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DC Logo To Officially Launch This Week?
After applying to register a new logo as a trademark, DC Comics have three years to actually get round to actually using it. But I'm told they aren't going to wait that long. A relatively reliable source close to DC Comics told Bleeding Cool that the new logo was announced to DC Comics staff in New York[...]
Scam #1 Steals A Lead On Supercrooks – Exclusive Preview
It will also be available digitally from Graphic.ly, DriveThruComics, MyDigitalComics, and Wowio, and a second print made available for February 15th. A five issue series from creator owned publisher ComixTribe behind The Red Ten and The Standard, stores have received store branded or exclusive variants depending on how many they ordered Here are the stores in question,[...]
David Aja's Bloodshot For Valiant
Earlier this year, Marvel hinted that David Aja would be rejoining with Matt Fraction on a special Iron Fist issue of The Defenders. That didn't happen.
That New DC Comics Logo In Higher Resolution
I've been following the story of DC Comics getting a new logo for a month or so but, as with Watchmen 2, it's only when you provide actual visuals that anyone sits up and takes notice Such as Fark did today. One of the problems with reporting the trademark registration of the new DC Comics and[...]
Marvel Cheerleads For Comics To The Associated Press. Even Other Company's Comics.
The Washington Post, among others, is running a rather soft puff piece for Marvel Comics What's unique about this one is that Marvel seem to acknowledge that other companies are out there – and are helping. Publisher Dan Buckley credits DC Comics with generating interest and buzz in and about comics, that Marvel benefited from[...]
Remake/Remodel: Namor The Sub Mariner
Si Spurrier’s instructions: We’re going to do something a bit different here. Rather than taking an idea or golden-age character and reinventing them as a
That Other Post-Apocalyptic Comic On Sale This Week.
There's a lot of comic industry excitement for Prophet #21, published from Image Comics on Wednesday, a kind of William Burrough's The Time Machine, that people who want copies may need to stand outside the store before ot opens if they have any chance. Some people will be disappointed But maybe they shouldn't be Because also[...]
Dave Gibbons And Todd Klein's IT IS
Now this is quite interesting. Letterer Todd Klein has created a number of prints with artists like Alex Ross and Steve Rude and writers like Neil Gaiman
A Newly Discovered Brendan McCarthy Comic From 1980
David Hine, author of Bulletproof Coffin with Shaky Kane, has been writing about another hero of British comics, Brendan McCarthy's early work, including Electric Hoax with Peter Milligan But now he has reprinted an early encounter with the creator, by way of a 1980-published comic called Cipher, and a cover strip by Brendan, never reprinted since[...]
Swipe File: DC Comics And The Discovery Channel
This is the logo for the UK TV channel Discovery History. And this is a trademarked logo by DC Comics and DC Entertainment for future undefined use Possibly preserved onions. I asked an intellectual property lawyer about the seeming similarity He told me; Well, that seems to be a logo for a UK-based cable network associated with the[...]
Salt Lake City To Offer Comic Book Degree
Broadview Entertainment Arts University in Salt Lake City is launching a new course, earning student a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the field of Comics And Sequential Art. Why do I think Scott McCloud will be on the curriculum? KSL News reports that the Broadview Dean as saying "This program is built for people who are[...]
Ariel Olivetti Working On Batman: Black And White 2
Bleeding Cool mentioned late last year that DC Comics was creating a sequel to their previous Batman: Black And White projects on which eminent creators, many not associated with Batman, from Warren Ellis to Moebiusworked on short black and white stories for the character. Well, Ariel Olivetti, who recently managed to get out of his two[...]
Jack Of All Trades by Dave Wallace – Infinitely Comprehensive
But it demonstrates the approach that DC Comics seems to have adopted in putting together their recently announced Infinite Crisis omibus–and to a lesser extent, their recently-announced Absolute edition of the Green Lantern Sinestro Corps War story, too. Let's take Infinite Crisis first In case it escaped your attention, DC recently revealed that they would be[...]
Collectors Cornered – Looking Forward To Comics In 2012 With Michael Bracco
Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a different point of view and get instant feedback from real customers on New Comics Day, as we literally corner them and and ask questions about comic books and related topics Unscripted, reality CC. This week we ask our customers what they are looking forward[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: Two Sides Of Gotham
Two top stories about Gotham today, both involve comics only indirectly  Too bad that the Gotham by Gaslight Xbox pitch didn't end up going anywhere, that's a concept with loads of potential. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: DC Comics Gets A New Logo And Here It Is. Well, this symbol has now been submitted for trademark protection[...]
The Font Used In The New DC Comics Logo...
  The font used in the new DC Comics logo (above)… is called Gotham Ho ho ho I was asked why DC Entertainment were registering the trademark for such a logo well before its announcement Well, I'd never try to read the mind of such an organisation, that way lies madness, but maybe they are trying[...]