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Mike Perkins has drawn a lot of comic books for Marvel over the last decade and a half. Thirty-one issues of Stephen King's The Stand. Twenty-one issues

Marvel has announced the full creative team of Tony Stark: Iron Man, the new series that will relaunch Iron Man after Brian Michael Bendis leaves the comic: Dan Slott, Valerio Schiti, and Edgar Delgado.

A female booth worker claims she was sexually assaulted by her boss when walking from the Pensacola Bay Center toward the Grand Plaza Hotel parking lot during Pensacon.

Announced at the Lion Forge panel at ECCC, Managing director of Lion Forge Comics, David Steward II had an idea for a comic. And coincidentally, happened

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported concern from the comic book industry regarding Stan Lee's current situation. Lee's friends and acquaintances report

In Malaysia, illustrator and graphic designer Fahmi Reza has been sentenced to a month in jail and fined for drawing a sketch of the Prime Minister as a

Announced at the Lion Forge panel at ECCC, Hunters is an original graphic novel with a bit of a twist. It's being created by... everyone. Or pretty much.

We saw that Forbidden Planet has a Jock exclusive cover, and Uncanny Comics are to get a Tony S Daniel cover, but who else for this most landmark of

In June last year, a fire broke out in Grenfell Tower, the twenty-storey public housing flats in North Kensington, London. 72 people died and an inquest

Quincredible by Mildred Louis and Selina Espiritu is an ongoing series starting in August, following a 15-year-old superhero who is invulnerable but a bit of a weakling. So being a solo superhero needs creativity.

Toshiyasu Morita is a cosplay photographer who attended the Afro Comic Con, a non-profit organisation who held the show at the SAE Expression College in

And DC Comics launches with a bang with The Terrifics, by a long way, the most successful New Age of Heroes title. Avengers also managed to beat Detective Comics, something unheard of, of late. And Saga monsters up the chart on its return ahead of its 50th issue.

Weird Al Yankovic drops The Hamilton Polka, we have a new image of Lagertha from Vikings season 6, why Michael B. Jordan really wanted to play T'Challa in Black Panther, and more geeky news from the past week!

The Vertigo panel at ECCC promised much, but it was basically what you read in that Entertainment Weekly article last week. And on Bleeding Cool two years

As 'Goes Down Swinging' is Dan Slott's final storyline on the Amazing Spider-Man comic book, Slott has only so long left for the teasing and tantalising of the Spider-Man audience over the cosmically annulled Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson marriage.

San Diego is more than just Comic-Con. It is also home to comic book publisher and multi-media operator IDW, behind comics such as Locke & Key, Transformers and Star Trek, and TV shows such as Wynonna Earp and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. And they are hiring.

Ben Quinlan writes: In writing comics, we are given an opportunity explore situations and options that we couldn’t in real life. In my current project, Black and Blue (live on Kickstarter now), one of the main characters, Mattaya, is conscripted into the underwater army, the Aquamarines.

Diamond Select Toys have a number of silhouetted statues of toys from Avengers: Infinity War up on Diamond's website, silhouetted so as not to spoil any visual reveals or plot points from the upcoming movie. But a silhouette can only hide so much.

Announced at ECCC yesterday, Shelly Bond's Black Crown imprint from IDW has two new titles to its bow: House Amok and Euthanauts.

At the Diamond Comics retailer meeting yesterday, Diamond's Chris Powell told retailers that they had all but sold through on the new Comic Book Spinner Rack they'd recently made available to retailers. But would be getting a lot more in.

Max Anderson has been Stan Lee's minder for over a decade. He runs Stan Lee's Collectibles, which sell a number of Stan Lee signed collectables, the Stan

We just ran the speech that Dinesh Shamdasani, e-CEO of Valiant Entertainment, made at ComicsPRO. The big question is, where will Dinesh end up next?

The photo from Entertainment Weekly showing the writers of the upcoming The Sandman Universe curated imprint was a little on the dour side. But we have proof at least one of them, Dan Watters, can smile.

Apparently, DC's rumored mature-readers imprint Black Label definitely does exist, but it won't be announced at ECCC. It looks like one imprint is more than enough for Seattle stages.

Here are Brian Michael Bendis's two new Jinxworld titles to accompany the old titles finding a new home at DC Comics: Pearl and Cover.

Marvel Comics recently solicited a new series aimed at younger readers called Marvel Super Hero Adventures, a five-issue limited series featuring kid versions of their superhero line. However, orders from comic stores of the individual issues have been low, and Marvel Comics has decided to do something about it.

Marvel has announced Mark Waid and Jesus Saiz will be the new creative team on a relaunch of the series. And they are taking him cosmic.

For May, and Marvel Comics' so-called Fresh Start, they will be smashing their records and allowing exclusive retailer covers for 13 titles.

On the day of release, Cult Classic: Return to Whisper #1 by Eliot Rahal, Felipe Cunha and Dee Cunniffe from Vault Comics sold out at the distributor

Novelist Margaret Stohl is to write the Fresh Start relaunch, The Life Of Captain Marvel drawn by Carlos Pacheco, launching in July. Disney's TV station