The upcoming Warner Premiere and DC Entertainment release of The Dark Knight Returns has been a long time coming, though I believe you heard about it here first. Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s comic has been divided into two films for this adaptation, the first of which will be released later this year, the second…
Phonogram: The Singles Club, the second volume of the series from Image, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, has now hit digital. The first issue is free, downloadable on ComiXology, but we also took this opprtunity to make it available free on Bleeding Cool as well, below. Open publication – Free publishing – More bleedingcool…
Joseph Glass writes for Bleeding Cool; So, this Sunday just gone, a question was asked at Kapow Comic Con in London; a convention that aims to be as big as the US conventions, but over in sunny old Blighty (though I did notice the sun pretty much eluded us this year). It’s a good show,…
At Kapow in London, during the Avengers Vs X-Men panel with Kieron Gillen, CB Cebulski and Joe Quesada, they showed off some upcoming Avengers Vs X-Men pages… one of which seems to show a certain Professor X returning for issue 6… We also got a teaser that Illyana and Black Widow will star in an…
You have to feel sorry for Lalit Kumar Sharma. An Indian comic book creator, he has a number of prestigious comic book works to his name. But he’s also a victim of repeat comic book industry conman Josh Hoopes or Joshua Hoopes. Hoopes “hired” him to draw a comic book from a script he provided….
Over the years, I’ve had a few messages from those who have met comics conman Josh Hoopes to say that he doesn’t actually look that much like the common photograph of him. And that I should probably find something a little more recent. Well, here you go. Gaze upon the face of Hoopes! And hey,…
Apologies to all Sacramentoans but Sacramento means one thing to me. The home of comics’ most nefarious villain, Josh Hoopes. Known for committing many acts of fraud against publishers and creators alike, from Art Adams to Joe Pruitt to TokyoPop, conning the most vulnerable of work and funds, he seems to flit from Sacramento in…
I just don’t know what to think. Rob Granito is creating a new line of comic books under the name Bad Boy Comics with his… creative partner Josh Hoopes. But not quite yet. His wife Alison tells me “rather than self-publish a comic outright, Rob and his partner are going to make some prints showcasing…
After a lot of back and forth, talking with Rob’s wife and manager Alison, Rob Granito agreed to answer a few questions to Bleeding Cool. I didn’t get any follow ups, and the answers were dictated by Alison. I also didn’t pay anything for the privilege. I last spoke to Rob Granito online a couple…
I know some of you will have little sympathy for him. But no one deserves this. But talking to Alison Granito, wife of Rob Granito, the scam has been uncovered. I already told you that Josh Hoopes had been talking to Rob Granito, helping him, sympathising with him, joining with him as painting me as…
If this was a plot in a comic book, I’d reject it as being contrived and ludicrous. And that’s in a comic book. So anyway, over the last month, on and off, I’ve been negotiating with Rob Granito’s wife and manager Alison Granito over the possibility of doing an interview with Rob . She’d put…
He seems to be the con artist who keeps giving and giving. Yesterday’s article looking at Rob Granito’s bogus credits that have gained him Guest status at Wizard World Toronto and upcoming shows, touched upon his swipe filery, but further research and information provided by you, the Little Bleeders who read this site, have painted…
Okay, this is shocking. Josh Hoopes is one of the biggest con artists in comics. Although to call him an artist is a bit of a joke in itself. I’ve followed his career for a while now and he seems to have a modus operandi that he rarely deviates from. He solicits for work on…
A Little Bleeder writes; Just wanted to say thanks for your articles on Josh Hoopes/Ron Runstrom. Whenever I get a new artist apply I check out not only the links they send me to their portfolio but also run their name through google (and possible add a couple of other key words) to check more…
We haven’t heard from the Sacremento-living comics con man Josh Hoopes for quite some time. But we have tracked down another of his victims. Indian artist Lalit Kumar Sharma. In March 2008, when I was writing for Lying In The Gutters, I printed these pages supposedly drawn for Ibrahim Amin by Hoopes before Hoopes disappeared….
Before Josh Hoopes closed his Facebook account (though accounts from his family members are still active) he added a bunch of his comic book artwork, clearly to impress his family and friends. Much of it seems familiar, Robbi Rodriguez’ Tek Jensen artwork and the like, but I reckon some of it is actually genuine. That…
45 is a Com.X project I’ve previously commented about that is to be published in December. Written by Andi Ewington, a journalist interviews superheroes about the possibility that his unborn child may also be “a super” as he uncovers conspiracy along the way. This is achieved by 45 illustrations, many by famous comics artists such…
This is the face of Josh Hoopes as found on his recently added Facebook entry. His identity has been confirmed as the man responsible for the numerous scams that have plagued the comics industry of late, destroying the lives of a number of comic creators, blackening the name of publishers and causingcausing distrust across the…
One of the most frustrating aspects of the Josh Hoopes affair is his constant repeated ability to go to ground and to return, often with the same phone number, address and contact details. Despite repeated attempts to pass information to the relevant authorities, he seems to act without interference. All I’ve been able to do…
Yesterday, Fox News decided to suggest that because DC have plans to reintroduce one of their iconic characters to the New 52 as a gay man, that meant that Superman might be gay. Today, the closest (and I originally mispelt that as “closet”) thing the UK has to Fox News, the Daily Mail does the…
What would you do if you met a visitor from another time? Michael Moran finds out when he sees a movie sequel that’s at least a decade overdue. Has time been kind to Earth’s shadowy guardians?
“One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June” That’s the comment DC’s Senior VP Publicity Courtney Simmons gave to ABC News from Burbank when asked for comment on the story we ran yesterday, that DC were to reintroduce a preexisting character into the New DCU,…
Thanks to Fox for this one. Honchos at Superman’s comic book home, DC Comics, said this weekend that one of their most identifiable (but as of yet unnamed) straight characters will soon be coming out of the closet, according to a report. No, and I was there. Dan DiDio, DC Comics co-publisher said that a…
It seems an age since C2E2. But an interview conducted by CBR with Dan Slott at the show has only just gone online. In which Slott stated that Marvel Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso has been contacting other creators on other Marvel books to ensure they reflect… whatever change is coming with Amazing Spider-Man #700 towards the…
Just as DC Comics is turning the headlines purple with the news at Kapow that a previously established character would be rebooted as a gay person, so Marvel Comics announced they have their own headlines in mind. Tune into ABC at 11a/10a E/C tomorrow as the hosts of ABC’s The View exclusively reveal a major…
