which is kind of surprising on the back of them having won major awards, the Prix Révélation, The Best Newcomer Award at Angouleme for McNaught and Prix[...]
A Jack Kirby Birthday Tribute Comic
  Shawn Demumbrum writes; Jesse James of Jesse James Comics and I have been working on a tribute comic to help support the Kirby4Heroes campaign to raise funds for the Hero Initiative in celebration of what would have been Jack Kirby's 96th birthday  We enlisted the help of comic book creators Eric Mengel and Denny Riccelli to help recruit artists to contribute[...]
More IDW Doctor Who Comic Evidence For The "Hurt Insert"
Something we managed to miss a whole month ago. TV, comic and novel writer Paul Cornell wrote a blog post about his upcoming final Doctor Who comic book story The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, the last such licenced comic from IDW (before Titan get the deal). And it includes a preview of the first two pages,[...]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes – Cataclysm #0.1 By Joshua Hale Fialkov
The comic Cataclysm #0.1 was solicited from Marvel for October with an unknown creative team and a CLASSIFIED description. Now the nature of the Cataclysm event in the Ultimate Universe in November is better known, initially cancelling all the titles (with possibly the chance to restart them all again after it's concluded) is a little clearer[...]
The Look Of Smoke And Ashes
Alex De Campi has just posted for people who backed the Ashes comic on Kickstarter It exists In very very physical form Honest. As a project that has had its fair share of ups and downs, she writes; The books are set to arrive via boat at Dark Horse in Oregon on or around Sept 13, then[...]
My Little Pony Deluxe Hardcover –  Here Comes Ponypalooza
The My Little Pony Deluxe Hardcover is the biggest book from the IDW Limited imprint to date, creating exclusive, expensive, highly rendered comic books for collectors, with original artwork, sold directly from the publisher. They'll be selling pre-orders next week, each day with a different cast member variant… here's a look at the kind of[...]
Hello Kitty Comic Books To Debut At San Diego Comic Con 2013
  And you thought My Little Pony sold a lot of comic books… Viz is about to start publishing Hello Kitty manga, with a series of original graphic novels featuring the uber-popular Sanrio mascot. A Hello Kitty single issue will also debut at San Diego Comic Con, with a cover by Jacob Chabot, and the comic drawn by[...]
Devil May Cry Comic Hits Digital Today, But Print Will Have To Wait Four Months
Titan Comics is publishing a translated-to-English French licensed comic based on the game, Devil May Cry, by Guillaume Dorison aka Izu, Robin Recht and Patrick Pion The first part of DmC: Devil May Cry: The Vergil Chronicles is released digitally today alongside the release of the new game DmC: Devil May Cry, with the concluding second chapter[...]
Kieron Gillen Talks Young Avengers, Indeed, It's Difficult To Get Him To Stop.
For the last few weeks, Kieron Gillen has been writing about the cast of his new comic with Jamie McKelvie and friends, Young Avengers, commentary and soundtracks It comes out tomorrow So here are a few snippets from each with links to the main events. Marvel Boy Noh-Varr has two saving graces Firstly, he hasn't collapsed completely[...]
Yes, 2013, We Have A Thousand Dollar Chew #1
But it shows you that demand for the comic is, at least, priced at $1200. I really wish Rob Guillory and John Layman were sitting on unopened boxes of the comic Sadly I don't think that's the case…   At the end of 2012, I asked whether the New Year would bring us a Chew #1 selling[...]
Phoenix Comic Launches App, With Free Issue. You Know, For Kids.
Bleeding Cool has been repeatedly praising Phoenix Comic, a weekly anthology comic for kids sold in Britain Indeed we've suggested that if you know kids in the UK that don;'read Phoenix, it's tantamount to neglect not to let them read Phoenix. Well now I'm taking that international As Phoenix Comic has launched a newiOS  app, with[...]
Charlie Hebdo's The Life Of Muhammad Comic Goes On Sale
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has published the first chapter of its biography if Muhammed in comic book form. It is available to buy online for six Euros. It is likely to sell out rather quickly. We're not running an image of Muhammad from the comic book on Bleeding Cool for a number of reasons, so as to[...]