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Ultimate Spider-Man is a successful show on Disney XD, with decent ratings, audience reaction and the kind of thing a broadcaster likes to hear. It was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjJbkv1H3PM The BBC's new Wimbledon trailer reminded a number of Bleeding Cool readers of another advertising campaign...

Here is the introduction to the Art Of Chaykin by Howard Chaykin, published by Dynamite this week. It is written by Brian Bendis, better known for comic

GlitchWatch: Kick Ass 2 hardcover gets a 50% discount from Amazon UK… a greater discount than many retailers pay… VolunteerWatch: The kind of industry story that will warm your heart. Imagine this: 300 people—some on foot, some in vehicles including cars, trucks, a motorcycle with a sidecar, and a wheelchair—all showing up at Source Comics and Games[...]

Rich helps us get ready for one of the biggest events of the summer with an advance review of the issue leading up to it: The Walking Dead is about to become the most popular monthly comic in the comics industry, even if it is just for one issue But that is issue one hundred[...]

This week's illustration by Shaky Kane, of Image Comics' Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred, is an original, inspired by Avatar's Crossed series, entitled Cross-Screw… This week's illustration by Shaky Kane, of Image Comics' Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred, is an original, inspired by Avatar's Crossed series, entitled Cross-Screw… This week's illustration by Shaky Kane, of Image Comics' Bulletproof Coffin:[...]

I'm told that the print run for the first print of Boom's Higher Earth #2 by Sam Humphries, Manuel Bracchi and Francesco Biagini was 7,550. And that it

The nominations for the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award, the winner to be announced during the Eisner Awards ceremony at San Diego, have been

He wrote a critically acclaimed run on Stormwatch for DC Comics, Team Achilles And animator and video game writer Micah Ian Wright's work was given added gravitas, writing about a US army group sanctioned with the job of keeping superheroes in line, when he used to be a US Ranger And one who now criticised[...]

Bleeding Cool reported last week about the case of a young teenage girl taking a copy of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrow's Neonomicon, published by Bleeding

You almost can't believe no one else had thought of them first. It's also great to see Kirkman and Howard back to creating comics together, because their previous labor of love The Astounding Wolf-Man died too young, in my opinion You just know Howard is having a blast on art duty, because some of the designs[...]

Geronimo! FC • 32 pages • $3.99 DOCTOR WHO: DAVE GIBBONS COLLECTION Pat Mills, Steve Moore, Steve Parkhouse, & John Wagner  (w) • Dave Gibbons (a & c) Industry legend Dave Gibbons illustrated a classic run of Doctor Who comics, and this oversized book collects them all! And in full color! Gibbons-drawn strips began appearing in the very first[...]

We mentioned this last week, but Midtown Comics has now given out more details. Along with a number of comic stores across the country, Midtown Comics Downtown in Manhattan are hosting a same-sex wedding in their store between customers  Scott Everhart and Khris Wilson to coincide with the release this week of Astonishing X-Men #51, featuring a[...]

This article contains minor spoilers, but nothing that I believe spoils the comic book reading experience. The Walking Dead is about to become the most popular monthly comic in the comics industry, even if it is just for one issue But that is issue one hundred I've just read issue 99. No spoilers here Not, at least,[...]

But they should find a lot more to love with this chapter. I think I'm going to go and read it again. The big signing is this Saturday at Gosh Comics on Berwick Street, as well as the release of the Black Dossier vinyl record, only available, in person, at that store along with the newly UK-redistributed[...]

Because she wore a dress and did her hair. Meanwhile, Katy Perry made a bid to join the ranks of Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four and Captain America. She's long favoured the cartoon look, but America's favourite songstress excelled herself tonight by transforming into a bonafide superhero for the MuchMusic Video Awards. The 27-year-old looked like she'd stepped straight[...]

We looked at No More Heroes, a new self published superhero comic with high pretensions, which debuted earlier this year. Well, the third issue is on its

The first print run was 45,000. The second print run was of an indeterminate size. But now, it appears, X-O Manowar #1 is to get a third printing from

Remember the more money you save the more comics you can buy  Also, its about a 45 minute drive from the airport to the con  So put it in your schedule as lost time on the floor  Hopefully, if your staying at a hotel they have a shuttle service  Also, your not having a heart[...]

I managed to get to the East London Comics & Art Festival, and take a few photos, while the show was pleasantly busy but before it got bone-crushingly full So feel free to enjoy a brief look at some of the best looking comic books in the world, hand crafted by artisans and sold with[...]

A number of artists and designers have recreated a large number of London phone boxes, now becoming obsolete due to the proliferation of mobile phones, and have instead been recreated as pieces of art, and distributed across to London. And one, in Shoreditch, metres from today's East London Comics & Arts Fair still going on, and[...]

Publishing comics, hell publishing anything, can be a real issue Which is why communication at all levels of a company is important Ignoring someone you owe money to, doesn't make them nicely inclined towards you and they are more likely to contact me or post their frustrations online It's all about doing the best with[...]

Jimi Hendrix by Moebius. And Lou Reed by Jamie Hewlett. Decades apart but joined together by influence... In Swipe File we present two or more images that

Having turned his back on the US comic publishers and their often questionable approach to creators rights, Moore found a happier home with Knockabout Comics and Top Shelf, where he has cheerfully produced a series of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novels that have outsold almost every other comic on the market. From the late 19th[...]

The fools. The WSJ resumes its love affair with comics – WSJ.com For a character who has been central to American pop culture for more than 80 years, Superman, it really must be said, is pretty darned boring Since 1938, he has worn the same outfit He has worked the same job He has hung out with[...]

Who will be working with Brian Bendis on various X-Men related projects this fall? We have some rumors and hints: From one of the same sources that named

Today, film rights are bought before publication, comics are written as storyboards, and teenage celebrities are given memoirs. The editors at the paper, however, have run a separate more prominent piece by one Paul Bignell, playing up the more salacious aspects of the story, just as Laura suggested they might Their headline? Revealed: Harry Potter is the[...]

I don't think a writer whose comic books have depicted the Queen, naked and humiliated, along well as the rest of the British Government has ever been

Before there was Bleeding Cool Magazine, there was Tripwire. A magazine published by Joel Meadows and, seemingly, funded by the comp copies of graphic

I knew I should have spent more time going through those lists... As well as Grant Morrison being given an MBE by The Queen, as part of her Birthday