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This Sunday, the BBC is to broadcast a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' political novel Oliver Twist, reimagined by writer Ayeesha Menon, moved to the

This Loot Crate came speedily compared to the other. But again they got the wrong size shirt - possibly a blessing giving its nature and the reaction that

In 1941, the founder of DC Comics publicly floated the idea of creating a Batman army unit to fight Hitler. And he published it and everything. And the

Comic Empire, a comic store in Stones Corner, Brisbane, Australia has burned down. This happened before, well away from, the current Australian bushfires

Thomas E. Sniegoski's has a Writer’s Commentary on Vengeance On Vampirella #4, on sale now from Dynamite. He writes, Vampirella has returned to life, and

Marvel Comics will be publishing Savage Avengers #0 in February, reprinting Uncanny X-Men #190 and #191 by Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr that

Bleeding Cool has just run the 500 most-ordered comics and graphic novels by direct market comic shops through Diamond Comic Distributors in North America

Here’s the big list, the top 500 most-ordered comics and graphic novels through Diamond Comic Distributors in North American comic book stores through

Fabian Nicieza, is best known for writing the X-Men comics, co-creating Deadpool, Domino and X-Force with Rob Liefeld, The New Warriors with Mark Bagley,

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

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

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,

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

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