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Bleeding Cool's Gavin Lees is at ECCC. He writes One of the most unassuming panels in this year’s ECCC program was Comics and Healthcare — with a title

Bleeding Cool's Gavin Lees writes from ECCC, in Seattle. Ben Templesmith would like everyone to know that he is alive and well. He promises that The

Mike Deodato did this to himself the other day. So, here I go. Just posted to Facebook by an old school friend of mine, Rachel. She'd kept it all these

Straight from the DC Entertainment panel at ECCC, Jimmy Palmiotti has been talking up the Harley Quinn Invades Comic-Con International: San Diego #1...

I'm told, via press release, that Skybound/Image Comics announced at their convention panel at ECCC that Tech Jacket by Joe Keatinge and Khary

"There's no point at being at DC if you don't do Batman... okay that's not true..." At the end of the Klaus Janson spotlight panel at ECCC, with Jonah

There are the three covers by Darwyn Cooke for the serialised Wool: The Graphic Novel , adapting Hugh Howey’s Wool by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and

On the Colbert Report the other night, Stephen Colbert parodied the attempt of the owner of the Redskins NFL team to dismiss racist criticism by setting

At 7.30am ET, ping, a survey from DC Comics landed in many creators inboxes. We've been following the lead in to this for a few days now, basically DC

So, yes, basically, this is what Marvel will be spending most of ECCC talking about, Original Sin. A perfect time to tease art from the #0 prologue issue

Bleeding Cool is a big supporter of cosplay after my own Damascene conversion about seven years ago at the MCM London Expos when, after being a bit of a

Jim Lee is a keen poker player. He's rather good. He beat me solidly and I've never forgotten it. Going up against him is a heady experience for anyone.

Straight from CBC in Canada, our second look, and our first naming, of Equinox, the new Cree member of the new Justice League, based in Canada, in Justice

 This is the character of Solstice as she appeared in the heady Pre 52 days of DC Comics. And again. DC Women Kicking Ass have picked up on how the

So who is the burning Inhuman, who seems to have survived the transition of writer Matt Fraction to Charles Soule on the upcoming series? Originally his

We ran Jeff Lemire's tweet yesterday about announcing a new DC project with Terry Dodson today. Then DC announced that it was to be Earth One: Teen

Okay, so there are spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier here. Don't want to read them, go elsewhere.

Coming out of the retailer sessions with DC Comics ahead of Emerald City Comic Con are a few interesting pointers. Might be worth a spoiler warning,

Brian Bendis posts to tumblr, this is the cover to uncanny x-men 23. by chris bacholo You guys were so nice and supportive of the trial of Jean Grey I got

Dark Horse Comics are insistent that Eric Powell's The Goon is heading back to schedule. More to discover at ECCC, apparently, but here's the Jack Davis

It's interesting. Most people are going about their day, without realising that this summer they are all going to be going gaga for and alien rodent who

The process of a cover by Sean Phillips for Fatale #21...

DC Comics co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee have followed up on Publisher Diane Nelson's announcement about a survey of DC comic book creators into...

It's all about faces. We ran the Joker's Mask from the upcoming Death Of The Family box set earlier today... as well as what Megacon attendees told us

Recently Jeff Lemire concluded his run on Animal Man - and the whole book. Well, at ECCC starting tomorrow, it looks like his new book will be announced,

We know that, as with the Batman: Court Of Owls and V For Vendetta mask/box set, DC Comics will be publishing a Batman: Death Of The Family collection

We recently ran a piece on DC reprinting and replacing all printed copies of the Batman: Bruce Wayne, Murderer? collection at considerable expense due to

There are Craigslist ads. And then there are Cragislist ads. Such as the following... Now I like Howard Chaykin. I like his work, I think the current

Diamond Comic Distributors recently informed retailers of the Free Comic Book Day comics they could still add orders to, and of those that had all their

Back in 2013, Bleeding Cool reported the news, from a restricted panel at New York Comic Con that it was announced that Simone Bianchi was doing a new