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Joe Glass writes for Bleeding Cool: Another day and another LGBT panel at Comic-Con International. P Kristen Enos of PRISM comics leads again, this time with a panel including Brian Anderson (So Super Duper, The Advocate),Charles "Zan" Christenson (Northwest Press, The Power Within), Dusty Jack (Scuttlebutt Ink, Mahou Shounen Fight!), Grace Ellis (Lumberjanes), Robert Paul (Little Rainbow Comics), Dan Parent (Kevin Keller) and Elizabeth Watasin (Charm School). Mahou Shounen Fight! plays on the magical girl[...]

Archie Comics had told us that Archie would die in the out-of-continuity-such-as-there-is Life Of Archie comic, that looks at a number of future and what

But what future for Alysia in Batgirl now that Gail Simone has left? Well, we assured that the character would still be around, just no longer Barbara Gordon's flatmate. But we got another assurance. @JustPlainTweets There will, in fact, be MORE LGBT characters than ever before. — brendenfletcher (@brendenfletcher) July 10, 2014 Okay, so that's no assurance on the[...]

@GailSimone at White House Forum on #lgbt & #disability talking about Representation in Media #lgbtd pic.twitter.com/111rxRMkwR — Lead On Update (@LeadOnUpdate) June 19, 2014 As it says above, comic book writer Gail Simone was invited to speak at the White House Forum on LGBT and disability issues, about representation in media And yesterday, that's exactly what she did. .@GailSimone[...]

Yikes! — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) June 16, 2014 It is an important topic, trying to figure out if I can make it work because we are in New York and scheduled to go home today. — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) June 16, 2014   I am kind of freaking out. — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) June 16, 2014 Last night when I got the[...]

It's been argued that the most important portrayal of homosexuality in comic books is when it isn't a mater of comment. It just is. Could this be a

It appears that, once more, Batwoman is to enter the headlines over the cultural and social mores of our time. Not only have we had the first mainstream

A Chicago-based political action committee, Family-PAC has campaigned for voters to tell Representative Mike Smiddy to vote against last year's proposed

 The Des Moines Register reports how local conservative politician Bob Vander Plaats has been turned into a comic book schoolyard supervillain Bull Von Ploots in a comic book starring superhero-schoolgirl-with-two-mothers, Mighty Moxy. Vander Plaats is also the CEO  of The Family Leader and a leading anti gay marriage advocate. The comic, Find Your Voice, was sold for $12[...]

Today, Lois Lane gets her own New 52 one shot comic book, Superman: Lois Lane. Well, he does turn up for a panel. But in the comic, Lois Lane goes on the

ComiXology carry a number of sexually explicit comic books such as Black Kiss and Sex from Image Comics. They are not available through Apple's iOS but

This is Adam Baldwin. Off of Firefly. He doesn't always wear the hat. Not related to the other Baldwins, he is a registered Democrat since 1980, but

So that's where Doctor Frederic Wertham went. The Associated Press reports that South Carolina is to remove $52,000 from the College of Charleston's

Timothy Carsons writes, I didn't think you deserved your Oscar nomination, Ellen Page. I thought Juno was an incredibly overhyped and overrated movie.

GLAAD has announced its nominees for its 2014 awards for the treatment of gay characters and themes, including for comic books. The awards usually favour

From pressure group One Million Moms… Alerting all parents! If "Good Luck Charlie" goes through with introducing LGBT content, then the floodgates will be opened for all programs on the Disney Channel – a trend that will be almost impossible to stop. Disney Channel has very few sponsors and advertisers on its network Care.com was the only[...]

But it certainly means for Marvel, for mainstream comics, this is their first superhero team who have been, to a man and woman… what's the best phrase? LGBT? Unstraight? Somewhere on the Kinsey Scale from 1 to 6, but not zero? And now it's come to an end Weep, tumblr, weep. Young Avengers #15 is published today[...]

"I was hopeful about the iPad's potential as a new way for independent creators to get their work out there—particularly LGBT creators, who often have a much harder time trying to go through traditional publishers—but saw Apple's content rules blocking relatively tame content again and again I thought they had gotten a lot better, but[...]

Okay, so this is from Afterlife With Archie #2. It's a big zombie attack, it's for teenage readers, it's separated from the main Archie titles. You're not

This is how they did it back in 1992, in Alpha Flight #106, by Scott Lobdell and Mark Pacella. And this is how they do it in 2013, in Uncanny X-Men #14 by

Bleeding Cool writer Joseph Glass writes: I've been working on my labour of love, The Pride, for some time now. It's been long and hard, and the journey has been fraught with difficulties, but me and my team work very hard on bringing our vision of a drastically diverse team to life. The Pride are a superhero team[...]

Brendon's Update: Before you get to Rich's story below, I want to include the preface that, according to many good sources, Orson Scott Card won't see a

Originally, it was meant to be Sarah Jane Adventures. After a request from the BBC to include gay characters in their series, the producers of SJA decided

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sfMe7CnDiU Grace Randolph writes; DC Comics finds itself once again in a scandal with its female characters! I share my

With the LGBT press picking up the story, and mainstream press around the world joining them, this could just be the beginning Could there be a reversal of policy on the way, as there was with the planned death of DC's most prominent black character, the Green Lantern John Stewart? It's not looking like it[...]

Newsbomb is the #1 ranking news website in Greece, with a reputation for being rather outspoken in a certain direction. A few weeks ago it ran an unsigned

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In today's battle between Batman and Superman from the New 52 and Earth Two past, in hyperdetailed and stylised gorgeousness from Jae Lee, we get an early

So there's a comic book. It's freely available on the web. Sunstone, by husband-and-wife team Top Cow artist Stjepan Šejić and writer Linda Luksic Sejic

Spoilers and stuff... Bleeding Cool was the first to cover the news that Batwoman, Kate Kane, had proposed to her girlfriend and police officer Maggie