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Last year we told you that Comics Vault Live, the monthly streaming show produced by Skybound and hosted by Shawn “Big Clutch” Kirkham, was delivering

DC Comics has had one hell of a rough year. They fired their publisher, two editors-in-chief and many staffers who had been at the company for decades, with more expected.

If there was a sign that the current comic book speculation market is getting very silly indeed and heading towards a new Dutch tulip boom, it is this.

It's Grant Morrison time! With all the understandable industry attention on Boom Studios’ record-shattering BRZRKR by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, and Ron

While Steven Grant did not create The Punisher for Marvel Comics, he does have the reputation for making The Punisher what we know him for today. In

Last week was the final week for those DC Comics employees subject to the second wave of redundancies of 2020 - those who took the full three months'

Taskmaster was a series originally intended to be published alongside the release of the Black Widow movie. It was delayed along with other Black Widow

The Superman DC Comics May 2021 solicitations for Action Comics #1031 by Philip Kennedy Johnson and Daniel Sampere, reads thus; "Warworld Rising" part

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Barbara Gordon, Batgirl was created by Batman television series producer William Dozier, comics editor Julius Schwartz, writer Gardner Fox and artist

The Inflatables is a new graphic novel series for kids by Beth Garrod, Jess Hitchman, and Chris Danger. It has been picked up for a four-book deal by

Sal Abbinanti writes for Bleeding Cool about The Hostage. He writes, The Hostage has been many years in the making. It’s something that came to me just

Last year, DC Comics spent Valentine's Day stating that Harley Quinn was definitely not a couple with Poison Ivy, instead she was spending her day in a

Every year since 2013 (aside from last year) DC Comics releases a DC Essential Graphic Novels guide. Aimed at bookstores and libraries, it is an attempt

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what is

Marvel's Voices #1 was the first of a series of anthologies bast on the Marvel podcast of the same name, celebrating a diversity of narrative voices at

Jeremy Holt (Virtually Yours, Before Houdini) and George Schall (Planet of the Apes, Chasing Echoes) is launching a new science fiction comic book, Made

CoverWatch is an irregular Bleeding Cool feature looking at variant covers for comic books, especially exclusive retailer variant covers, and the weird

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As the values of comic books continue to boom, there is more attention than ever being paid to original art sales, especially as more and more artwork is

Huda Fahmy, creator of webcomic @YesImHotInThis on Instagram has successfully auctioned Huda F Are You?, a new YA graphic novel, for six figures to Dana

The original Mark Bagley Miles Morales Spider-Man artwork to the cover for Ultimate Fallout #4 was purchased this week in a private transaction for $225,000 by an anonymous buyer.

In his newsletter, James Tynion IV stated "I’ve been having a series of very exciting calls and emails about Something Is Killing The Children that I

Steph Mided has sold her new contemporary middle-grade graphic novel series, Club Kick Out to Andrew Arnold at Harper Alley. Club Kick Out, the first of a

Original artwork from comics written by Alan Moore can sell for a pretty penny. But the project in question can affect the value. So, at Heritage Auctions

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DC will be celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May with the  DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration, a 96-page one-shot

Boom Studios’ Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Complete Comic Collection Kickstarter ended as the fourth highest-funded comic book campaign of all time at

No more Frankensteining needed. Here are DC Comics full solicitations for May 2021 and beyond. New books for Mister Miracle, Wonder Girl, Batman, Future

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