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RIPT Apparel put out a t-shirt design by artist Ninjaink titled Voice of a Generation featuring  Optimus Prime voiceover, Peter Cullen, pulling the

Legal eagle Daniel Best sticks up the news (and legal evidence) that not only is Todd McFarlane Productions out of bankruptcy but has paid Neil Gaiman

  Gavin Lees wrote for Bleeding Cool from Stumptown last weekend; While the offbeat panels and overall community spirit are certainly highlights of the Stumptown Comics Festival, the greatest thing about the show is the embarrassment of riches that the small-press and indie publishers have on display every year.  From lavish hardcover titles to photocopied-and-stapled minicomics, there[...]

The following article may have minor spoilers, but the major ones have been removed to protect the innocent. Some comic book companies are reprinting old comics Others are giving sneak previews of what's coming up DC Comics however are running a brand new story featuring their top talent, and looking forward to the future We learn[...]

We've been looking at comic stores that, this weekend, will go above and beyond just giving out free comics on Free Comic Book Day Here are four more contenders. Ultimate Comics of Durham, North Carolina has guests Chris Burnham, Janet Lee, Brian Clevinger, Tommy Lee Edwards, Joe Keating, Andre Szymanowicz and Richard Case signing and sketching[...]

Some characters are too cherished too be defiled by mainstream superhero comics tropes, and their throwaway artists.   Mind the SPOILERS: In BATTLE SCARS #6, Marvel figures out the best way to have a movie audience-friendly BLACK Nick Fury ("Black Fury", how 70s) running around the mainstream Marvel Universe, short of actually performing a potentially controversial race-change operation[...]

More, much more, is to come. Scott Kurtz of PvP has warned that this may be the beginning of the end for established webcomics as the "big boys" notice the pay model they've been mining for the last decade and a half… Today, Mark Waid launches ThrillBent.com, showcasing his original new digital comic Insufferable with Peter[...]

"Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot. I shall grow... a Batstache!" Thank you Captain_Auburn_Beard.

Gavin Lees wrote for Bleeding Cool from Stumptown last weekend;     For close to three decades, Stan Sakai has been working on the adventures of Usagi Yojimbo — a funny-animal story based in feudal Japan, which manages to maintain an incredible level of authenticity to the history and culture of the country, despite the fact that[...]

Out tomorrow from Boom!, the final part of my Marvel Movie parodies, The Avengefuls, drawn by Joshua Covey... and this one written well before I'd seen

In a playbook seemingly taken from KaPow, the Grant Morrison convention, MorrisonCon, being held in Las Vegas has announced Gerard Way, Jonathan Hickman,

Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool; Okay, maybe not the coldest cities but it is pretty damp and miserable up north as I write this. Antony Johnston remains one of the best writers, not to mention best kept secrets, in modern English language comics He's as happy working in romantic comedy as he is action, has a[...]

Must admit I was a little disappointed to see some mixed signals on the future of Hulk movies from various sources over the past couple weeks. Even though

It's a great piece of original art. Sam Kieth drawing Jim Lee's Deathblow and Rob Liefeld's Bloodwulf as well has his own Maxx in a series that predated

Well, Rebekah Isaacs, Jim Fern, Nelson Ortega, Joe Kuzma, Sebastian Piccione and Neil Jorge will be signing and sketching on Free Comic Book Day at Famous Faces & Funnies in West Melbourne, Florida, giving away ten free comics per person. And the shop will be continuing activities through the month, as Free Comic Book May, giving[...]

It can be found in three parts online: here, here and here. From there, the event segued into a panel conversation moderated by Joe Keatinge.  The featured guests were Mike Allred; Dark Horse editor, Scott Allie; curator of the Moebius Tumblr, Ian MacEwan; and David Scroggy, who was Moebius's US agent during his time working with[...]

Bleeding Cool heard that the New DCU Zero issues in September, now confirmed by DC artists, may lead to some creative changes in their wake. Well here's a

Today we celebrate a Chick tract comic book, espousing the more radical evangelical Christian thinking as always, and jumping onto the pop cultural

Rumours Of DC Editorial Changes Circle Comics Industry 7 Buffy The Vampire Slayer XXX: A Porn Parody By… Josh Wheldon 8 Marvel Comics Make Agent Coulson Part Of The 616 9 Pixar Announce New Film, Reveal Title For Another 10 Joe Quesada, Joss Whedon And Colossus 11 Twelve Thoughts About Twelve Comics Today 12 Old "Friend" From James Cameron's Aliens Shows[...]

Worried that Marvel's big media release on Tuesday, May 22nd for Astonishing X-Men #50 and the marriage proposal therein will spoil your enjoyment... of

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; Another week comes and goes on Bleeding Cool, and now let us cease our mindless bickering about what forces are at work destroying comics, and focus on celebrating some damn good ones instead This week we'll be looking at Best Anthology and Best Humor Publication If you need a[...]

Fashion Week in Australia opened with this nineteen sixties Marvel inspired collection from the Romance Was Born studio designers Anna Plunkett and Luke

So I think I'm just going to tell myself that she's not going to see this interview. BobbyWatch: Jamie Rich web-publishes a novel, Bobby Pins & Mary Janes, set in the comics industry Start looking for parallels… now! You can download a PDF here… A large part of why Parker thought it would be worthwhile to hang on to[...]

Eliot Cole reviews for Bleeding Cool; FF 17 is a one-shot story, a ‘day in the life of’ Peter Parker and Johnny Storm living together.  One shots always

This could well be what that 2000AD website has been counting down towards, for tomorrow. DJ Food has posted the cover to the new 2000D, Prog 1781, which

He'll be teaching PUB 615, Comics & Graphic Novels this autumn, before moving to PUB 619, The Future of Publishing: Transmedia. Paul Levitz writes about his upcoming position; If you told me when I first sat down at an Assistant Editor's desk that I'd be trading in my typewriter, rubber cement and rubdown Letraset for a computer[...]

One of the highlights of Saturday's programme was the Heavy Ink panel which brought together three of the hottest indie talents to discuss the convergence between music and comics. Tom Neely is the creator of The Wolf — a silent graphic novel inspired by the aesthetic of heavy metal — as well as the publisher of[...]

A couple of weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran a piece on the About Heroes podcast, and their decision to run what appeared to be a puff piece interview with Rick Olney that talked about his history in comics, without at any point mentioning all the money he owed creators and the way he had treated[...]

PekarWatch: "Harvey Pekar's Cleveland" by Harvey Pekar and artist Joseph Remnant is to have a Cleveland book-release party at 7 pm on Tuesday at Big Dog Theater in Cleveland Heights. DiamondWatch: Want a job at Diamond? Tom Mason has found five open positions… PVPWatch: Scott Kurtz sees Mark Waid's Thrillbent as the future of comics. Webcomicers have[...]

Mark Millar tells The Scottish Sun newspaper that he wrote what became the Avengers movie. “Marvel told me years back this is one movie they didn’t think