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Ernie Chan passed away last night, aged 71. Chan (initially credited as Ernie Chua after a passport mix up) was a Filipino comic book artist who moved to

Albert Moy sells Jim Lee's original art on his behalf. He's just put up the pages from the New 52 Free Comic Book Day volume. In which you get to see not

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; DC stayed the same in March, but Marvel broke the record for the highest percentage of female creators since we began

  There has been a suspicion amongst some smaller publishers that Diamond, excellent at distribution same-day superhero comics across the US, Canada and

It's just the preview issue. Only 40 pages long (up from the solicited 32 pages though). And priced at just $1.49 which must have helped. But that's not a

Here's Wolverine doing his mobile Tauntaun impression from Avengers Vs X-Men #4. But here's the big question that's been plaguing everyone. How did

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wP4BQhvPHk#! While shooting a commercial for ShootTheCentrefold.com using the actual Batmobile from the 1998 Batman movie,

Well, the word is getting there, and I think Bleeding Cool played its part. Retailers have finally worked out if they don't make an advance reorder of

DC Comics have opened up shop online as ShopDCEntertainment.com, selling statues, toys, accoutrements and graphic novels directly to the customer, cutting

If you're exhibiting fun stuff at either Big Wow or Kapow this weekend, do let me know. The Glasgow League of Writers (GLoW) will be out in force at Kapow

  We get a new webcomic episode of Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine today. Watch those crows in the bottom left

Dynamite will be publishing Frank Frazetta's Thun'da in a new series starting in August from Robert Place Napton and Cliff Richards (with a Jae Le cover)

Not so much the New 52, as the New 17. This is the list I've been given of comic books that will still be offered by subscription after their tenth

BleedingCool has been following how ShiftyLook has been investing in the comics industry of late. How it has employed studios to create webcomics using

The second episode of the animated webcomic The Random Adventures of Brandon Generator by Tommy Lee Edwards and Edgar Wright, narrated by Julian Barratt

HyperWatch: Cover for Hypernaturals #2 out in August by Francesco Mattina, Timothy Green II, and Trevor Harsine. StarWatch: Retailer Bret Parks, owner of

I love Mark Millar. Unequivocably. From Twitter: @mrmarkmillar when's the next issue of Clint out? Should have been last Thurs? — Steve Gittins

Jesse James talked to Brian Augustyn for Bleeding Cool; In January, I was at a Drink and Draw for the Amazing Arizona Con. I was hanging out with John

So what are you looking forward to next week already? A new Guild comic? The first issue of Resident Alien? The return of Batman Incorporated? Godzilla

   They are known for both working on Marvel's top ape character in Agents Of Atlas, one Gorilla Man. In August, Jeff Parker and Gabriel Hardman will be

The New Crusaders App went live last night featuring the new Archie Comics revival of the Red Circle superhero characters, delivering 8 pages of new

Marvel Comics may be about to make news for their first gay marriage in a comic book, between Northstar and his partner Kyle. But their parent company has

A number of DC subscribers have contacted Bleeding Cool rather annoyed that DC Comics have told them that they can no longer get their favourite books in

Brian Azzarello does seem to be channelling Neil Gaiman right now, or Robert Graves via Neil at least, and never more than in this issue of Wonder Woman

Marvel's Point One comics were billed as perennial comics, issues that comic book stores could keep on hand, ideal for when anyone expressed an interest

Greg Capullo once said that, when leaving Haunt, he had a choice between working on Batman and Wolverine, and went with the relaunch of Batman with Scott

I've never known Nick Barrucci of Dynamite Entertainment to miss a commercial opportunity he can hang his hat on. Now that the Dark Shadows movie is out,

I have mocked the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover for portraying a seemingly impossible and contradictory series of events in a variety of comics that, for

If there is a Big Bad of the Justice League, comprising Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Cyborg, then you can be sure

Now there will be some spoilers in this piece, I'll try to avoid all the big ones, but you are going to find out who wins between Gambit and Captain