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Earlier today, Stan Lee and Gene Simmons took questions from around the world in a variety of languages and answered them in many more, at the Sundance

He's done gangbusters for DC Comics, taking C-list character Animal Man, whose return to the DC Universe from DC Vertigo had been lacklustre at best, and

This is the cover to the final issue of Battle Scars for April, just in time for the Avengers movie. Well, I guess we know why it has that title now. I

Grace Randolph takes a look at tomorrow's comics tday - but first, what is the impact of the Avengers movie having on comics? Should it have one? And what

On Thursday we gave you Kirby Genesis #0 and #1 for free. On Friday, you got issue #2 for free. Yesterday you got issue #3 for free. And today you got

Today, comiXology added a hundred new Marvel collections to their store. Giving a deal on collecting a series of issues in one digital download, the

We've all thought that Colossus, as a man and a mutant had a little something extra. And now we have solid proof. An extra one and a quarter inches. For

Bleeding Cool has been telling you that Marvel was to launch a new series of kids comics based on their TV cartoons for a while now, Avengers: Earth's

The Invisible Artist played on Belfast television last November. Bleeding Cool is proud to feature it on our website, exploring the history of Belfast

A day and a bit ago, The Order Of The Stick Reprint Drive went up on Kickstarter, looking to raise $57,750 to reprint a now out-of-print Order Of The

TheManWatch: Stan Lee and Gene Simmons will be at Sundance today doing a one hour live video chat, and you can catch it all -- and ask questions -- right

The writer of Chew, John Layman, and the artist in Dicks, John McCrea are working together on a new version of Mars Attacks from IDW, coming out in June.

We mentioned the Quentin Blake/Roald Dahl stamps from Royal Mail this morning, but also in the way are these stamps celebrating 75 years of British

Another wonderful short film by Patrick Willems aimed directly into this week's geek zeitgeist, from Patrick Willems as part of his Afterwards They Will

Kate Kotler and Elliot Serano write for Bleeding Cool Welcome back to our regularly scheduled geeky dating program... uh, column. We apologize for the

Of late there has been a bit of a battle of words over market share, sales figures, chart positions and the like. DC execs state that they don't care

Archie Comics has been through a number of changes of late. By launching a Riverdale series with a gay male lead, and putting a same sex wedding on the

Diane Nelson and other DC and Warners executives have launched a new charitable initiative, using the imagery of the Justice League to aid the hunger

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool showed you thumbnail cover images of all the Marvel comics for April. Or so we thought. See, Marvel are issuing a bunch of

This would have been the week of the DC logo at Bleeding Cool. But then the Russians all started tuning into our discussion of the ending of the second

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool discovered that Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Image Comics founder Rob Liefeld's collaborative book for Image, The

On Thursday and Friday, Bleeding Cool gave you free copies of Kirby Genesis #0, #1 and #2 by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross and Jack Herbert. Today, we have the

I’m travelling, so in lieu of a regular column, here is the treatment for a movie adaptation of Arthur Machen’s late 19th Century horror novel THE GREAT

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool. November was a solid month for both publishers, and Marvel had the higher percentage of female creators for only the

  Sisner Award winning Lynda Barry is to be the University of Wisconsin-Madison's spring artist in residence with the Arts Institute and Department

It gets sweaty inside Iron Man's armour. Thor's jockstrap reeks. I just don't ask what happens to the Hulk's glands when he gets angry. From Jads

StampWatch: Quentin Blake illustrates Royal Mail Roald Dahl stamps... LostPropertyWatch: Neil Gaiman left his Mac Air on a plane. Anyone seen it? No jokes

    It's been pointed out that Portland may have the greatest number of cartoonists and comic book creators per capita than anywhere else. So

Potato Comics is publishing Xeric winning small press title Freedom by Seamus Heffernan in April, now distributed by Diamond Comic Distribution. Set

Say you have an awesome idea for a comic book... where do you begin? The knee jerk reaction would be to start drawing... or writing a story. Stop! Ask