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…
One question asked at the DC panel today at the Kapow comic convention in London, was about DC co-publisher Dan DiDio’s interview with The Advocate. Specifically over the decision not to change any character’s sexual orientation when relaunching the DC Universe. At the time Dan stated they would introduce new LGBT characters rather than switch…
At Kapow’s Image Comics panel this morning, with Eric Stephenson, Nick Spencer and Bryan Hitch, Jonathan Ross stated that he had plans to launch a comic book podcast, because of his contacts in media and comics. He also talked about planning new comic books with current collaborators Bryan Hitch and Tommy Lee Edwards but also…
“The most important thing is I want people to see the work that I do” – Josh Hoopes. If you are commissioning or thinking of commissioning work from one Joseph Jenkins, think again. Bleeding Cool and Lying In the Gutters before it have run a number of articles on the notorious comics industry scam artist…
Today is Rick Olney’s 55th birthday. Before Josh Hoopes, before Pat Lee. before Wowio, Rick was the poster boy for not paying comic book creators. And, more importantly, while other people who owed money generally ran off and shut up, Rick didn’t try to avoid the situation or hide from public scrutiny. He positively revelled…
A comics scamp not involving Josh Hoopes? It feels wrong, doesn’t it? Right now a man calling himself JP Silva is working his way through the comic store phone book. He calls store owners purporting to be a producer working on a series called Myths, Legends, & Supermen, to be hosted by Hugh Downs and…
I’ve managed to tie up two strands from differing Josh Hoopes scams together. One is that of Joe Pruett of Desperado, one of a number of well known publishers who paid “Art Adams” in advance for a book called Messiah, through the agent “Jeff Henzel.” He received a cover and some sketches, but paid a…
This is your cut-out-and-keep guide to my attempts to alert the comics industry of a major scam going on in its midst. Right from the beginning, we knew Josh Hoopes had a… legally-challenged record and was accepting commissions from publishers, outsourcing the work and then not paying the artist. But we never knew just how…
This is the work of Federico Zumel, an Argentinian artist. I think his work is fantastic. Sadly, it seems, so did Josh Hoopes under his recent pseudonym of Ron Runstrom. A writer commissioned work from Josh, Josh sent that work to Federico, Federico supplied a series of pages, Josh supplied them to the writer who…
Comic book conman Josh Hoopes is STILL sending out e-mails purporting to be from Art Adams. Here’s the latest one, with a new Wizard-related twist: Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:41:07 -0700 From: adamsarthur@rocketmail.com Subject: limited time commissions To: Hey there up and comers and Indy publishers……… I know you guys…
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool exposed the new fake identity and scam details of Josh Hoopes, as an artist Ron Runstrom, using other people’s art to gain commissions. In previous scams he has then commissioned other people to do that work, without paying them, and running off with the money. And so it appears again. For one…
There is a young man called Josh Hoopes. I think that’s his real name. It’s hard to tell as he has been caught out using a number of names, aliases, identities, email addresses and street addresses. But there enough common threads to tie them together. I first exposed Josh when he began using certain creators…
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…
