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Comics book writer Tony Lee has a few new additions to his biography for the Raindance Film Festival. With a new career emerging in film and TV

Stan Sakai'sUsagi Jojimbo, the tale of a samurai rabbit, has been charming audiences for thirty years. And in August, the comic get a new six-issue

We've talked a lot about the British Library exhibition Comics Unmasked: Art And Anarchy In The UK. But still possibly not enough. The exhibition included

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The final page of Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #1 has a line after its big big spoiler... Unlike DC Comics, Marvel have kept print letters pages for

Remember this scene from the final page of The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires? What a cliffhanger to end on. Well, in this week's Teen Titans Annual #3,

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool broke the news that ex-Marvel EIC and current DC writer Tom DeFalco would be getting an editorial role at DC Comics to

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

1008 pages. So, that's about fifty comics worth in the Geoff Johns Green Lantern Omnibus, scheduled for February next year at a $100 price point. The New

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V-Wars, the new IDW series seems to have benefitted rather well from Free Comic Book Day. In its wake, issue 1 that came out last week is now sold out at

Last year, Bleeding Cool reported on the story behind a Batman #1 selling for over half a million. The previous owner was alleged embezzler Anthony

Sara Richard is designing cosplay costumery. Or, "fashion designs inspired by pop culture." I thinkj they're rather fun. Such as these three examples,

Sam Humphries may best be known in the comics industry for his self-published micro-distributed hit Our Love Is Real, a rather outrageous science-fiction

If you are in London today, why not pop by Orbital Comics? They have a signing with David Lloyd, David Hine, David Leach as well as other people not

Marvel Comics has just relaunched its Ultimate line of comic books and it hasn't exactly set the market on fire. The new Ultimate FF was well reviewed but

It's Wednesday, it's new comics day, which means it's time for 36 Thoughts About 36 Comics' traditionally fabourite way of opening its column. Some

During C2E2, Bleeding Cool ran this image, flipped up during the Spider-Man panel, that seemed to show a future for Superior Spider-Man, the Doc

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie is out and Peter Parker is back in the brain in the body of the character in the Marvel Universe, after being displaced for

By stint of the book being set five years in the New 52's future, this is of course a changeable timeline. As Alan Moore wrote in his pitch proposal for

It would have been his hundredth birthday this year. Bill Finger is considered by most to be the co-creator of Batman. He wrote the first story, creating

From today's Original Sin #1, sent in by a friendly retailer. You know, I'm sure Pol Pot would want to challenge that. Or in the Marvel Universe, surely

Nailbiter #1 is published tomorrow. The Phantom group of retailers have an exclusive variant designed for selfies, it seems. Here is Wonderworld retailer

Last night, I found my way barred. Trying to get into Jelly Jungle, I found myself flummoxed by the three quests, one per day, ahead of me. So I called

In the last couple of years, Boom Studios has been increasing the number of original creator-participant comics from the likes of Mike Carey, George

It is clearly a terrible thing that comics intended to be given away free are being snapped up and flipped on eBay by speculators in order to turn a quick

Okay, so you know we ran the rumour of the upcoming death of Nick Fury in Original Sin #1. Then Marvel released this cover... Boom! But... isn't that too

@gregpak @McKelvie The first pitch I sent to Marvel actually was a Dazzler mini, fearfully. — Kieron Gillen (@kierongillen) May 6, 2014 Kieron Gillen

Lots of movies are shot under another name. Sometimes a nickname, sometimes a way to keep lookie-loos away from the set. Well, Star Wars Episode VII,

Rich Johnston: We start with the biggie, Letter 44 announcedas a TV series... This is going to be on actual TV right? I don't have to buy a game console