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Dan Panosian posted on Facebook, This guy, Benjamin Spark, has placed my Danger Girl cover over Darwyn Cooke's panels and is calling it fine art... I love

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: This week we went through our experimental stage! (It's a little scary) Foxy got to interview Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt and Bill Crabtree of The Sixth Gun! Some really[...]

By Olly MacNamee [*This review contains mild spoilers] What struck me as I read Longship (from Time Bomb Comics) was the purposefully slow, mellow pacing of this tale which is appropriate for its subject matter: the unorthodox funeral for a father who is remembered by his son as a determined, strong-willed individual who, thanks to forward thinking,[...]

How have you found the process? JHF: Terrific.  They know what they want, and they know who they want to do it.  Once you get the gig, it's your gig to do with what you want, and that's a great way to get some very, very unique and cool comics. BB: So we have what is being billed[...]

By David Holloway Since my last report from down here in late 2012, it's fair to say that the Australian Comics biz is on the improve Reflecting the worldwide resurgence in comic sales, there's a small but dedicated bunch making inroads, alongside a new cohort of artists and writers Here's a small sample of creators I've[...]

To me this sounds like Blurb has acquired some, if not all, of the software we used to convert comics into eBooks I can't imagine that came cheap Having seen the results of Micah's flagrantly disturbing accounting practices, I'd be inclined to say he and several other key execs have walked away with a pile[...]

A Big Trouble in Little China comic was announced by Boom! at this year's ComicsPRO Annual Meeting and made a big splash online There haven't been any new stories told in the world of the cult film since its release in 1986 and apparently fans have been clamoring for more Jack Burton[...]

Harbinger #23 hits stands tomorrow, and, as you might have noticed, Valiant has been playing a bit coy with this issue, the central installment of the

If you are a fan of Sci Fi then you want to pick up Bleeding Cool Magazine #10 in comic shops today. Bleeding Cool Magazine's Science Fiction Spectacular issue returns with a look at the best in Sci-fi in comics, film, and television! Join us to enter Dark Horse's world of Alien with coverage on their biggest new[...]

Though as they still had differences, Gerber woule engineer an unofficial crossover with Image Comics' Savage Dragon – and in doing so see Howard kidnapped and renamed in the Image Universe, and a clone sent back to Marvel. Decades later, archivist Robert Stanley Martin has done the heavy lifting in collating the legal paperwork from that time, from[...]

From today's Chew/Revival crossover... an interesting flipbook that has two separate crossovers between the cast of each book, in their own separate and

Interesting Drug has come to the right place if they're looking for weird people… welcome to a few thoughts about a few of today's comics. Jim Gordon there, world class diver, fully clothed, feet down, from the top of a Gotham skyscraper, in today's Batman #31. Nightwing has a fashion dilemma in Nightwing #30. Amanda Waller meets a[...]

In a press release, Diamond Comic Distribution and digital publisher Trajectory Inc have announced agreement to publish comics distributed by Diamond as digital comics, internationally. Diamond recently announced an end to their own Diamond Digital line, and this looks like an intriguing third party replacement for that initiative. Trajectory will produce the digital comics in Beijing and[...]

Got a nice collection of four new books from Dynamite due out this week. The first issue of the Gold Key character Doctor Spektor: Master Of The Occult,

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! This week Image gave us some new hotness, DC had lots of Bat books, and Marvel

As we reported here at Bleeding Cool a few months ago, a play is in the works to stage the events surrounding the performance of the play Illuminatus!,

[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/The-Orbiting-Pod-X-Men-Special.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to another Special Episode of The Orbiting Pod! This week, things get x-treme, astonishing & uncanny as we delve into the world of The X-Men! Tying in to the recently released installment in the film franchise, we kick things off with a[...]

By Gary Turner So last time was a REAL challenge. We covered Wonder Woman. She seems to be a character with a lot of passionate fans from many walks of

By Alasdair Stuart Matt Miner is the brain behind Liberator, one of my favorite comics of the last couple of years Matt's a tireless creator, hard at work on the second Liberator series, Earth Crisis, as well as Toe Tag Riot, the story of a zombie punk band battling the Westboro Baptist Church The creative team[...]

But closer to home in comics, there's a certain red-haired woman warrior who is often known as the She-Devil With A Sword  Did Dynamite Entertainment or Red Sonja LLC force the title change? Well, considering the first piece of teaser art for the newly dubbed Sirens does feature a red-haired, female barbarian… it could be. Anyway, Sirens is a[...]

From the first press release for Grant Morrison's Multiversity... Comprising seven complete adventures -- each set in a different parallel universe -- a

Comic creators, film producers, convention organizers, toy makers... lend me your ears. (Yeah, I went there.) I’ve done a few articles so far about

Because that's what ants do. Which is what happens to humanity in Trees, the new comic from Warren Ellis and Jason Howard, published from Image Comics tomorrow The sticks are called "trees" from the human's perspective, high, mighty, going who knows where There is no invasion, aside from the after effects of just being there, they[...]

"Not so much pushing the envelope of comicbook storytelling as folding it up to make a nice hat." Electricomics Coming tomorrow The Facebook page lists it as an "app" so it may well be a comics app coming to devices near you. Twitter or Tumblr or Facebook, you choose. "@mo_ali: @johnreppion @Electricomics @leahmoore TELL ME NOWWW" there's a big clue in the[...]

This morning we reported that digital publisher Graphicly was shutting down and staff moving to book publisher Blurb. Michah Baldwin talks about the move

Cosplayer Nicole Jacobs writes about experiences of harassment at recent comic conventions. Jacobs writes: I have been cosplaying since September of 2013,

I don’t normally do reviews. Mainly because I’m a comic writer myself and I feel like critiquing my peers is kind of pretentious. So for me to do a review

 I'm glad we waited to establish our book's voice before we attempted our own look at childbirth, but there must be other examples of "realistic" birthing scenes in comics, right?  I'm sure we could all find at least six graphic decapitations from this week's stack of books alone, so there must be other depictions out[...]

Indie book publisher Blurb that specialise in allowing authors to self publish books through them is hiring key members of the digital comic publisher and

Taken on the NYC Subway, a poster for the upcoming Special Edition NYC Comic Convention, a show focussing on comics and used to promote the larger NYCC later in the year, and an opportunity for Marvel Comics to establish themselves very much as a New York publisher – and one that is staying here Most[...]