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If you are in London, San Diego Comic-Con can seem a very long way away. But as Marvel Studios announces the details of Phase 4 on Saturday, Will Simpson

  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

Cameron DeOrdio has a Writer’s Commentary on Charlie’s Angels/Bionic Woman #1, on sale now from Dynamite. He tells us; Hey there, folks. Long before I was

Captain Marvel #8 is out this Wednesday. The start of a new chapter, Falling Star, which appears to feature a new Marvel Comics character, Star. And one

There are some longtime comic book collectors who despair at so-called SJW comic books creating female versions of classic comic book characters, whether

Over at the Valiant Fans Facebook group, some Valiant readers have been expressing their concerns regarding the absence of certain characters from the

I used to write for Comic Book Resources when it was called Comic Book Resources, rather than CBR. You may remember a little Monday morning column I wrote

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

The Diamond Retailer Best Practices Awards: Summer 2019 will be announced as San Diego Comic-Con on the Friday. Submitted by retailers, the Diamond BPAs

Here you go, the 100 most-ordered comics and graphic novels in the North American direct market of comic book stores served by Diamond Comic Distributors

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

  We looked quite hard at Arthur Suydam's DCeased #4 variant cover for Comic Hero University, pointed out how rather than being a zombie homage to

  The Diamond Retailer Best Practices Awards: Summer 2019 will be announced as San Diego Comic-Con on the Friday. Submitted by retailers, the Diamond

This Morning is a British daytime television programme on ITV, running on weekdays from 10:30 am till 12:30 pm featuring news, topical items, showbiz,

Dean Yeagle is a comic artist who generally liked to draw cute sexy cartoony women in a state of undress. Or at least that's what his client base likes

Ah to be an American. And to be given the honour of being able to sign up to the DC Universe streaming service. We may have the NHS and never have to give

Last week, Texan English teacher Anna Waugh told her local paper, the Dallas Voice, about an incident last year in her previous school, Irving High

Kristine Stone, Neal Adams' partner, posted to Facebook about the Grand Opening today of their own comic book store, Crusty Bunkers, in Burbank,

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We've already seen what Skybound have as exclusives for San Diego Comic-Con, here's what's on the other side of the booth... the rest of Image Comics.

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool looked at the anticipated orders for new comic book Once And Future #1 by Dr Kieron Gillen and Don Mora, from Boom Studios, in

DC Comics has exhibited at San Diego Comic-Con for decades. When Warner Bros turned up, like other media companies, they set up their own booth. Booths

Laurie Penny is best known - in the UK at least - as a political columnist and activist, writing for the Independent, the Guardian, Time

Matthew Snyder brings it on, jotting down the digitally delivered comic book of the week in his usual weekly run down. He writes,Welcome to the ComiXology

At San Diego Comic-Con, Humanoids will be selling an exclusive edition of their H1 launch comic book Ignited #1 by co-writers Mark Waid and Kwanza

The first time it did it, people said it was a fluke, specific to a rather fun variant cover. Then it happened again. And now for a third month, Immortal

Here is a statistic for you. Comic book sales in 2019 so far, compared to 2018, are down over 5% in numbers and down over half a per cent up in dollars.

It's good to be Cullen Bunn. He's just had two comic books get launched, sell out and go to second printing in the same week. The first, Unearth #1,

Graphic novels don't often make it into the USA Today's Top 150 Best Selling Books list. Some manga, now and then. A little Walking Dead here and there.