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Brad Ricca writes, If it finally happens, it won’t be the first time. Though long considered the highest plane of nerd Valhalla for comics fans, the San

Once upon a time, Nick Spencer was a Cincinnati politician, running a local club, getting heavily involved in city politics, and standing for election as

A few years ago, Stan Lee wrote a story for the Stan Lee Meets series, which saw Stan Lee meeting a number of his co-creations for Marvel Comics. Stan Lee

Unlike some comic books like Amazing Spider-Man #800, some publishers wait until a comic book has actually sold out before offering a second printing.

Every kid in Britain grows up with BBC's Newsbeat. The BBC Radio 1 news bulletin that gets in the way of the music but ends up educating a generation into

This weekend, we learned of the death of Nick Meglin, longstanding editor of Mad Magazine, who died of a heart attack on Saturday, aged 82. He worked on

According to this upcoming Wednesday's Batman Wedding Prelude: Nightwing vs. Hush, we learn a sticky detail about the upcoming ceremony.

Bleeding Cool Bestseller List: Doomsday Clock just beat Man of Steel, which just beat Amazing Spider-Man, which just beat No Justice #4. But it was close...

Back in April, I posted a personal story about a diet I was undertaking -- something that I was inspired to do after reading the life history of cartoonist, satirist, actor, and performer Willie Rushton.

Wil Wheaton's panel at this year's Phoenix Comic Fest might not have been what everyone attending expected, but it was definitely a panel that we needed.

Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, Bleeding Cool’s weekly runaround of the most popular stories on the site through the week. This was the week in which

Last night, Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld bought a few tickets to see the new movie Deadpool 2 from his local cinema, Cenrury 25 in Orange County, California. And by a few, I mean all of the tickets.

Kong On The Planet Of The Apes is a series currently published by Boom Studios by Ryan Ferrier, Carlos Magno and Alex Guimaraes. With King Kong. On the

I loved Afua Richardson's work on the comic book Genius from Top Cow, and especially how it developed afterwards. She missed out on DC Comics' All-Star

Today, CBS' This Morning show ran a feature with Michelle Miller on Marvel Comics. And she talked to a couple of the big cheeses. When asked about the

Greg Baldino writes: As much as comment thread pedants may pound their desks and shout about it, gender-neutral pronouns are here to stay. It’s in the

A tweet showing Stan Lee with his brother Larry Lieber and comic book artist Ken Bald is actually using a five-year-old photo from a 2013 Wizard World NYC report. There was nothing about this most recent tweet that necessary states it is meant to indicate a recent event, but it does imply certain things.

Donald Guillory writes, A year has passed since an armed gunman planned on bringing terror to what was then called Phoenix Comic Con. The Con was riddled

Robert Alvord writes, When I was 9, my older brother and I started seriously collecting comics. By serious, I mean buying each issue of a title as they

Much has been made of a recent tweet from Stan Lee's Twitter account showing himself, his current representative and movie producer Keya Morgan, and John Travolta. However, the photo in the tweet question was actually two years old -- and was originally posted by Keya Morgan himself on Twitter in 2016.

This were the solicitations for X-Men Red #6 and #7 from Marvel Comics for July and August. X-MEN RED #6 (W) Tom Taylor (A) Mahmud A. Asrar (CA) Travis

One final announcement from the ComiXology Originals Twitch show... the other creators they are working with... and the books will be announced at San

ComiXology Originals is breaking out its new line of titles on Twitch...  and this one involves an American sports star and is available now. And we have

A brand new jumping on point for this series, launching with the first issue now from Comixology Originals... the very first Comixology comic is now

ComiXology Originals is breaking out its new line of titles on Twitch... and here's one from a couple of friends. Ask For Mercy Written by Richard

Superfreaks, written by Elsa Charretier and Pierrick Colinet with art by Margaux Saltel has just debuted on the new ComiXology Originals line, all five

As seen on Twitch. As seen in Amazon bookstores and pop-ups. And just announced. A new line of ComiXology Originals titles, published digitally and

Police were called after it was alleged that two suspected gunmen confronted Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee over alleged moneys being owed to them, last night. And that one of them had visited the property in Hollywood Hills the night before.

For Fantastic Four #1, there are separate discount levels depending if retailers order it at 300%, 250% or 200% of their numbers for Avengers #3.

As we wait for news of whatever it is that ComiXology Originals is doing with Amazon and Twitch, another digital comics platform also has a new thing.