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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

  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

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

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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,

  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

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.

House Of X #1 is published on the 24th of July. Powers Of X #1 is published on the 31st of July. But already Marvel Comics has sent them back for second

The concept of The Mask was created by Mike Richardson in 1982, and first published as a single sketch he drew in 1985 for APA-5, an amateur press

  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

Marvel is having a lot of delayed books by one of two weeks. This is a look at a couple of series having certain date issues right now. The current Doctor

Comic book grading and slabbing company CGC is announcing a number of Private Signings events at an Diego Comic-Con - and the prices to match. But for

Not everything Image Comics and Robert Kirkman do together is Walking Dead-related. He has a whole studio after all, Skybound. Oblivion Song is a series