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For all you speculators hanging on every new Image Comics issue one with dreams of five figure CGC 9.8 possibilities to come, you're only getting one

Bleeding Cool reported on the attempted banning of the comic book Persepolis at a Chicago school, Lane Tech College Prep, earlier this morning. According

Andrew Mertes writes; If you were paying attention to Bleeding Cool news over the past weekend (and of course you were!) you know that this was a big week

There was an awful amount of fuss when a Tunisian TV station broadcast the movie version of Persepolis. But that may have been expected. The film was also

It's fashionable to dismiss the telethon as mainstream pap without a genuinely funny moment in it. But I think that's blatantly untrue.

I think I'd prefer, say, a super-pet month... but a villain month will do just fine: So what is happening at DC Comics in September this year? In 2011

Bleeding Cool Magazine #3 came out a week and a half ago. Next up is Bleeding Cool Magazine #4 and the Free Comic Book Day version. But in June (or

Coming up next week...  the new Constantine comic, Judge Dredd Year One, GI Joe Special Missions, Five Ghosts, X-Termination as well as the Simpsons

Now that we've seen the final art pages of Batman Inc #8, it's clear that a few editorial changes were made. Here's a compare and contrast of the

Okay, that was the minimum bid. It took around a nanosecond before bids went into three figures. And rising. This are the final pages of Batman Inc #8,

Andy Diggle is writing a new series called Uncanny. Not Uncanny Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, Uncanny X-Force or Uncanny Skullkickers, just... Uncanny. Drawn

Jason Browne writesl To say it is has been hard to produce my 136 page graphic novel called 'The Man With No Libido' and get it to the attention of the

Bleeding Cool has covered the difference between the Marvel oversized massive hardcover volumes of comics, and those published by DC Comics - very much in

Douglas Paszkiewicz, author of Arsenic Lullabies, has been to a lot of comic book conventions. A lot of them. And he wishes to impart his wisdom... So…

JManga was the digital comic distribution launched in 2011, seen as a legal alternative to the scanlation community that had dominated much manga reading

So what is happening at DC Comics in September this year? In 2011 they launched the New 52, giving every comic a new #1. In 2012 they gave every comic a

Avatar Press have published a number of Max Brooks' zombie projects to date, such as The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks. And now they are taking

I remember when Titan Comics solicitations weren't that impressive. A copy of CLiNT here, a Walking Dead Magazine there, maybe a Tank Girl or a Lenore if

Because Veronica Mars isn't just for Americans. She should be for the whole world, too.

Don't worry, Dave Elliott hasn't been exhuming corpses and attaching electrodes to cadavers.  But he is bringing back his Monster Massacre anthology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmdFvvznTy8 Think About The Ink presents: The Top Ten Supporting Characters in Comic Books! In honor of Supurbia #5, her

Dynamic Forces are selling a limited edition of Joe Michael Straczynski and Ben Templesmith's Ten Grand #1 from Image for the cover price of $2.99. And

Some people question why, one and a half years in, the New 52 is still called "New". Well, for one, it rhymes. Well, it's because DC Comics have a

I still think an event like C-Day is a horrible idea if you want longterm sales as a #comics retailer. You want KIDS to see CROSSED? — Vincent Pavey

Kim Thompson posted on unavailable comics for translation into English, specifically the work of Moebius. If you control the rights to arguably the single

We take another look at this week's highest advance reorders as retailers scurry to make sure they have got enough of the hottest books to satisfy their

So what do we know about Ezekiel, the hyped-up soon-to-be-fan-favourite character in The Walking Dead, following on from Michonne, The Governor, Abraham

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran an article about comic book buyers clubs, individuals who order directly from Diamond Comic Distrubution for themselves and

Skottie Young hasn't sold anything on eBay for years, the last being his original art for New X-Men, and copies of the B-Sides hardcover he drew for

by Chris Thompson It’s another exciting transmission from the picturesque haven known as Portmeirion (aka ‘The Village’ from TV’s The Prisoner) as Taylor