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Bleeding Cool scooped all on the news that Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez are bringing back their comic book Old Guard, about a captain leading a small

Sam Maggs is reviving the Unstoppable Wasp series in young novels published by Marvel Comics starting next year. Previously the Marvel PR ran thus; In

  Bob was a sitcom starring Bob Newhart from the eighties, where he played a comic book artist. In one episode from 1993, it went a little further

#NotComics: This Sunday, Soho Square saw the annual KirstyFest celebration. Where fans of the late singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl gather around her

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Fortnite, the game with approximately 250 million players across the entire world, has shut down and I do not know when it coming back.

Jonathan Hickman has been answering questions about a certain comics about over at Adventures In Poor Taste, following the conclusion of last week's

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is running a series of retailer webinars to help promote their CBLDF 2019/2020 Retailer Membership program and donation

ICV2 recently ran a presentation to the comic book industry, ICv2 Insider Talks 2019 – The Future of Comics in the Age of Streaming, with a keynote speech

Last week saw the final issue of Powers of X #6 by Jonathan Hickman and RB Silva, and the conclusion of the weekly run for the last three months between

Sherlock and Doctor Who writers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat are writing a brand-new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel for BBC One and

Wow, Jaime’s response to Naris intruders sure has come a long way from “threateningly brandishing twisted metal,” huh? Welcome to the fourth and final

Dav Pilkey's Dog Man can go swivel. One Piece, Bleach and Attack on Titan can get stuffed. Raina Telgemier can go kick a can. Marvel Comics EIC

Jupiter's Legacy is the upcoming Netflix adaptation of the Mark Millar, Frank Quitely and Peter Doherty superhero comic book from Image Comics. The word

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Once of the standout scenes from Kingsman: The Secret Service, based on the Secret Service comic book by Dave Gibbons, Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar

I am a child of Spitting Image. The rubbery puppet satire show that ran on Sunday nights on ITV for over a decade in the UK taught a generation who their

Bleeding Cool remains in awe at Mark Millar's manipulation of the media. We first noted it when he managed to get a local journalist to run puff pieces on

Brian Garside is the founder of Manage Comics, subscription pull list software for comic shops, and he’s dedicated his life to helping comic stores grow,

The Top Ten Kids Graphic Novels in the book channel in August 2019, based on NPD BookScan data below, tells quite a story. At number one, Dog Man: For

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist Hardcover is the upcoming memoir by Adrian Tomine, both in and out of the comic book industry and his place

This week's The Batman's Grave when it wasn't reinventing the Wayne family graves, alongside the freakiest gift that loving parents can get their child,

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

Late comics into London this week saw be go digital. Which is also how I missed out on another Snickers ad managing to destroy a perfectly good comic book

John Bamber writes to tell Bleeding Cool that he is selling the original artwork to the first published Judge Dredd comic book story from 2000AD #2 in

Paul Rainey is the creator of There's No Time Like The Present, Thunder Brother: Soap Division and Book of Lists and is an occasional contributor to Viz

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Comic book creator Joyce Chin, most recently drawing Vampirella in Playboy Magazine, did not have a great C2E2 and it did not get better. Thankfully New

The artistic credits to the upcoming Black Cat Annual, keep on changing. Originally announced with art by Javier Pina, known for his stellar work

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Saturday, a semi-weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but (mostly) every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the