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We’ve been telling you how Image Comics has been worried about the rise of rival Boom Studios over the last year and how Erik Larsen, one of Image’s

Oni Press, publishers of Rick & Morty and Invader ZIM comics published the first issue of Sanrio’s Aggretsuko. Promptly sold out. And it now putting

Yes, yes, this is late, I was watching The Taming Of The Shrew last night, sometimes compting culture conflicts. So as watched on the iPlayer this

David Avallone's Writer’s Commentary on Bettie Page Unbound #10, on sale now from Dynamite. And here we reach the end: the last issue of Bettie Page

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail

Not everyone stays to the end of movies. The very end I mean, after the credits have rolled. Not even super hero movies. Marvel movies usually have

We’ve just all seen Doctor Who: Can You Hear Me over here in the UK - which also had this teaser for next Sunday’s episode, The Haunting of Villa Diodati.

Bleeding Cool readers will be familiar with Jude Terror's Written By A Bot series of articles in which, like CBR, he gets a bot programme to write a pop

Alan of All About Comics And Books, of Phoenix, Arizona has announced that he and Marsha are retiring as comic book store and closing the store. Alan

The following Marvel Comics titles are all getting second printings and will be arriving in comic book stores on the 11th March. Avengers #30 Captain

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

In October of last year, ComicBooks For Kids announced their first colouring book, which we announced here. Mark Weiss, president of ComicBooks For Kids!

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Bleeding Cool has been repeatedly breaking news about the new New York-based publisher Bad Idea Comics, formed from former executives of Valiant

Back in Action Comics #1000, which saw Brian Bendis' first Superman story, drawn by Jim Lee and Scott Williams, the lead story by Dan Jurgens and Norm

In 2017, comic book fan Mathew Sterling was arrested at Phoenix Comicon after a tipoff from a Facebook friend that he was going to try and shoot Power

This weekend is the third annual FanfaireNYC at the High School of Art and Design. FanfaireNYC is a charity comic convention to raise money for the art

Geoff Richards writes, I’m often asked about where the inspiration for Herd came from. Wait, let me rewind that a little for you. I write a comic called

Amazon opened new offices last month on State Street, Santa Barbara. And the locals have mixed feelings. The new headquarters will be employing around 300

Upstart Crow is the theatrical sequel to the BBC TV sitcom of the same name, with the same writer Ben Elton and pretty much the same cast. Directed by

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail

At the end of Batman #85, by James Tynion IV and Guillem March,  we had a Joker contemplating unveiling the identity of Batman, as Superman had done,

John Luzar writes Hi. My name is John Luzar, and I’d like you to buy my comic book. It’s my first. Well, who the %#@! is John Luzar, right? Exactly. Maybe

Erik Burnham has a Writer's Commentary on Red Sonja: Age of Chaos #1, out now from Dynamite. He writes, It's the year 2020 and you know what that means...

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday, a semi-weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but (mostly) every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the

I wonder if Geoff Johns looks at the DC Comics' Free Comic Book Day edition, Generation Zero solicitations and wonders what Pandora's box he opened with

Boom Studios and Dynamite Entertainment are the leading proponent of what is known as the FOC cover, releasing cover images just before the Final Order

It was only a few years ago that Boom Studios launched Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 to sales of over 100,000 units, one of the last independent comics

Yesterday, I was able to introduce the owners and managers of the Piranha Comics chain in London to Simon Furman. They were big fans of his Transformers

A fair few changes coming through for Marvel Comics titles, between solicitation and publication. Captain America #20 will be drawn by Robert Quinn, and