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Last week, we told you that Boom Studios was kicking off the new year by planning to announce that Batman's James Tynion IV’s and Werther Dell’Edera’s

Last year, Bleeding Cool reported that Image Comics would be publishing a sequel to Kit & Cat Seaton's graphic novel Scottish fairytale Norroway.

Well, that New Mutants movie trailer has seemed to do the job in all sorts of ways. We mentioned that Marvel was sending a bunch of its Epic

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Marvel Comics is launched its big Robert E Howard crossover series last year, Conan: Serpent War. With Soloman Kane, Conan and Dark Agnes. And now

Tonight saw the airing of Doctor Who: Orphan-55 on BBC 1. And it's a little bit of politics, ladied and gentlemen as Doctor Who gets as subtle as, well,

The Statue Of Liberty pops up first - of course we know it's a Weeping Angel. But it also makes for a thematic link to the episode of Doctor Who that just

David Finch is a Canadian-born comics artist known for his work on Ultimate X-Men, Batman, Cyberforce, The New Avengers, Moon Knight, Wonder Woman and

We like to keep an eye on Jean-Marc Lofficier‘s Hexagon Comics USA line, European comics mostly written by Jean-Marc Lofficier, translated into English

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

Over in Venom, the great god Knull of the symbiotes is on his way to Earth. In Empyre we will see the invading armies of Kree and Skrull arrive on Earth.

These are the 100 most-ordered comics and graphic novels in the North American direct market serviced by Diamond Comic Distributors in all of 2019,

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Almost twenty years ago, Janna Morishima began her career in publishing as the assistant to creative director David Saylor at Scholastic 9 (#5 on the

In this morning's Lying In The Gutters, I mentioned that Image Comics Partners were doing a big signing at I Like Comics, in Vancouver, Washington.

Cartoonist Carta Monir has donated hundreds of pages of original art, including complete and near-complete works, to The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library

Twitter user The Unholy Dragon works at Gnu Books in Oshawa, Ontario, and is in charge of ordering for the store. And he's been crunching the numbers. He

So who wants some more half-truths and misinformation? As a result of yesterday’s address to retailers by DC publisher Dan DiDio, much of which can be

Last October’s MCM London Comic Con had Jim Shooter as a guest. Former teenage writer of Legion Of Super-Heroes, Editor-In-Chief of Marvel Comics, writer

Dick Grayson, Robin was created as a side-kick to Batman by Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson, in 1940. Conceived as a way to attract young

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Today, addressing comic book retailers on Facebook, DC Publisher Dan DiDio talked about a number of matters (and you can catch up with them all with this

DC Comics has seen a rush of younger reader-focused original graphic novels, originally the Zoom and Ink imprints, though such imprints went away with new

Bleeding Cool had the tip-off that evidence of 5G and the new DC Comics Timeline we have been talking about for quite a while, would officially appear in

Today, addressing comic book retailers on Facebook, DC Publisher Dan DiDio talked about a number of matters (and you can catch up with them all with this

To be fair, Batman: Damned Book One came out on time. But a certain issue with the Batpenis meant that subsequent issues of the series had to be redrawn,

DC Comics has traditionally ruled the roost at the bookstore, a reputation for a strong relationship with the bookseller market, with perennials like

When it was announced, Doomsday Clock, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, was also a crossover with the DC Universe.

DC Comics is sending Batman #86 and Doomsday Clock #12 back to the printers Batman #86 Second Printing will reprint the debut chapter of "Their Dark

Wonder Woman was first created by William Moulton Marston in 1942, halfway through the Second World War and was initially depicted fighting Axis military