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Prominent gay comic book creator, activist and commentator, Andy Mangels, has shared a few words with Bleeding Cool over the passing of fellow comics

Comic book and TV writer Gail Simone has a habit of writing things that then scream round the internet at the speed of outrage. Which is very, very fast

Absolute Carnage may be over. But Carnage is still around, there are plenty of implications for what Dylan Brock did, and The Maker is on the run, his own

I've just popped into Piranha Comics in Kingston-Upon-Thames for my weekly collection of comic books. The usual mix of superheroes and action-adventure

Soaring Penguin are the publishers of David Hine and Mark Stafford's The Bad, Bad Place.  It is an amazing comedic, horrific creation, with roots in The

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

Comic book creator and publisher, Howard Cruse has died, aged 75, after being treated for cancer. A lading alternative comics creator, he was the founding

UPDATE: Obviously the Tesco website fell over at 01.02 leaving everyone fuming. The original article runs below: #NotComics: I'm not entirely sure which

They were announced a while ago. But now it seems that comic stores will have the chance to sell them, if they so wish, in January. Jim Lee branded

Okay, okay this will need a spoiler warning sign. Not so much for Avengers: Infinity War because by now, come on. But for Frozen 2 which, you know, is

Mac Salman of Maction Planet went to Tokyo Comic-Con and came back with a blistering array of videos, with a Bleeding Cool-style from one side of the show

Earlier today, Marvel X-Men Senior Editor Jordan White began posting his frustrations with the character of Magneto. Has anyone done an X-Men infographic

Thought convention season was over for 2020? Think again. The Big Apple Comic Con is the longest-running comic convention in New York. Started by retailer

Nothing like a little Bleeding Cool water cooler gossip over what's going on with the Spider-Man books. As we have seen (and reported) Marvel has been

Niobe: She Is Death, the sequel to Niobe: She Is Life, currently being adapted into an HBO series, Asunda, has seen its first issue sell out and go to

Yesterday, Jude Terror wrote a piece quoting Donny Cates on comics piracy. Earlier today, we looked at a bunch of comics creators and critics talking

In last week's Avengers #26, set in the dawn of man, as part of the Avengers 1,000,000 BC storylines, we got to meet the first superhero of Earth,

Yesterday, Jude Terror wrote a piece quoting Donny Cates on comics piracy. But it has become quite the conversation (again) on social media between comic

Last week, the father of Superman: Earth One and Batman artist Shane Davis, was selling a jeep that had belonged to Shane’s late mother. Before doing so,

Last week, Magdalene Visaggio posted the following on Twitter... we are up to no good pic.twitter.com/KyK7h8B6PD — Mags the Merciless (@MagsVisaggs)

I do love the work of cosplay extraordinaires  Hilly and Hannah Hindi, known as The Hillywood Show. Spending months - years - creating utterly musical

IMAX in the UK will be giving away four new limited-edition Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker mini-posters, designed by Dan Mumford, ahead of the release

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

We've looked at a bunch of Marvel, Image and DC Comics collections and original graphic novels coming through the pipeline right now, here are a few more

Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres are launching a new comic book series, BANG! from Dark Horse Comics in February. But they would like you to get to know

Ahead of the any-minute-now release of Warrior Nun, the Netflix series based on the Warrior Nun comics, published by Avatar Press (also publisher of

We had a look at upcoming Omnibus and Absolute titles from DC Comics earlier, here's a look at some of Marvel's Omnibuses, as well as their monstrously

Long before Marvel Comics published Squirrel Girl, Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur and other comic books which, according to some people, shouldn't be

Loot Crate does seem to be up and running after its brief bankruptcy-and-firing episode earlier in the year. So much so that people who applied for - and

We had a look at some DC Omnibus titles and a bunch of Younger Reader original graphic novels coming down the pipe but here are some more DC Comics