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Every first Saturday of May, the comic book industry hosts Free Comic Book Day, when comic book publishers and comic book retailers conspire to give away

Fears around the spread of the coronavirus pandemic have closed comic book conventions and now comic book publishers too. This is what Bleeding Cool has

While some comic book publisher staffers are able to work from home, it's a little harder at a comic book distributor. Chris Powell, Chief Relationship

Bleeding Cool has learnt from multiple sources today that DC Comics staffers are being told to work from home from this coming Monday, March 16th. That's

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool reported on Boom Studios decision to join Oni Press in a policy of working from home for all staffers, as a result of fears

Well , this is fun. Bleeding Cool has been following former publisher of DC, Dan DiDio, and his plan for 5G/Generation Five that was planned to have seen

Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden are writing a new Lady Baltimore series, drawn by Bridgit Connell, with colours by Michelle Madsen, and covers by Abigail

Pornhub may be making their premium service free to Italians, but Dynamite has their own Italian cure to coronavirus blues with a new Bettie Page comic

From the new DC Comics June 2020 solicitations, former Bleeding Cool contributor Si Spurrier, will take over the writing of the Justice League ongoing

DC Comics has released their June 2020 solicitations. Three Jokers, a DCeased Dead Planet and... Clownhunter. DCEASED: DEAD PLANET #1 written by TOM

This is the first of a number of major comic con events to not be cancelled, or postponed indefinitely, but postponed to a specific date. Reed POP, behind

Marvel Comics returns to market dominance, selling almost one in every two comic books ordered in the North American comic book direct market, with a

Lots of comic shops choose to open their doors for the first time on Free Comic Book Day. I think last year we counted eleven, all told. Well, it's still

Gosh Comics of London, launched Steven Appleby's cross-dressing superhero graphic novel Dragman last night (pictures throughout below). They have a busy

Marvel is putting a few more comic books back to second printings. They are not all Star Wars comic books. But they are mostly Star Wars comic books. We

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

Marvel Comics is ramping up their exclusive retailer variant cover programmes again. for March they pulled it back to seven but for April, it was double

It looks like the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting comics beyond just the cancellation or postponement of comic cons, like WonderCon most recently. Bleeding

I've seen the first episode of Adult Material, the new drama coming to Channel 4 and All4 very soon, sytarring Hayley Squires, Alex Jarrett, Siena Kelly,

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

Giant-Size X-Men Magneto was solicited as drawn by Ben Oliver. But retailers have just been informed, that it will now be drawn by Ramon K Perez. This has

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool ran the news that Comic-Con International had cancelled April's WonderCon in Anaheim. No sooner had the word dropped that

Wizard Entertainment of the double-decade Wizard Worlds is to launch “Wizard World Virtual Experiences” just as WonderCon announced its

Bleeding Cool has received the following statement from Comic-Con International regarding the planned staging of Wondercon in Anaheim, California, for

Anthony Oliveira is best known for writing comics such as Steven Universe, War of the Realms, Pros and (Comic) Cons and Shout Out. But the comics creator,

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Today is my daughter Eve's fifteenth birthday. I know, right? But I wanted to talk about her fifth birthday, ten years ago. Or rather a week before it

Courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, here are the nominees for the Diamond Gem Awards of 2019, to be voted on by comic book retailers in the direct

Steven Appleby is one of Britain's leading cartoonists, with a rich history of work stretching through comics and cartoons, for newspapers, magazines and

It seems that the masthead of the new issue of sci-fi/fantasy comics anthology Heavy Metal Magazine #298 was deliberately not included in previews of the