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The other day I noticed that a number of trademark registrations for the word "Comic-Con" made by Comic-Con International, the organisers of San Diego

We are live from the British Comic Awards 2015, as part of the Thought Bubble Festival. Thanks to Page 45, Orbital Awesome Merchandise, Gazelle and more,

They may have caused Archie's launch of their new iOS App to preview rather sweary and violent pages, available to the young kiddiwinks by mistake

A few slips between solicitation and publication.... UPDATE: Or less of a slip. The first piece below, although it was something that Marvel informed

The Erotic Adventures Of Space Babe 113 is quite a remarkable comic book. A small press mainstay on the British comics scene by self publisher John

It is traditional each year for the President of Angoulême, the biggest comic art festival in the world, to draw a poster for the show. And so this years

The rain has come to Leeds. Though, as you can see, there is some sun trying to break through. But Storm Abigail is on her way, it looks like it will be a

Robert Luckett writes, Yo! I'm Robert Luckett (Luckettopia) and I co-wrote the recent Regular Show OGN 'Noir Means Noir, Buddy' for Boom Studios. The

I'm on the train to Thought Bubble in Leeds when the word comes through. Due to a delay at the printers, Marvel titles Kanan #8, New Avengers #3 and the

This is Milo Manara, signing a book to a cosplaying fan at Lucca 2016, one of the bigger comic book conventions in the world. This year they had to reduce

WEBWITCH #4 $4.99 Cover: Matt Martin Writer & Artist: Matt Martin MR, Color, 40 pages, 4 of 5 Everything goes crazy as the alien assault with melting

Well that was fast. Secret Wars #7 out this week with a humongous print run that will no doubt see it at the top of this week's Bleeding Cool, has sold

War, what is it good for? Why for being the theme of February's Bleeding Cool Magazine out in February 2016, apparently... BLEEDING COOL MAGAZINE #21

Dave Sim is running a Kickstarter for his latest Cerebus Archive selection, Number Four, reprinting original artwork pages of the 300 issue-long

If you are launching a comic at Thought Bubble this weekend, feel free to get in touch... Richard Worth and Jordan Collver write, Together we are known

It is my guiltiest of pleasures. I may not be alone in that. Empowered by Adam Warren published by Dark Horse, the feminist cheesecake bondage comic, that

Archie Digital and Madefire, Comic Blitz, Google Play and now Scribd. It's a big day for digital comic book news. And next up is the word that Scribd is

It was born out of rage and frustration. The variant cover created by Southern Bastards' artist Jason Latour in the wake of the Charleston, South Carolina

I remember, when the current EIC of Comics Alliance (and previous Google employee) Andrew Wheeler and I got into a discussion a few years ago about the

Chris Sims is writing an original graphic novel with Chad Bowers, to be drawn by Rob Liefeld, Deadpool: Bad Blood. But hasn't Chris said a few negative

Local Comic Shop Day is a promotion arranged by retailer representative group ComicsPRO, for the day after Black Friday. In which participating comic

CBR has a preview of a number of stories from the Marvel parody comic book out next week. But I fancied highlighting two... The first by Jonathan Hickman

CROSSED VOL 15 TPB $19.99 Cover: Christian Zanier Art & Writer: Mike Wolfer MR, Color, 160 pages Comics horror veteran Mike Wolfer writes and

It's going to be a bit of a day for digital comics. The launch of the Archie Comics Reader App (I understand certain offending preview pages will be

https://twitter.com/Chiropterarex/status/664404414367703040 It's time. Almost. The best comic convention in Britain. Thought Bubble in Leeds. The Festival

Archie Comics is to totally relaunch its digital app with the motion comics publisher Madefire, called the Archie Comics Reader. The new app, which goes

With Cullen Bunn walking off Aquaman, some ch-ch-changes are in order before he leaves. Take Aquaman #46. Originally solicited as: (W) Cullen Bunn (A)

Playboy’s December issue hits newsstands this Friday, and include an comic book preview of Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie, The Hateful Eight. Take a

This is how Starbrand was looking in today's Squadron Sinister.  But after the Secret Wars, he is a little younger. And a little thinner. And he's found a

By Tim Hanley After the Big Two's strong showings last month (relative to their past performance, of course; on its own, 16% female creators overall is