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The Atomic Basement Comics and Creators Lab opened its doors to the public yesterday for New Year's Day - and New Comics Day - at noon on Long Beach,

Roy Thomas writes, courtesy of his manager John Cimino, Happy New Year everybody!  In celebration of a new decade, my manager and friend John Cimino and I

Bleeding Cool has learned that comic book creator McSmesh aka ‘Sage’ is working away on an extensive warts-and-all Louise Brooks comic book biography.

Dav Pilkey's last Dog Man graphic novel, Fetch-22, had a five million print run and a sell-out tour that rocketed him to the top of the Bleeding Cool

With Boom Studios variant covers becoming quite the sought-after collector and speculator items of late – from second printings to one per stores  – and

I mentioned in my brief semi-spoilery summation of the first episode of Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue's Dracula, which aired on BBC One last

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Tonight saw the debut of the first episode of the new BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, from Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue. It was

It's been a year... Doctor Who returned to BBC 1 tonight, scheduled between Miranda and Eastenders, and ahead of Dracula and Mr Brown's Boys. Is it me or

Well, Marvel Comics will be finding out how much people want to read an ongoing classic Star Wars series without Han Solo in it, as the current

We've already looked at political and economic lessons from Magneto - and historical revisionism from Apocalypse - in today’s X-Men #4 from Jonathan

Marauders#5 sees Kate Pryde and Emma Frost, once the worst of frenemies, now the best of them, revisit old lives. And toast the new year in Krakoan.

I know I was riffing on comic book attitudes to continuity. But reading today's Red Hood: Outlaw #41, I had a bit of a Mandela moment. Can anyone help me

Today sees the publication of Thor #1 by Donny Cates (#13 on the power list) and Nic Klein, just after Cates put a lid on all his cosmic storylines in

Continuity gives Miles Morales a headache. Literally. Especially when fighting one of his major villains, who he can no longer remember their shared

Alfred Pennyworth is dead, in the Batman comic books, killed by Tom King (#29 on the power list). Not in The Batman's Grave though - unless he is an

Today sees the publication of X-Men #4 by Jonathan Hickman (#9 on the power list)and Leinil Francis Yu which, as we pointed out in a preview, sees the

Political endorsements can be a dangerous game, you never know where you'll end up. Just ask Mark Millar (#34 on the power list), who backed and promoted

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Smack dab between two holidays, a new edition of Previews is in retailers hands and Dynamite Entertainment has a handful of exclusive retailer cover

Mark Millar popped by John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast before Christmas to talk about his work for Netflix, what led up to it and the state of comic

Aaron Haaland, owner/manager of A Comic Shop in Winter Park, Florida, posted a rather distressing end of 2019 this morning to Facebook. Not a good way to

Here you go folks, in full, the Top 100 Power List of Comics, 2019 Edition. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the

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

We mentioned that Dave Sim's latest upcoming Cerebus In Hell one-shot, yet another #1, would be a Walking Dead parody, The Varking Dead. With this

If you are me, you often find yourself tagged into online drama, and asked to bring it to light. This can take time however, especially when there are

The Tsuutʼina Nation is a First Nation band government in Alberta, Canada. In 2006, the land was returned to the Nation by the Canadian Government of

The closure of the Tokyo Big Sight complex this winter had led to a smaller Comiket than usual - but still making it the biggest comics culture event on

Next week sees DC Comics publish Batman #86, the first issue of James Tynion IV, Tony S Daniel and Danny Miki's new run on Batman. On his mailing list,

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