Advance reorders time! Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of
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After Dean Cain went on Fox News to complain about a Captain America comic book that he hadn't read, for containing aspects that it didn't contain, sales
This week's Fantastic Four #34 by Dan Slott and RB Silva from Marvel Comics concludes The Bride Of Doom storyline which has seen Doctor Doom announce his
So five big things happened at the Hellfire Gala. The mutants of Krakoa terraformed Mars as a new home for Arakko, altering the power balance of the solar
Back in the Kevin Smith, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti run on Daredevil, Quentin Beck, Mysterio shot himself in the head, after failing to turn
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, August the 14th. Or at least it is meant to be. Diamond UK has just informed British and European stores that this is no
Earlier this year, Thought Bubble, the Yorkshire comic book festival that has become the premiere comic convention in Britain for comic creators to
Welcome to the Daily LITG. The world can seem like a terrible and strange place sometimes, but there are highlights. At Bleeding Cool, you can still read
Scout Comics has two big launches for October, Swamp Dogs and Tales From The Fantastical Crime Unit, as well as the return of Headless and North Bend for
The other week, Bleeding Cool ran a guide to graphic novels that have been sold by agents to book publishers over the last couple of years. We have been
Oh Brother, is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Australian autobiographical cartoonist Georgina Chadderton that has been picked up simultaneously by
Meet Kal and Cosmo, on Kloud 9, coming to a bookstore or comic shop near you - in a couple of years, anyway. IDW Publishing is getting into the YA graphic
Mochikoa is a new three-book debut young reader graphic novel series written by JT Petty and drawn by Boya Sun, that has been acquired by Mark Siegel at
President David Rhodes of the New York School of Visual Arts has announced Viktor Koen as the new department chair of their BFA Illustration and BFA
The concept of the multiverse entered superhero comic books with The Flash Of Two Worlds and began an annual meeting of the Justice Society Of America of
How many people know that Bruce Wayne is Batman? Not as many know Clark Kent is Superman these days since he told the world, but it seems that Bruce is
Today sees the publication of Superman: Son Of Kal-El #1 the new DC Comics series about Jonathan Kent taking over the role of Superman of Earth, while his
As I stood in line yesterday for tickets to comedian and comic book writer Frankie Boyle's current London show, it was slightly peculiar when I realised
Welcome to the Daily LITG. The world can seem like a terrible and strange place sometimes, but there are highlights. At Bleeding Cool, you can still read
Whenever I chat with Scott Snyder, we end up talking around the appeal of creator-owned comics. And for a big Batman and Justice League writer, this is
Last year, Christine Mari Inzer ran a Kickstarter for the release of Kokoro, a book filled with her viral Instagram comics as well as new unreleased ones.
The Marble Arch Mound opened today, a temporary artificial hill that sits facing the marble arch of Marble Arch. And it costs £4.50 to walk up and down
Okay, I say forever, but certainly for a bit anyway. This week's Fantastic Four #34 by Dan Slott and RB Silva from Marvel Comics concludes The Bride Of
Back in September last year, Bleeding Cool broke the news that DC Comics had pulled Kurt Busiek's Astro City from ComiXology digital comic publisher. This
In this week's Infinite Frontier #3, Roy Harper - the new Black Lantern - meets up with the DEO who, under Director Bones, has taken a more multiversal
The launch of Todd McFarlane's second ongoing Spawn series King Spawn #1 launches in August and naturally has a bunch of variant covers. We already
At the San Diego Comic-Con@Home Superman panel, writer Tom Taylor talked about this week's new comic Superman, Son Of Kal-El, with a Jonathan Kent taking
Man, it has been a long time since the internet had this DC Comics argument. And the last time it did, it was a different world. So I have no idea what
Amanda Weidman had sold her first comic book Mari and the Cloud Princess, as a middle-grade graphic novel, to Grace Scheipeter at Oni Press for
Minh Lê, creator of the picture books Lift and Drawn Together, and writer of the Green Lantern: Legacy graphic novel drawn by Andie Tong is now creating