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With Comic Con International... or San Diego Comic Con... starting today, we've got this great photo from 31 years ago. Taken by actor/writer/photographer

Valiant has partnered with custom-painted apparel company Punk Your Chucks to offer a wide array of made-to-order footwear and accessories featuring

We're liveblogging the Image Comics Expo, you can read Hannah Means-Shannon's account here But some things deserve their own headline… Such as Kurt Busiek and Ben Dewey's Tooth And Claw. In TOOTH AND CLAW, a secret conclave of wizards brings a legendary champion back through time to save the world, with disastrous consequences[...]

We're liveblogging the Image Comics Expo, you can read Hannah Means-Shannon's account here But some things deserve their own headline… Such as Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein's Drifter  Mankind's colonization of the galaxy has left countless planets mined bare and lifeless in DRIFTER A space transport crashes onto a backwater world whose unique properties set the stage for a[...]

We're liveblogging the Image Comics Expo, you can read Hannah Means-Shannon's account here But some things deserve their own headline… Such as Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen's Descender… DESCENDER will explore one young robot's struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet.   [...]

Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, returned to comic strips recently with a three-day collaboration with Stephen Pastis on Pearls Before Swine.

We're liveblogging the Image Comics Expo, you can read Hannah Means-Shannon's account here But some things deserve their own headline… Such as the new comic by Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko, a collection of digital Kinski for November, followed up by new series Invisible Republic. KINSKI, previously a digital-only collection, both written and drawn by Hardman, promises to be a quirky[...]

We're liveblogging the Image Comics Expo, you can read Hannah Means-Shannon's account here But some things deserve their own headline… Such as Keenan Marshall Keller and Tom Neely's The Humans.  Apart, they are nothing… deemed by society as outcasts, misfits, losers, no good punks! But together, they are THE HUMANS! Follow Bobby, Johnny, and all The HUMANS as they fight[...]

We're liveblogging the Image Comics Expo, you can read Hannah Means-Shannon's account here But some things deserve their own headline… Such as the new comic by Ray Fawkes, Intersect. Bodies shift and merge, warring with themselves Blood rains from the skies A child's song is translated into toxic, thought-destroying whispers Everything is changing[...]

We're liveblogging the Image Comics Expo, you can read Hannah Means-Shannon's account here But some things deserve their own headline… Such as Rumble by John Arcudi and James Harren  RUMBLE is a strange book, that's for sure—like a scarecrow-Conan fighting in a Louis C.K TV show directed by David Fincher—with a supporting cast of odd characters, many of whom aren't[...]

We're liveblogging the Image Comics Expo, you can read Hannah Means-Shannon's account here But some things deserve their own headline… Such as Joe Casey and Paul Maybury's Valhalla Mad… VALHALLA MAD introduces a set of brand new characters: the Glorious Knox, Greghorn the Battlebjorn and Jhago the Irritator The series depicts this particular trio of fun-loving gods' return to Earth—Manhattan, specifically—to[...]

We're liveblogging the Image Comics Expo, you can read Hannah Means-Shannon's account here But some things deserve their own headline… Such as From Under Mountains by Claire Gibson, Sloane Leong and Marian Churchland with a little help from Brandon Graham… Set in the isolated country of Akhara, rival houses face off in the struggle for political power and military security in[...]

We're liveblogging the Image Comics Expo, you can read Hannah Means-Shannon's account here But some things deserve their own headline… Such as Rick Remender's new Image comic series, Tokyo Ghost with Sean Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth TOKYO GHOST welcomes readers to the isles of New Los Angeles, 2189 Humanity has become nothing more than a sea of consumers,[...]

A week ago, he learned that comics folk were getting ready to storm SDCC by coming up with movie tie-in recycled characters and the death of a children's character He said he wished he had been drunk of making it up. "This is still what passes for new to the whole majority of the comics industry",[...]

Gaiman's work and he asked me if I had any of Gaiman's Tekno Comics he could revisit I did. Today, Papercutz announces that their Super Genius line will be re-publishing Gaiman's Lady Justice, Mr Hero, and Teknophage, kicking off in Spring of 2015 with the first volume of Lady Justice. These three lines of comics were originally created[...]

Being a Doctor Who fan, I've been following the announcements regarding the two lines of Doctor Who comics arriving today from Titan, and managed to actually get my Wednesday comics on time while in San Diego–something of a miracle and no, I didn't use my TARDIS. Cracking them open, however pressed for time I am getting[...]

You know, I really thought Archie Comics had run out of ways to surprise me with their comics Especially after getting responses in the local press such as this. Bless them. So I'm not sure what they'd make of Sabrina The Teenage Witch in today's Afterlife With Archie, after setting off a zombie apocalypse by using the[...]

Avatar Press are making their presence felt at San Diego Comic Con in a big way, so get ready to choose your favorite creators and works for plenty of

This is what we're hearing this year... print it out, grab a pen and see how we do...

And it's likely that Titan Comics are going to make a bid for it any time soon, In a press release, the company states that the comic book  "will not be a clone of the show but will feature some all-new stories set in the complex and thrilling world of Orphan Black." The comic, as the TV show,[...]

We also take a look at four smaller publishers: Archie, Avatar, Zenescope, and Valiant. DC COMICS DC fell slightly from their April total, and was all over the place by category when compared to last month's stats In May 2014, DC released 75 comic books featuring 684 credited creators, 603 men and 81 women Here are their[...]

Renewed or a second season as well, so they'd better catch up soon. So… what sins have you been undertaking today? Comics courtesy of Yesteryear Comics, San Diego. Hosting a signing with Sheltered's Johnnie Christmas from 9am to 1pm today and with Jamie Tyndall from 4pm to 7pm. [...]

Okay, now you're asking who is this Andrew Hussie guy, and what is this "Midas Flesh #8" anyways? Midas Flesh is one of those rare comics that manages to balance being all-ages appropriate with being a fun comic that adults can thoroughly enjoy and love It's a sci-fi story that follows three teenagers as they explore[...]

The highest frequency of attendance among any subgroup is female manga/anime superfans: 19% say they will go to 5 or more fan events this year. 63% of male respondents and 51% of females have been attending cons for 3 years or more, with the 10+ year attendees (13% of the sample) tending to identify as superfans[...]

We've got a double shot of exclusive Dynamite previews here today and both these books are on your retailer's shelves this morning as well. Solar: Man of

The last teaser before Papercutz' big, and we mean BIG announcement regarding an addition to their Super Genius line of adult-geared comics Stay tuned this afternoon for a quite simply massive reveal. For now, you have one more hint to chew over 20 years later Acclaimed Storyteller Justice Come on–you must be getting close to the[...]

It's been a popular theory of superheroic deconstruction that Batman is to blame for his own rogues gallery. But today, there is a different explanation for his role in the DC universe, delivered by Scott Snyder. The yellow logo on Batman's chest was explained as a kevlar-enhanced way to draw away the firepower from other, less well[...]

And yet there won't be that many people who have an up close and personal experience of this culture-shaper at the con so the few engagements he's able to make become that much more sought after. One of them is, undoubtedly, his signing of his own comics at Avatar Press's booth (#2701 front and center on[...]

Will Romine writes for Bleeding Cool Hello Friends! I’m in San Diego now, 23 hours away from preview night.  In my five years attending SDCC, I have

DC Comics has proclaimed July 23 Batman Day, but it looks like Superman is about to steal just a little bit of that spotlight, at least as far as vintage comic book collectors are concerned  Because 76 years after publication, Action Comics #1 can still make news  That comic, featuring the first appearance of Superman[...]