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$250,000Watch: A social network system is giving out $250,000 grants to small businesses. And I understand that Third Eye Comics would really appreciate

One Brazilian blog which has previously shown a rather homophobic view of the recent gay marriage plotline in comic books, is claiming that there will be

By the end of the week, the agreement covering the sale of French publishing house Flammarion from Italian publishing house RCS to French publisher

It would seem horrible to compare Watchmen #1 with Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1. But it's unavoidable. I can't read this one issue without those twelve

Marvel will send their top 3000 stores a bundle of postcards advertising X-Men: First Class from Neal Adams and Christis Gage, landing on July 4th, a

On the left, the Cable series X-Sanction. On the right, the new poster for Dredd courtesy of JoBlo. In Swipe File we present two or more images that

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool all over the world... This past weekend I attended Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con.  It was a long con for me and

It is considered by many to be the finest comic shop in the world. But that's not enough, apparently. Steven L Holland from Page 45 in Nottingham, is

They said that you could read Avengers Vs X-Men #5, and no other spinoff comic, and it would make sense. They lied. Because reading this month's issue

Okay, so here come some Marvel Reebok sneakers... but not all are that obvious. Let's go through them. The Captain America Ventilator, easy. Wolverine

We've been keeping up with updates over DC's confirmation of our story from April that all their books in September would be zero issues, with news that

They haven't got round to mentioning that Scott Lobdell will be writing Superman yet. But USA Today has announced that Guillem March will be joining James

I speculated that the release of news today about DC's Third Wave of New 52 titles may be because the monthly Diamond marketshare results were about to be

TwilightWatch: The first two volumes of the Twilight manga, each comprising half of the first novel, get collected and published in November. DerryWatch:

Back in April Bleeding Cool first told you that DC Comics would run Zero issues of their New 52 comics in September, telling origin and early stories of

Lucifer was the Sandman spinoff that could. By Mike Carey, Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, it took the character of the Devil as portrayed in the Sandman

Dan Slott, Jimmy Palmiotti and Colleen Doran have been knocking back and forth the pros and cons of creator owned comics versus work for hire, sharing

The word from DC Comics is that, of all the Before Watchmen titles, it will be next week's Silk Spectre series  that will stand out critically above the

I popped into Gosh Comics of London to check that Bleeding Cool Magazine #0 had, indeed, made it through the Queen's Jubilee. Amd while I was there, noted

  We get it, gay marriage is the new hot topic in comics right now. Archie Comics, Astonishing X-Men, Earth Two, it's all the rage. So Jim McCann

The Dark Knight Rises is almost upon us. Which means its time for the kiddie versions of the film. Scott Cohn has drawn the kids book, The Dark Knight

"Batman Always Wins" is a comic internet mantra, spawning the similarly universally applied "Busiek Always Wins". Given the right time to prepare and the

Another Thursday, a new Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. And the moral centre of the comic begins to shift and

Ande Parks writes for Bleeding Cool; Lone Ranger#4 Commentary Page One The end of issue three left Tonto for dead and, a few days later, the Lone Ranger

So, where is the smart money landing? The front line of comics retail is always best reported in these charts coveing the past week, as retailers jostle

Okay, I gave it a day. Some people complained that yesterday's article about Alan Scott, the as yet-to be Green Lantern of Earth Two, proposing to his

The first sale of the day at Wonderworld Comics   A fine looking display at A Comic Book Shop   Nicely labelled at Austin Books A fine display

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Jesse James of Jesse James Comics writes for Bleeding Cool like an unstoppable writing machine. During Amazing Arizona Con this year I was hanging with

Chris VB, out new Arizona Correspondent, writes for Bleeding Cool; The first time I visited an Atomic Comics store, I was convinced that I had found