Editor-in-Chief at Bleeding Cool. Independent comics scholar and former English Professor. Writing books on magic in the works of Alan Moore and the early works of Neil Gaiman.
By Spencer Ellsworth Nick Roche got his start as a comics artist at IDW Publishing, illustrating and soon writing the company's incarnation of Transformers. He's best known for the incredible Last Stand of the Wreckers (co-written with James Roberts), a sort of Saving Private Ryan with giant robots. He has also worked on Teenage Mutant […]
Posted by Olly MacNamee With our recent coverage of Noel Clarke and Joshua Cassara new comic The Troop debuting from Titan Comics December 9th at a comic shop near you, we asked Cassara whether he could share the procedures he takes from pencil, to pen to printed page. This is what he kindly shared with […]
By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu When I met the fan-favorite comic book artist called Bengal at the Magnetic Press booth (thanks to the awesome David Dissanayake) during SDCC 2015, he was sketching cards for a fan. Soon as he was done, he spared me some time for the short interview below. Born in 1976, he has […]
By Chris Hayden In his new series We Stand on Guard, writer Brian K. Vaughan, famous for his masterpiece Saga, continues to do what he does best: Construct memorable worlds and interesting characters in record time, sucking readers into some of the most original and thought provoking stories available at your local comic book store. […]
By Olly MacNamee Best known as the co-creator of V for Vendetta, David Lloyd has just celebrated the third birthday of his digital-only ACES Weekly anthology title and I was able to catch up with Dave at the recent Leamington Comic Con where he was the star guest and ask him about digital distribution, anthologies […]
The Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They say: Foxi's Top 5 single issues for the week of Wednesday October 21, 2015. Books Featured: Marvel Comics: Star Wars Shattered Empire #4 Marvel Comics: Karnak #1 Boom! Studios: Cognetic #1 […]
It's the story of the "neverending battle between good and evil" only death is just a state of mind. It's also the first full length graphic novel from Locust Moon Comics, the folks who brought us Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream (a multiple award winner at the Eisners and the Harveys). It's also written by […]
By Olly MacNamee A monthly review spotlighting the best titles the industry has to offer. Well, has to offer me anyway. Other comic-book titles are available. Hushers: A Very Victorian Apocalypse (Markosia) Writer: Andy Winter Artist: Manuela Bassu Lebrino This may well be a very Victorian apocalypse, as Earth is threatened by impending doom at […]
By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. I think I've mentioned before that James Robinson's work on Starman for DC was the comic that made me aware […]
Cry Havoc, the new Image series from Simon "Si" Spurrier and Ryan Kelly was announced this week to much fanfare, including the endorsement of Alan Moore, from whom Spurrier continued the series Crossed +100. One of the series log lines, according to its newly launched Tumblr, is "Fear + Folklore + Firepower". Having spoken with […]
Cartoonist Jon Allen has been producing the online comic, Ohio is For Sale, since 2012, and it's now entering its 7th chapter, all posted online, but also available in chapter-based high-end mini comics at indie comic shows, particularly on the East Coast. Recently he launched chapters 5 and 6 at Small Press Expo, and is […]
By Olly MacNamee Ahead of this Saturday's launch at MCM London Comic Con, we present one of the additional stories in this horror anthology we told you about previously. All in all, and with stretch goals achieved, this all-new volume of Bomb Scares from Time Bomb Comics weighs in at a hefty 96 pages with […]
Today, I heard about a cover that Reilly Brown did for Marvel depicting Deadpool and Cable in the iconic Doc Brown and Marty McFly Back to the Future pose. When he drew it, he didn't know the solicit would drop on actual Back to the Future Day in 2015, October 21st. If somehow you didn't […]
THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS: Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz Insufferable #6 Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz (KaBOOM!, $34.99) By Graig Kent Charles Schulz passed away over 15 years ago with his monumental comic strip Peanuts ending it's almost 50-year continuous run the day following (Schulz was the only creator on the strip […]
Allen: Son of Hellcock, the humorous send up of sword and sorcery comics, is arriving from Z2 Comics on December 9th, and we have a preview for you here today on Bleeding Cool. If you missed our previous coverage of some of the art process on the book, Z2 describe the comic thus: …the comic […]
By Joe Cammisa [audio:http://joecam.net/SML/SML-e131.mp3] Monday night is here and it's time for The SML Podcast here on Bleeding Cool! Two more episodes tonight to light up your Monday and it's interviews all the way, a one on one episode as well as a three on three! It's insane! Episode 131 sees Joe talking one on […]
Bleeding Cool welcomes back the podcast Mighty Marvel Geeks, hosted in part by Mike Ehmcke, who also hosts the podcast We Be Geeks, which runs on Bleeding Cool on the weekends. Here they talk about all things Marvel-related, and especially what their top picks are for the Marvel books coming out in the week ahead. […]
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: There are sooooo many new titles shipping this […]
A campaign has been launched on Indiegogo to help P. Craig Russell restore his original hand-colored art for The Dreaming City, an adaptation of the first Elric story by Roy Thomas and P. Craig Russell. The work originally appeared in Epic Illustrated before becoming a graphic novel from Marvel in 1982. Russell has the original […]
During New York Comic Con, the first issue of Dynamite's new comic Grumpy Cat was released, and only a day later, Rich Johnston and I managed to visit the regal and adorable Grumpy Cat herself at Dynamite's booth at the convention. The comic, written by Ben McCool, with art by Steve Uy and Ken Hauser, […]
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