Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, it’s the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Black Friday getting, but we still have some great releases. DC’s best book this week is Gotham By Midnight #1 headed up by Fawkes, Templesmith, and Jim Corrigan aka The Spectre. This moody, dark Bat-book is […]
By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to discuss this week’s upcoming books, speculating about where they are headed, and discuss their favorite storylines. Hosts Randy Young and Chris Hunter say: Thanks for pressing play! Another awesome week of […]
Black Mask Studios comic series Godkiller will get a trilogy of animated feature films according to Deadline. This will be self-financed and produced by the publisher. Godkiller was created by Matt Pizzolo, Anna Muckracker Wieszczyk and Ben Templesmith and first appeared in 2008. It’s the story of an escape teenaged slave who survives in a […]
It’s always nice to end the day with some entertaining artwork. And as Kodansha prepare for the release of the fourteenth volume of Attack On Titan next week, Ben Templesmith makes some Titan-inspired imagery. By being rather literal about the title. That certainly is a Titan. Find his prints, and more, for sale here.
We’ve had a spate of Vikings in the media of late. Well, that means there’s always room for another one. And next year, we can expect a new one, courtesy of Ben Templesmith and Shane Pierce. That’s not it above, that’s Pierce’s variant cover for Ben Templesmith’s The Squidder. Just imagine him with a not-horned […]
Black Mask Studios, the publishing/production company founded by Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion), Matt Pizzolo (Occupy Comics) and Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) is unveiling its second wave of new releases. Black Mask is coming off of the recent announcement that the series Five Ghosts, by Frank Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham had been picked up as a TV […]
We’ve got two previews for Top Cow books coming out on Wednesday the 24th. First up is the hardcover Chronicles Of Hate by Adrian Smith and then the return of Larime Taylor’s serial killer Zoey with A Voice In The Dark: Get Your Gun #1. CHRONICLES OF HATE ORIGINAL HARDCOVER Story/Cover/Art Adrian Smith An art […]
So, last year Ben Templesmith was replaced as the artist on JMS’s Ten Grand comic series for Image Comics. A work-for-hire gig for Ben, he seemingly went incommunicado after being sent a script. At the time JMS wrote, Most recently, we gave Ben a full script on July 26th. It is now September 4th, and […]
Mike Pecci writes: Title of project: 12 Kilometers Creators: The first major film release from McFarland and Pecci Films, 12 Kilometers is backed by the talents of some of the best and brightest in film, design and photography. Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night / Squidder); comic book artist Orlando Baez; Director of Photography David […]
You may have noticed there’s a new TV show called Gotham coming soon. I rather enjoyed the pilot. Well, that means lots of DC Comics with Gotham in the title… And the latest is Gotham by Midnight, by Ray Fawkes and Ben Templesmith. With Detective Jim Corrigan, better known in the Pre 52 as The […]
Dynamite is celebrating their 10th anniversary and one of the characters they’ve been publishing most of that time is Ash Williams. In honor of that they are putting together The Art of Army of Darkness. This hardcover collection features the work of: J. Scott Campbell (Danger Girl), Arthur Suydam (Marvel Zombies), Nick Bradshaw (Wolverine and the […]
By Trent Pitts Once a summer in a hotel ballroom in Charlotte, North Carolina, comic fans and creators gather together to celebrate art and battle over who will take the pieces home. The event is the annual HeroesCon Art Auction and it’s an event not to be missed for the comic fan. The auction is […]
I haven’t seen very many panels hosted recently at cons where a younger group of creators who are known for their work in horror are asked to express their feelings about the genre as a group, and articulate just what they find frightening and what their goals are in their work. Heroes Con once again […]
Funded on Kickstarter at the end of last year, to the tune of $137,000, The Squidder is Ben Templesmith‘s new work, and will be serialised by IDW from July. This all-new four-issue series finds an old soldier from a forgotten war in a post-apocalyptic world that has left him behind. He was one of the […]
Bleeding Cool’s Gavin Lees writes from ECCC, in Seattle. Ben Templesmith would like everyone to know that he is alive and well. He promises that The Squidder will be released in May, and he has photos from his 4am drawing sessions to prove it! Terry Dodson is hard at work on a new European-album format […]
This year marks the 15th Anniversary of IDW Publishing, and co-founder and CEO Ted Adams has a few reflections on his youthful obsession with books, working to bring some of his personal heroes to print, and the landmarks he’s noted along the way to share with us here at Bleeding Cool. His experiences learning from […]
Every week, there is quite a selection of new comics available that have been added to ComiXology via their creator-owned Submit platform, and here at Bleeding Cool we’re taking a moment to point out some of the titles that have caught our attention this time around that you might find as wacky or as intriguing […]
Steven Randall writes for Bleeding Cool: Wait, another Kickstarter Graphic Novel, with Zombies…..Seen it…Read it…or have you? At first glance, I’ll agree, this project is far from original, Zombies, Graphic Novel…Blah, blah,blah. Zombies they are everywhere these days. Books, comics, television, and even movies have Zombies shambling and stumbling around every corner of entertainment, so […]
By Spencer Ellsworth Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad tales of the death of franchises. Star Wars’ original home may have been Marvel, but Dark Horse has been building the Expanded Universe for the last twenty-four years, one Force choke at a time. We don’t know if Marvel will toss the DH […]
