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Welcome to another Lying In The Gutters, forgive me, I may have gone a little overboard with the illustrations this week, forgive me, but it is a rather

The ballet dancer... The wall crack... And the sex toy.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGSBApdx5Q

Bleeding Cool reported this weekend on Barnes & Noble's move towards print floppy comics in June. More on that to come, but here's news from the other

We mentioned yesterday that Lauren Beukes has written a story with Inaki Miranda for the Vertigo anthology Strange Adventures. And asked who was next.

It's true, it does sound a little like Warren Ellis' Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island. But Lady Sabre and the Pirates of the

Science Fiction is big in the mainstream again this Century, with DOCTOR WHO and STAR TREK having a resurgence in popularity and various shows like the

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; When the overall percentage of female creators at Marvel and DC hovers around ten percent, it feels very odd to say

Legendary comic book creator Gene Colan is sick. And through long term friend and colleague, Clifford Meth, he is selling off the last of his artwork and

The Hugo nominations were announced at Eastercon this weekend. The Best Graphic Story nominations were;l Fables: Witches, written by Bill Willingham;

So the Birmingham British International Comic Show may have bitten the dust. But it has been replaced by its twin brother (or possibly sister), the

From Batman artist Francesco Francavilla's sketch blog, a look at Saturday's Doctor Who...

"Let's see who tries to kill us and work backwards" - The Doctor A spoileriffic look at this Saturday's series opener to Doctor Who, now with added

On the Marvel Live Blog on Friday night, Marvel announced that Rob Williams, of ComX and 2000AD, and now working on Ghost Rider, was to be a Marvel

Okay, this is where it pretty much gets official. At the Hellblazer 25th Anniversary panel last night at the London Sci-Fi Festival, questions were asked

BeardWatch: Regenerated! Happy Easter! - Paul Cornell at EasterCon. He's just this second shaved his beard, folks FCBDWatch1: Two Kings Comics in Victor

So who is contributing to the Strange Adventures anthology book from Vertigo shipping next month? The solictations say; STRANGE ADVENTURES #1 Written by

Bleeding Cool had previously run a story that Spawn collaborator Greg Capullo was looking to leave the Image comic Haunt for work at DC and Marvel to

Here's Brave New World Comice of Newhall, California's ad for Free Comic Book Day, coming up on May 7th. Nice Wonder Woman sting at the beginning.

A free comic teaching new library users how to use their system, using the narrative device of a zombie attack has, well, extended a little outside its

Former mayor of Sioux city, the Rev Bill Skinner, died last Thursday. In notices of his death and memorial, it was noted that he was mayor of the city

According to a number of Barnes & Noble employees in the USA, in June, Barnes & Noble will be expanding the amount and range of comic books they

ArtWatch: Tom Fowler is replacing Terry Moore on Venom #3. MagWatch: Tripwire finally claws its way back into Diamond's Previews. Under an exclusive

I am not looking at the post-credit scene from Thor that has made its way onto the internet. No, I intend to watch it, with wife, on the big screen later

This is what happens when I don't keep up to date with the small pile of comics by the side of my bed. I miss something like this. In Glamourpuss #18 by

Written and drawn in 1972. Only published in the APA zine Love in 1975. Frank Miller's earliest work, as scanned in and uploaded by Comics-n-ERB on the

Yesterday I told you that John Constantine was coming back to the DC Universe. And tomorrow, while Doctor Who is on, current Hellblazer writer, who is

So I've been talking to retailers. Quite a few of them. Asking them how they've been ordering the first issues of both Marvel and DC's big summer

Comics Launch Pad is a very different kind of comic convention. While usually comic book professionals attend conventions for free, at Launch Pad they pay

When Joe Quesada became Editor-In-Chief, one of his edicts was to stop characters from smoking. His father had died of lung cancer, he didn't want to

Earlier this week we pointed out that the DC Comics Presents: Legion Of Superheroes: Legion Of The Damned 100 Page Spectacular #1 (breathe in) reprinting