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Gareb Shamus has bought the rights to the Cincinnati Comics And Anime Show, renaming it Wizard World Cincinnati and adding it to the plethora of shows

It's John Cassaday's cover. You know from Green Hornet Year One. From Dynamite. What else do you need to know? That it's written by Matt Wagner?

Well that was a shock. Pascal Brutal #3 winning the Best Album at the Angoulême end-of-festival awards - considered by many to be a rather average comic

In this issue: Godot arrives; turning your comic into an ePub; theoretical formatting for iPad/iBook; Valentine sales figures; and further Amazon drama

We mentioned this yesterday, but it seems that Frédéric Mitterand, nephew of former french president François Mitterand (himself a comic fan) and France's

DreddWatch: A while ago, Bleeding Cool reported that Alan Grant was complaining at a comic convention that none of the original creators knew what was

The Daily Star is reporting that High School Musical star Zac Efron has signed on to play Spider-Man in the new movie by Martin Webb. And that his HSM

Jim Lee has designed the dress for the Naples Comic Convention held later this year at the end of April and the beginning of May. Lee has spent

Is this exclusive art from an upcoming comic book/graphic novel adaptation of the biggest box office movie of all time, Avatar from James Cameron? A

All the Avengers titles have been cancelled. And the line is getting a revamp the month afterwards. But what, where, who, how, whither? Avengers Academy

Everyone knows that comic book superheroes generally get their superpowers from something radioactive. Well, in the Indian village of Jaduguda . comic

AngoulêmeWatch: The weather has been driving everyone inside. Watch out - there have been reported floodings in some of the comics tents around the town.

Traditionally Saturday is the busiest day of any comic convention. And it's no different for the world's biggest comic convention, Angoulême. As Cameron

Diamond Comics Distributors has informed comic shops of a major accident involving a delivery truck between Marvel's printers and Diamond's distrubution

SmurfWatch: Okay, Avatar has been accused of swiping everything from Pocohantas and Dances With Wolves to The Word For World Is Forest and Deathworld. But

How many people in the Angoulême bars can you see tonight wearing red Spirou hats? As the drinking begins, here's an earlier look at Angoulême today, all

Dark Horse are releasing a new trade dress for Frank Miller's Sin City shortly... and Frank Miller is giving out sneak peeks of some of the covers from

The Entertainment Tonight clip from before was only the start. Welcome, ladies and gents, to the full trailer for The Losers. And yes, everyone should be

Every year, Angoulême runs a 24 hour comic event for competing comic book creators. . This year's theme was "mute pirate comic" which a) means pirates!

The Angoulême Comics Festival takes over the entire French town, transforming it every year into the world's biggest comics convention. In its 34th year,

The Losers. Based on the reinvented DC comic book by Andy Diggle and Jock, highly anticipated action movie, with chaps like Idris Elba doing their

Okay, we recently ran a piece looking at the language and references used in Batman And Robin #7. But there is still a very strange panel towards the end.

Fantastic Store went well over a decade ago. Oxford's Comic Showcase went a few years ago. And now it's time for Oxford's last standing comic shop to

What would former star English footballer and current sports presenter Jamie Redknapp look like in a silly wig? The cover to Jack Of Fables #44 knows. And

The auction to name the police character in Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's Nemesis has been sold on eBay for $8400. The winner, not yet identified,

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A. That's the Konami code, used on a number of games to get special cheat abilities or a hidden surprise. It also

So I spent last night in the pub with the likes of Paul Cornell, Kieron Gillen, Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood. Apologies for any subsequent... lethargy.

BrainFart: I'm ill, screw you. Gripped by lugubrious fevers, somersaulting fuzzily through the Paracetamol Nebula, I have ditched the idea of Real Actual

So you've enjoyed Batman And Robin #7, featuring a run around London's supercriminal backstreets... but did you get every local reference? I'm sure I

Right now the Twilight manga graphic novel is being offered by Amazon.com at 55% off cover price Which is basically the same price shops will pay for it.