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Hush peasant! This is an article on San Diego Comic Con exclusives that are not for the likes of you. Unless you own a comic shop that is. Then, the more

Here's a page from the new series from Boom!, Freelancers, starting in October. Creative team, as yet, unknown...

DC Comics are releasing a series of blank variant cover variants of a number of prominent comics, one each month from August until next July, each one

Twenty years ago, Marvel created a new line called 2099. Based on initial ideas by Stan Lee and John Byrne, it saw creators such as Peter David, Warren

Tim Dillon, best known to comic convention goers as the public face of the Marvel booth, has an official title of Director of Merchandising &

It's San Diego Friday in two weeks. And here's what you might be doing... 9:30-10:20 ComicsPRO "Fresh Start"— Your day at Comic-Con gets off to a friendly

Well, look like all our speculation was wrong. It's Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe all over again for the third time... Punisher War Zone begins in

Earlier this week, I wrote how sales of The Walking Dead were making Diamond Book Distributors rather buoyant, helping the company out of the doldrums it

Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare announce their new comic together, Hallowe'en Eve, on today's Between The Panels segment with Grace Randolph for Bleeding

What is up with children in comic books today? Or, rather, this week? Picking up a few comics and reading them, we have Miles Morales hitting his icon and

Bleeding Cool has already reported on a new rumoured series, Astonishing Avengers, by Rick Remender and Jerome Opena, replacing Secret Avengers on the

More San Diego PR from my inbox... Warner Bros on new signing rules; Comic-Con and Warner Bros. announced today that the Studio will once again follow the

FataleWatch: Sean Phillips will be signing the first Fatale collection at Gosh Comics in London next weekend. There will be two hundred copies of this

Bleeding Cool’s  Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic books, two successfully funded and one

Dan Schreiner has a Kickstarter to put together a live action/animation 3D film showing Ariel and Helvetica fonts going to war "and most likely comic sans

I was wondering if anyone would set up a Walking Dead shop. Selling Walking Dead comics, collections, DVDs, ephemera, makybe some spinoff zombie stuff to

A few days ago, Bleeding Cool noticed how stacks of Guardians Of The Galaxy trademarks were being snapped up, and speculated that this means Guardians

Okay, I don't think anyone had this on their betting slip for an upcoming Marvel movie, espeically not from Disney Animation. But on The Grid just posted

This has been quite a popular suggestion of late. And I've now had word from a semi-reliable source that, yes, Marvel are going to do this. There was no

DC's new San Diego Comic Con advertising campaign... and Image's Experience Creativity advertising campaign that has been running for months. DC Comics

Here's a look at some designs for the new Pete Cannon: Thunderbolt comic coming from Dynamite in September, by their numero uno designer Alex Ross, who is

It's time folks... San Diego Comic Con Programming for Wednesday and Thursday! 6:00-9:45 Special Sneak Peek Pilot Screenings— Comic-Con and Warner Bros.

The covers for the sixth printings of Avengers Vs X-Men... that's right folks, retailers are still burning through early issues... will feature a green

As ever, second prints are over represented on the reorder chart, as that is the only way these are ordered, but Wolverine #309 with its $4.99 price point

Bleeding Cool understands that three of the eight traditionally distributed covers for The Walking Dead #100 have sold out. The covers by Todd McFarlane,

Filip Sablik is the publisher for Top Cow. Until the end of the week. He was promoted within the company from his previous position in sales and

KickWatch: Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick at WIRED magazine has launched his free 210 page graphic novel online. And here's the Kickstarter page for Book

Every morning I wake up to more San Diego Comic Con promotional activity. So now, so can you. Marvel Studios: MARVEL STUDIOS will be hosting its Hall H

Chris Troy writes for Bleeding Cool; Around this time last year, I got a (possibly drunk) tweet from a friend, a North Carolina local, yelling at me for

The new KISS comic published by IDW has sold out of its 24,000 print run. No doubt it will be going to a KISS-tastic second print in the KISS-able near