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Last year, DC Comics launched two series with a linked promotional campaign, The Movement and Green Team: Teen Trillionaires Linked to the Occupy campaign, the latter was intended to represent the 1%, the former the 99%. Both books have been cancelled, though The Movement has lasted a little longer with one or two comics yet to[...]

Jesse James, familiar to a number of Bleeding Cool writers I'm sure, and retailer of Jesse James Comics in Glendale, Arizona, is opening a new store in Las Vegas. In a deal with another Las Vegas store, Desert Wind, Jesse James Celestial Comics will be a 2000 sq foot based in the Neonopolis Center at the[...]

So… what have you been reading this week? Twenty Top Traffic Tales Of The Week Incredible – Watch The First Ten Minutes Of Captain America: The Winter Soldier Frank Cho's Naked She Hulk And Other Sketches From London Super Comic Con Disney And Pixar Announce The Incredibles 2 And Cars 3 Is This How They Are Bringing Back Damian? DC[...]

Last year we ran an article about Acme Comics and Ultimate Comics of North Carolina and their warring competition comic conventions Non-compete clauses, insulting cartoons, it got quite nasty. Well, it's 2014 And the war is back on This time between Ultimate Comics and neighboring Chapel Hill Comics. Chapel Hill announced a big sale on March 17th[...]

They say: Come one, come all, and hear the lovely/sordid/cray-cray tales spun by our talented storytellers! Hosted by the same folks who give you Pete's Mini Zine Fest, the very place where you can kick back a beer and read zines! Our lineup will be: Anoush Froundjian Andria Alefhi Lynn Bixenspan Mary Regan And our emcee, Morgan Pielli Sunday, March 30th Escape Pod[...]

Such as Eric Stephenson's speech to Comics PRO that is still getting folk talking And a few of them ranting and raving. As Bleeding Cool has pointed out previously, Boom! Studios had a admirable run of original series in 2013, including back-issue barn burners like Polarity and Day Men and critically acclaimed series like Six-Gun Gorilla,[...]

A collation of the top ten charts of a number if disparate store, measuring sales on Wednesdays and Thursdays only, those who can't wait till the weekend to buy their comics An indication of unstoppable desire…. Without the crossover events (or Batman) Superman Unchained has risen to the top this week, but the relaunch of Daredevil[...]

Do you remember Jackdaw? You may not. Created for Captain Britain/Black Knight strips in the Marvel UK title Hulk Weekly, he was an elf who palled around

But comics slipping forward? Not too common. That's what's happening with Rai #1, now Shipping one week early, so as to be out for Free Comic Book Day And give those folks who have picked up the Valiant FCBD title a chance to… spend some money, as well as the Rai #1 Plus Edition with 16[...]

A few Bleeding Cool readers who hail from my country have noticed that Amazon UK's listings for new comic related books in the UK are suddenly at full

Also no one tell Eric Stephenson about that "third" thing… Noted comics writer and editor Scott Allie will appear at Northern Essex Community College on Tuesday, March 25, from 6:30-8:30 p.m in the David Hartleb Technology Center on the Haverhill campus, 100 Elliott St This event is free and open to the public. Allie will discuss the[...]

Free Comic Book Day has put together a video of Stan Lee promoting this years upcoming Free Comic Book Day... This is the kind of thing Stan "The Man" can

Luke Foster writes for Bleeding Cool: Shortly before Thanksgiving 2012, I was complaining to my parents that I was in a rut both personally and in my day

By Dylan Gonzales Beer: D.O.R.I.S. the Destroyer Brewery: Hoppin’ Frog Last night marked my first experience with the Hoppin’ Frog Brewery and let me tell

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode81.mp3] Following on from this week's chat with Mike Mignola (which can still be heard here) – I continue the Hellboy Day celebrations with Dark Horse Publisher Mike Richardson, Mouse Guard's David Petersen, and editor Scott Allie – as well as Maura McHugh & Kim Newman, who have just been announced as writers on[...]

Genesis is a wonderful, feverish, odd book that reads like David Cronenberg's version of Inception and it's available for pre-order until March 24th from Image Comics.  The code is FEB140504, you should absolutely pre-order it, and here are the four reasons why. 1 Everything You Ever Wanted Nathan's script follows an idealistic young man called Adam, who[...]

I've run three successful kickstarter campaigns in the comics and tabletop games categories, and I'm in the middle of my fourth: The Flight Deck Playing Card series based on early airship and airplane designs The campaign runs until April 1st! In putting my projects together, I've done research into hundreds of campaigns, following them from start[...]

Marvel's new teaser image: Every Single One - is it every villain who was ever part of the Sinister Six? Maybe every villain he's ever faced? Everyone in

Publisher of both comics, IDW's Dirk Wood joked that it could be done. Well that retailer has gone a little further to make his case Sean Williamson has mocked up the following… This has to happen, doesn't it? At the Diamond Retailer Day a couple of weeks ago, one retailer asked aboutvthe possibility of a GI Joe/My[...]

Ah, now we're into more unfamiliar territory. Catbeard is a concept that, at first glance, could be tailor-made for webcomics People love cats on the internet (as do I), and let's face it, there's no better place for piracy! But it's always been my hope to make something more. I grew up reading comics, and among my[...]

Cody Walker writes for Bleeding Cool: After the first issue of NoirCity was released, I realized that Amanda Wolfe had been what people in the comic world

 Yes, I'm a proven commodity as a creator, but it's tricky to get new readers to jump onto a series in media res (a highly common problem in the comics industry) It's like trying to sell tickets to a movie that already started 20 minutes ago  My Book 1 backers are a great, reliable bunch,[...]

Sideshow Collectibles has put out previews for two new pieces coming soon. The first is a Red Hulk premium format figure that you can start pre-ordering

Jason Liebig used to be a Marvel comic book editor. Until he pointed out to Marvel President Bill Jemas that actually, no, Star Wars didn't start small

For instance, I immediately think of Ben Templesmith and Menton3, two members of the creative group Flood44, who have established unique artistic styles that have successfully cohabitated art book and comics (from Flood44's Tome and Lust to comic books Memory Collector and Ten Grand as recently published projects) And, Hillary Bauman, a Los Angeles based[...]

I turned to Kickstarter and Bleeding Cool to see if I was offering something that people actually wanted. A LIMITED ISSUE After growing up reading a variety of comics, graphic novels, movies and animation, I took a particular liking to titles like Kill Bill, Afro Samurai and Cowboy Bebop due to their ability to address the above,[...]

This afternoon, Duncan Fegredo, Mike McMahon and Lawrence Campbell were happily signing and sketching away at Gosh Comics in London, for Hellboy Day today, with comics, giveaways and eternal damnation.   There were some nice biccies on hand for the creators. And a very tasty limited print that sold nice and quickly. And one that people were happy[...]

Andres Salazar writes, My name is Andres Salazar. I’m a storyteller. I've been focusing most of my efforts in stories for adults, but any good writer

Today is Hellboy Day and I'm planning to pop by Gosh Comics in London today to see what's what. But it's only a precursor for this Wednesday's C-Day, the annual Crossed celebration that kicks off a Garth Ennis-penned Crossed Badlands arc And with issue 50, they are going to expose the story of Patient Zero, the[...]

Ryan Jenkyns works at Orbital Comics in London It's just possible you may have heard of that shop on Bleeding Cool before Anyway he has a Kickstarter live right now… take it away, Ryan! For some, comic books are just a fun recreational activity For me, it's kind of become my whole life Of course, that[...]