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Comic book artist Ed Benes has talked about turning down work from DC Comics as he looks ahead to his future. He has very much been associated in the USA

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran a piece looking at the Omaze charity campaign to help fund GLSEN, an organization that seeks to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in schools. But it appears that the campaign has been cancelled.

Here are the Top 500 comics book and Top 500 graphic novels and trade paperbacks as ordered by comic stores in North America from Diamond Comic

Comic Cons, Conventions, Expos and Extravaganzas may be the most public face of comic book culture right now. Some of them don't even have comics in them.

Last week's Infinity Countdown #1 by Gerry Duggan and Mike Allred showed a lot of Adam Warlock's past. But it also showed some of the future, a universe

The inaugural Universal FanCon is pitching itself as "the first large-scale, 24-hour, inclusive event that celebrates the diversity of fans, the diversity

1First Comics/Devil's Due may share a Diamond solicitation slot, but they are two separate comics publishers, as has recently been evidenced.

All the stories in Tales of Fractured Worlds are inspired by Huxley, H.G. Wells, and Orwell. The sci-fi anthology has a message about the world we live in, and at its core, it's a graphic novel about human stories.

Marvel uses DC Comics to fight for the Jean Grey trademark, recaps of the newly released Altered Carbon season 1, American Gods season 2 updates, and more geeky news from the past week!

Omar Spahi writes for Bleeding Cool, this time with his clothes on, For me, launching this Kickstarter has meant everything to me. I started this series

This is the Top 10 Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what are

The Albuquerque Journal has apologised for running what it calls an “insanely racist” editorial cartoon by Sean Delonas  earlier in the week. The

Alongside Harley Quinn (figuratively and literally), Poison Ivy is the most popular DC Comics character to cosplay as, at comic conventions. For pretty

Here are the top 100 comic books and graphic novels ordered by comic book stores in North America through the direct market serviced by Diamond Comic

The great info-cruncher Jamie Coville and favourite of Bleeding Cool has read 136 of the "Best Comics of 2017" lists and totted up who actually got the

DC Comics likes to enforce a few of its visual trademarks. Anything shaped like a five-sided shield. Anyone standing with a cape. Two letter Ws above and below each other. And a bat silhouette.

Get Naked, released from Image Comics this week, has started a revealing internet trend — and comic creators have started to actually get naked with the book.

ComiXology is the leading English-language digital comic book seller in the marketplace, and its sales follows many of the patterns of the comic book

Black Panther is out next week. There are obviously spoilers here, but not for the main plot. Something for a checklist, maybe, but including post-credit

Phoenix Comics & Games is a comic book store in the 109 Broadway E. building of Capitol Hill, Seattle. Recently, its neighbouring business Europub

I only just watched Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Been a bit busy. Took the youngest to an empty cinema in Shepherd's Bush. I'd done a valiant job of keeping

It's Valentine's week and love is in the air. And this past week saw Central London's Orbital Comics put on a Batman-themed pop-up show at East London's

Brian Michael Bendis has given John Siuntres's Word Balloon podcast the ins and outs of leaving Marvel, joining DC Comics and his recent health issues, over two hours and change. A regular guest on the show, this week, he gave them his all.

Action Comics HC gets the top spot more out of cover price as retailers prepare, but Thanos #16 continues to burn through printings and see retailers up their orders at every opportunity. There's a lot of uptick on Marvel Comics as retailers clearly think something is up...

A year ago, the New York Times Book Review stopped their comic book bestseller lists, measuring sales of graphic novels in bookstores, promising an expansion of coverage of comics at the journal. This has not happened. Now 450 people within the industry have signed a letter in support of the list.

The gap between Marvel and DC Comics continues to perform pirouettes in January 2018's marketshare figures, as provided by the direct market's supplier Diamond Comic Distributors.

Man's Not Hot was the British breakout track of  2017, from British comedian Michael Dapaah performing as the character Big Shaq. It hit no 3 in the UK

The film has been and gone. And Marvel still has a lot of backstock of the comic book series based on Stephen King's Dark Tower novels, which they have

Every month, Marvel offers retailers the chance to commission exclusive covers for certain titles — as long as they order thousands of copies. It’s an

Once upon a time, this story may have been reversed. IDW Publishing and Tokyopop have announced that IDW’s international arm will be managing the Tokyopop