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British graphic novel publishers SelfMadeHero has launched a new programme to help graphic novelists or potential graphic novelists in the UK from a

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

Roofhoppers is a new graphic novel by Andi Porretta that has been bought by Alex Borbolla at book publisher Atheneum. Compared to Booksmart and set

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool leaked the letter sent to DC Comics freelancers last night regarding the use of NFT non-fungible tokens for selling artwork

PrintWatch: Josh Williamson posted on Twitter, "INFINITE FRONTIER #0 is going to 2nd print! Thank you for supporting our new chapter in the DCU! It's very

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool leaked the letter sent to DC Comics freelancers last night regarding the use of NFT non-fungible tokens for selling artwork

There has been a lot of fuss in the media recently about the possibilities of artists creating digital artwork, the ownership of which would be determined

DC Comics has played hot and cold with Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy over the years. Made a couple in Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner's run on the Harley

A few days ago, Bleeding Cool scooped the word on Marvel Comics publishing a queer-themed anthology, Marvel's Voices: Pride, celebrating LGBTQ+ characters

Garth Ennis and Liam Sharp are working together for the first time on Batman/Killer Croc, a new comic book from DC/Black Label, Batman: Reptilian, out in

Comic book creator Vikram Madan is creating two early graphic novels featuring Owl & Penguin, two unlikely friends who, despite their differences,

Ghost-Maker is a new character recently introduced into the Batman comics by writer James Tynion IV, and retconned into Bruce Wayne's past. A rival

A couple of weeks ago, Bleeding Cool posted a story about a comic book published by DC Comics that they shouldn't have published for one reason or other.

Thank FOC It's Friday -  Planned to coincide and cover the demands of Final Order Cut Off at Diamond Comic Distributors. And now Lunar Distribution as

Event Leviathan: Checkmate was a planned sequel to Event Leviathan by the same creative team, Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev for last year. Then a certain

Collecting a bunch of promises, schedules and solicitations, 16 comic books from DC Comics solicited, including Deathstroke joining Batman on Fortnite

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

Over a month ago, we looked at the rumour that there was a lot more Wildstorm Universe coming back to DC Comics to join Grifter, Midnighter, Apollo and

Marvel Comics published the long-awaited, long-delayed, rewritten and redrawn Children Of The Atom #1 by Vita Ayala and Bernard Chang debuts this week

The Batman: The Adventures Continue comic book is getting a season two. Or is it a season two-hoo? Sorry, that joke is so awful I should work in PR.

Today Image/Skybound Entertainment have announced The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton, a new action-mystery series from Kyle Starks of SexCastle and

This morning, Bleeding Cool let you know that, despite having a whopping order of 615,000 copies of the first issue from comic book stores, BRZRKR #1 by

 You Promised Me Darkness, the new comic book series by Damian Connelly published by Behemoth Comics. And it seems to have done a little better than

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

Shaky Kane is a legendary British comic book cartoonist whose Jack Kirby-meets-Dada work I first discovered in Deadline magazine way back when, and

Yesterday, Marvel Comics published Non-Stop Spider-Man #1 by Joe Kelly and Chris Bachalo - ironically after a rather long delay, partially caused by Chris

PrintWatch: The highest-ordered standard-priced comic by comic book shops in almost thirty years – BRZRKR #1 – has sold out at the distributor level and a

It's Magic time... Boom Studios appears to be poised to take another massive worldwide franchise historically underestimated by the direct market and turn

In May 2018, Bleeding Cool reported that Boom Studios had hired former DC and Marvel editor, Jeanine Schaefer in the new role of Executive Editor to

Scout Comics is the second publisher to sign a distribution deal to the comic book store market with Lunar Distribution. Lunar is the distribution company