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Bleeding Cool has run a couple of pieces, The Fifty Dollar Club and The Forty Dollar Club, recording recent sales of recently published comic books that

I understand there was another weather-based comic book distribution truck accident the other day, severely injuring two truck drivers. Diamond outsource

Avi Arad will open the Anaheim Wizard World Comic Con fans on Saturday, April 17, welcoming them to the inaugural event, as well as taking part in a

The KeyBoard Is My FuckMonkey: It's been a while since I said much about comics here. Apparently -- on the grounds that this is a comics-related column,

This is the Lucio Parillo cover to Queen Sonja #8 from Dynamite. Let's start by saying that the breasts here don't seem particularly bizarre. A bit shiny,

What is it again? Dodgem Logic #2, a magazine about stuff, by Alan Moore and friends. Cost? £2.50 What's that in American money? About $4. More with

Back in the Lying In The Gutters days, I ran this swipe file, between the movie poster for Vantage Point, and a splash from Pulp Heroes by Victor Santos

FashionWatch: theFashionSpot and Andrea Grant are launching a new twice-weekly autobiographicalish webcomic, Ready To Where?, about the life of a fashion

Christopher Handley, who pleaded guilty last year for possessing "drawings of children being sexually abused" was sentenced to six months incarceration

The Shorty Awards, celebrating the works of various Twitter users in certain fields, have announced their nomination list. And there are some familiar

Okay, that was funny. Since Brightest Day was first teased, and in conjunction with Marvel's more clear-cut Heroic Age, I've been describing the perceived

Italian site Comicus has conducted an interview with Marvel writer Greg Pak. And they got a very nice little exclusive out of it, which they are teasing

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran The Fifty Dollar Club - recent comic books that have risen from their floppy retail prices of a couple of dollars to

I understand that the following symbol, the logo for the upcoming Brightest Day crossover/banner/promotional thematic thingy from DC Comics... That's the

Greg Scott, comic book artist for titles such as newuniversal, Gotham Central, The Shield and Red Circle has a very different project to start next month.

Rabindranath Maharaj's fourth novel The Amazing Absorbing Boy tells the story of a Trinidadian teenager sent to live with his father in Toronto after his

Eisner award-winning Guy Davis ((BPRD, The Marquis) has drawn a one-off Judge Dredd story for writer Rob Williams for an upcoming issue of Judge Dredd

ListWatch: DC Comics lists DCU trade paperbacks and hardcovers coming this autumn. We get a confirmation on my big buy of the year, Absolute All Star

I said that this would be a $10 book by the weekend. I was wrong. Copies of Captain America #602, featureing an anti-tax protest labelled racists by one

I love running a headline like that one. Earlier this morning, I ran a piece on the most recent issue of Captain America causing some concern amongst

What is this, all new superhero TV shows at the Bar and Grill? Days after reviewing NBC's action adventure superhero-turned-villain-but-really-hero pilot

Here are seventeen recently published comic books that are currently breaking the $50 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase variant

Fox News has quoted Ed Brubaker on the Captain America furore that Bleeding Cool picked up on this morning. The latest issue of Captain America features a

I do like Dustin Nguyen's comic book art. And I really don't like the DC Source blog's method of displaying preview art as a series of thumbnails. It's

The movie Red, based on the Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner comic book is filming in Toronto right now. Starring the likes of Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren,

This is a warning to those who know comic book artist John McCrea, artist of Hitman, Dicks, Herogasm and more, specifically those people who may be

PoliticsWatch: According to the Publius Forum, Marvel Comics are using the Captain America comics to accuse people who attend the so-called "Tea Party"

Earlier today, Heidi MacDonald posted; Everyone was wondering when the Wizard World tour would leave the continent, but Gareb Shamus has done everyone one

The auction to name the hero character in Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's upcoming Marvel comic book Nemesis went for $8400 to art director Blake Morrow,

Nikki Finke and Mike Fleming are reporting that Warner Bros is about to announce its Superman movie plans - and they're giving them to Batman Begins/Dark