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A Tribal Revolution And The Geek Bar – Coming Soon To Chicago
The owner, Aaron Haaland, who produces a web series covering new comics weekly here on Bleeding Cool, explained that he started the Geek Easy because he wanted to fill a need that he had felt all his life as a self-described comic book geek. I just saw that there was an opportunity to make comics into[...]
Odd Couple – The Comic, The Movie?
By Louis Oddball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxZvl9hTxhA Have you noticed a lot of super hero movies at the multiplex over the past few years, or is
Gays in Comics – It's a Queer, Queer World At San Diego Comic Con
By Joe Glass Saturday at Comic-Con saw the 27th annual Gays in Comics panel, organised by the awesome Prism Comics, an advocacy and support group for LGBT in the medium. First things first, it is WONDERFUL that there is a 27th one…that it's run so long and become such a fixture of the con programming is so[...]
Watson & Holmes – After The Eisners
Brandon Perlow writes, It’s been a week since I got back from the San Diego Comic Con and it was busy as ever. I don't think that will change. It was my
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 3rd August 2014 – The Darkseid War Begins
It measures what are known as the Wednesday Warriors, those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. Justice League bringing back Doom Patrol and launching the Darkseid War pushed this book to the top, knocking aside the usual winner Batman Eternal[...]
I Want Comics To Make Me Laugh
Wes Locher writes,  The story goes that when Stan Lee was close to quitting his position at Marvel Comics, his wife, Joan, encouraged him to write the comic book he always wanted to write After all what's the worst that would happen? And y'know what Stan wrote with that mindset? The Fantastic Freakin' Four. There's a fantastic[...]
"They're horror X-Men, in a sense" – Michael Moreci Talks Chaos: The Chosen
With the success of the initial Chaos Comics relaunch by Tim Seeley and the subsequent Purgatori, Chastity and Evil Ernie series coming out of it, its not a surprise to see Dynamite pulling more and more from the Chaos Universe Now we get a one-shot, Chaos: The Chosen from Michael Moreci (Hoax Hunters) Byron Brewer[...]
The Golden Age of Manliness: Reprinting Brok Windsor With Kickstarter
Has Wolverine ever had a girlfriend who was a giant? Can he heal himself and other people because he has a degree in badassery and medicine? Does he partake in appalling orgies of killing? All right, he does, but whereas Wolverine can't remember his past, Brok Windsor knows exactly who he is. Created by legendary Canadian artist[...]
Reading The Book Of Dragons Again
Ultimately, such gatekeeping was unsuccessful—look at Tolkien and the current explosion of genre fare across our society–but there has been no great writer of children's literature that attitude has been more effective on that Edith Nesbit, an author all but forgotten today. Publisher and project editor, April Brown, is making a play to change that with[...]
"I'm Just Pushing The Escapism" – Jeff Parker Talks Flash Gordon
I'm sure we know a lot of the same people in comics, but how have we managed to avoid each other for so many years? JEFF PARKER: We actually had lunch together in Sherman Oaks about a decade ago, thanks for remembering Joe! We were at Earth 2 Comics and went to the French place next[...]
A Late Night Peek Ahead At What Is To Come For Revival
Revival, by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton from Image Comics, is a series set in a small town about a bunch of folk living in a small town who just. came back to life. Not that life has exactly been easy since then. But it looks as if there is likely to be a development[...]
Cyberpunk's Influence On Brian Wood's Channel Zero And The Couriers
Wood's surface influences of "punk rock" and cyberpunk are demonstrated in his aesthetic choices, utilizing the zine methodologies of early "underground" comic books and punk magazines and taking clear visual inspiration from the works of French comics artist Mœbius This is especially true of Mœbius's "The Long Tomorrow" (1975), a short story that had semiotic[...]