His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
I’ve long covered Mark Millar‘s grip on media, able to twist and turn them to his own ends, and building his career in the process, much to his chagrin. However it’s rarely a critique, it’s generally in admiration. Initially he used the observation that, thanks to the internet, the world doesn’t see a difference between…
On the left, the cover to The Secret Service #2, the new series from Mark MIllar and Dave Gibbons, entitled Basic Training. On the right, a Chinese bodyguard undergoing training. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or…
Since our earlier story on Mark Millar I’ve learned that the guy has made a bit of a habit of exaggerating the truth. Which is why it’s a relief to have one Millar tweet that we can confirm with photographic evidence. Director Nacho Vigalondo is currently in Glasgow for the premiere of his latest sci-fi…
Less than a year ago Matthew Vaughn was implying that we’d never see a sequel to Kick-Ass. Last month it was confirmed that, while the film is definitely going ahead, neither Matthew Vaughn nor Jane Goldman will be onboard to write or direct. The producers already have a new writer and director onboard, and according…
CLiNT Magazine from Titan Publishing has had an interesting run. Initially launched as a Mark Millar-themed way to get comic books into news stands with high profile names such as Jonathan Ross and Frankie Boyle for the UK mainstream market, the magazine lost supermarket and independent news stand distribution, though remains prominent in national…
Bleeding Cool ran an article yesterday on accusations that the upcoming London convention, Kapow, was a bit of a sausagefest when it came to comic book creators, based on the observation that every announced comics guest was, again, male. We also pointed out that, as last year, they would be female creators at the show,…
Story now updated with a “smoking gun” image.
I’ve been confused about the continued appearance of tennis balls in marketing materials for Nacho Vigalondo‘s Extraterrestrial since they first started showing up. This new poster doesn’t iron out any of the confusion at all. What I take away from this design is that the distributors in the film’s native Spain are selling it on…
Mark Millar has announced, through Comic Book Resources, the name, concept and cover art for his new creator owned series from Image with Frank Quitely, Jupiter’s Children. A twelve ten issue comic series created by the pair that seems destined to rock the sales charts. They last worked together on the Marvel project 411, with…
Once upon a time, Fox were making plans for a big screen adaptation of Mark Millarand Steve McNiven’s Nemesis. I remember it well, not least because Bleeding Cool were the very first to tell you when director Tony Scott became attached. It was also memorable for the casting rumours that kept bubbling up, often from…
What can I say, the arrival of DC Comics titles into the UK has been delayed this week. Not to worry, because I did get to look at all the Image titles… Now, you know those “Previously On Buffy” one page summaries at the beginning of comic books to help new readers get up to…
Bryan Hitch is counting down to something on Twitter. To Tuesday, the third of January. I wonder what he’s going to announce. Art from his new Jonathan Ross Olympus project? News that he’s going fully independent from Marvel? Thet he’s starting his own publisher – or joining Mark Millar, Jonathan Ross and other in…
Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…
