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Ape Entertainment and Bolt Creative have announced that Pocket God have sold over half of a million Pocket God digital comic book downloads to-date, based

As Elke Pollard was painting Alan Moore's portrait, they reached an arrangement in which she could take his old computer keyboard (he was upgrading),

Earlier this week we looked at the Gold Titles for next year's Free Comic Book Day, including a Mouse Guard hardcover, an Image 20th anniversary book and

It bears repeating that at the beginning of the year, DC Comics's marketshare figures had slipped in the twenties, lagging far behind Marvel. That they

Chris Ryall, editor-in-chief of IDW, recently tweeted; "Freelancers, really, take this to heart: if you're writing characters you don't own and want to

Yesterday, we told you about Valiant's Free Comic Book Day offering for next year. Well now (through hush hush sources that you'd never guess) I can tell

The upcoming Disney Rush spins off five Pixar films into a single, Kinect controlled Videogame. That's five times the crazy arm flapping... so probably

Yesterday, assistant commissioner of trademarks in New Zealand, Jenny Walden, as declared that Superloans character Buck does not infringe the Superman

TeaserWatch: Next week, Bleeding Cool begins a twice-weekly video blog by someone... well, let's just say, a lot of eyebrows will rise when you see

  X-Club, out yesterday from Marvel Comics is written by Bleeding Cool's own Si Spurrier. Few who had their eyes burnt out by his original Bleeding

  He was Archie Comics' first openly gay character. Then in a future world, he'll take part in Archie's first same-sex marriage. And now... could he

A number of us older types grew up reading American comics with a running commentary from cartoonist Fred Hembeck. Whether appearing in the trade press or

Welcome to the second instalment of Jack of All Trades. I had originally planned to use this second column to compile a list of those uncollected runs for

Comic book readers have become used to having to wait an extra day or two over Christmas and the new year for their comics. But the day early shipping

If you want to start hunting for clues behind Avengers Vs X-Men, you might want to start here... a preview of Avengers X-Sanction #1 by Jeph Loeb and Ed

Recently, Bleeding Cool featured a letter from a Russian comic book pirate, requesting unlettered art files from Skullkickers creator Jim Zubavich, so

UPDATE: Well that was quick. James Robinson and JT Krul will write separate stories in Men Of War issue 7. Original story: Two days ago, DC mentioned on

For Bleeding Cool, Patrick Willems has taken the Jay-Z/Kanye West album Watch The Throne and turned into an indie movie. All dialogue that appears is

Towards the end of an interview with the Washington City Paper, Michael Uslan talked about his upcoming plans for writing Archie comic, with all the

Tim Pilcher used to work for DC Vertigo back in the day when they used to run a UK office. One project he worked on, that was announced as coming from

Valiant Entertainment is to launch in May 2012 with Free Comic Book Day, and a free comic featuring stories from X-O Manowar, Bloodshot and Harbinger,

AvengersVsX-MenWatch: Axel Alonso talks about Marvel's blast from the past. "The inciting incident for this event is rooted in X-Men mythology, but it is

So, I've read a copy of Scarlet Spider #1, the new title spinning out of Spider-Island starring Spider-Man villain Kaine, now rehabilitated as Scarlet

Si Spurrier (who has a new comic out today, The X-Club #1 from Marvel) gave his Remake/Remodel instructions out last week: LORNA DRAKE Bunty was a British

In his private blog, the publisher of Image Comics, Eric Stephenson, has come out with a rather strong assault against Marvel and DC. And possibly a

Along the bottom of pages in the new Defenders #1 comic from Marvel are a number of phrases that seem to hint at future Marvel storylines. Some are clear.

The plan was to give comic stores a week's worth advance sales of the DC New 52 Hardcover in the run up to Christmas. A week for stores to handsell the

On The Colbert Report last night, as well as announcing his intention to host his own Republican Presidential Candidate Debate, Stephen Colbert took time

I always like to be blindsided by a comic. One that gives me some pieces of information, holds it in the open light, but then misdirects me completely.

Bleeding Cool told you there would be bigger changes in the new DCU after issue 6. And so it has come to pass. The latest is Paul Cornell, who will leave