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When Mark Buckingham Helped Make Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer Video

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Rich Johnston

So, I was in the pub last week. So was Mark Buckingham, artist on Fables. And he told me something I’d never known before. That, at the age of 19, he worked at Aardman Animations. As a tea boy and …

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Vertigo At The Bristol Comic Expo – An Unwritten Prequel Graphic Novel Has Been… Written

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Kyle Rogers writes from the Bristol Comic Expo, happening this weekend. Panellists: Shelly Bond + Mark Buckingham Mark Buckingham met Karen Berger doing portfolio reviews at a con, and she offered him work a year later. His first DC work …

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Pop Culture Hounding Bill Willingham On Elementals, Fables, Vertigo, Once Upon A Time And Chris Roberson

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Rich Johnston

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] by Chris Thompson It’s a big episode this week, so don’t say we didn’t warn you … First up, Taylor & I take a look at Elephantmen #46 by Richard Starkings, Shaky Kane …

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The Value Of Sending An Actual Letter To A Comic Book Company

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Redditor Ariel writes; Sent a letter to the staff at fables they sent me one of the best gifts I’ve ever gotten. Cue everyone hitting the pen and paper and looking up actual street addresses…

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Cammy’s Covers – From Avengers Arena to The Unwritten

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool Fables #124 by Joao Ruas I must say, Sir Bufkin looks rather dashing on this cover. His face shows years of battle, while his greatness radiates behind him like the most epic halo imaginable. …

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The Walking Dead Makes The Angoulême Official Selection For 2013, As Well As Fables, Dockwood, Big Questions And Daytripper

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The 40th Angoulême Festival has published its official selection of titles for the year, which form a shortlist for the Awards given out in the show in 2013. For the English-speaking comics industry, notable choices in the Official Selection includes …

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Cammy’s Covers – From The Shadow To Hellblazer

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Cameron Hatheway writes; The Shadow #8 (Variant) by Tim Bradstreet Remember that hilarious film of the same name a while back starring Alec Baldwin? Yeah, let’s forget about that movie and focus on this awesome cover instead! It reminds me …

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Fables To Appear In Unwritten

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Mike Greear writes for Bleeding Cool from NYCC at the Vertigo panel According to Bill Willingham, issue 50 of the Mike Carey-penned series, “The Unwritten,” will begin an event that sees characters from “Fables” come over into Carey’s book. Willingham …

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Last Week’s Comics In Nineteen Panels

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Dr Manolis V writes; The internet’s most opinionated and greek comics column. This week: the all-new all-obnoxious SHAZAM, Guillem March’s answer to the Catwoman #0 debacle, Princess Amethyst and a whole mess of Robins and retcons (they do seem to …

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Review: Fairest #7

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Louis Falcetti writes for Bleeding Cool; The most recent Fables spinoff, Fairest, has been until now a somewhat insular affair. It’s not that it hasn’t been good, not at all. From the Adam Hughes covers to the Phil Jiminez pencils …

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Amazing Spider-Man Fiftieth Anniversary Smashes Through The Reorder Charts As Well As The Decades

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The announcement of the Marcos Martin variant decades covers for Amazing Spider-Man #692 has seen them rocket to the top of the advance rorder chart, along with the standard fiftieth anniversary issue. Rorschach #1 is also challenging them for the …

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Fables: Willingham’s Last San Diego And FablesCon Announcements

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Rich Johnston

  Louis Falcetti writes for Bleeding Cool. The Fables Forum is always a weird, wild time, as ringmaster (or leader?) Bill Willingham zings his extended team members, editor, fans and sometimes other panels. Like many panels, it’s an opportunity to …

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Steven Sadowski And Phil Jimenez On Fairest… And This Is Bill Willingham’s Last San Diego Comic Con

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Bleeding Cool reporter Peter Svensson told me yesterday that the new Fairest arc will have Steven Sadowski on pencils and Phil Jimenez inks on the comic. I also understand that Fairest and Fables creator Bill Willingham will announce at the …

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A Final Fable For Japan

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

    Matthew Funk writes for Bleeding Cool; The third and final book in the Fables for Japan digital anthology series has just been released. Along with the first two books in the series, theyare definitely worth your attention for …

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Now DC Comics Fires Chris Roberson Off Fairest

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Remember that old line “You can’t fire me, I quit!” DC Comics has just done the opposite. “You can’t quit, we fire you.” Earlier this week, Chris Roberson announced on Twitter that he was going to quit DC Comics as …

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Chrissie Zullo – More Fables And Hack/Slash

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Rich Johnston

 Gavin Lees attending ECCC for Bleeding Cool. He spoke to everyone! Chrissie Zullo is something of a triple-threat in mainstream comics: young, talented and female. She’s exactly the type of creator that readers are demanding, but Marvel and DC don’t …

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Bill Willingham On Sex, Death And Politics

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Gavin Lees wrote for Bleeding Cool from ECCC; Bill Willingham is enjoying runaway success with his series, Fables, which has just recently debuted a new spin-off series, Fairest.  He is also something of an anomaly, being one of the few …

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ECCC: The Vertigo New Blood Panels – And The End Of iZombie

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Kelly Sean writes for Bleeding Cool from ECCC; In attendance we have Eric Trautmann, Steve Lieber, Brandon Jerwa, Shelly Bond, Bill Willingham, Mike Allred and Dustin Nguyen. Having technical difficulties with the laptop to projector no slides yet. Shooters is …

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