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We talked about bumping into Jean-Marc Lofficier at Portsmouth Comic Con, with a table full of graphic novels in English that I hadn't seen before,

Until a few days ago, Melissa Meszaros was Director of Publicity at Oni Press, after joining the Portland-based publisher two years ago as a Marketing

You may have been following Bleeding Cool's articles on what we said would be called Marvel Comics #1000 for August. A book with 80 one-page stories by

We mentioned this in the April 2019 marketshare report earlier. But, as well as Immortal Hulk #16 outselling Batman #68 and #69, there was another

The April 2019 Diamond Comic Distributor stats are out, and they make rather interesting reading. As well as Marvel Comics getting a 50% unit share,

The last time I think this happened was in September 2008. And I don't recall it happening before or since. But in April 2019 marketshare, released by

When I visited Paris recently, I got a chance to visit Arno, one of the Pulp Comics store managers on the now-legendary Rue Dante in Paris, a street with

Bleeding Cool just ran a number of articles looking at twelve comic book stores opening and a number of expansions and re-openings. But it's not always

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #6 is going back to a second printing -  as well as getting a retailer variant second printing, at a 1:25 ratio by Juan

This does have a tendency to happen towards the end of a cancelled series, as certain creators valued by Marvel get shunted from a project on its way out,

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And yesterday we had some interesting visitors come by

After the massive success of the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, Marvel Comics got round to collecting all the Marvel Tails and Peter Porker The

Well, this is an odd one. In Marvel Comics' July 2019 solicitations, they included the listing for a new Marvel Summer Special, reviving the old nineties

We're totally doing this every month now. A Marketshare-Per-Capita chart. The usual comics industry marketshare shows how much share of the overall market

Okay, this is what we think we know. Marvel #1000, or Marvel Comics #1000, is  a volume featuring one-page stories by a tonne of comic book creators, many

Legendary Avengers comics writer Roy Thomas is giving us two-for-one today. Here's his recollection as to how the Avengers logo that we know and love -

August is not just bringing Marvel Comics #1000. It's also bringing a new Doctor Mirage series from Valiant Entertainment, relaunching the series

Creator of British sci-fi weekly 2000AD and co-creator of Judge Dredd, Pat Mills, has been posting his current issues with the current owners of 2000AD,

Toby Whithouse is best known for creating the BBC TV series Being Human. He also created the Channel 4 police drama No Angels, the BBC drama The Game and

Just now, comic book creators have tweeted and insta'd a bunch of teasers for what Bleeding Cool believes is to be called Marvel #1000 or Marvel Comics

Roy Thomas, legendary comic book writer and editor for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, flew to Portsmouth Comic Con last weekend. Courtesy of his manager

The Veronicas are an Australian pop band  formed in 2004 by identical twin sisters Lisa and Jessica Origliasso. that took its name in part from Veronica

And from IDW, Amber Blake #1 is getting a second printing for the 12th of June - MAR198651. Ghost Tree #1 is getting a third printing - MAR198821 and

Alison Sampson was double-tabling this past weekend, first at Brighton Graphic on the Saturday, then Portsmouth Comic Con, where I bumped into her, on the

Bleeding Cool looked at eleven comic book stores opening across Free Comic Book Day this year (four here, another seven here). We missed that Sin City

We wouldn't normally spend an article talking about a comic book that has slipped a week on the schedule. Usually it has to slip into the following month

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And last night we had some interesting visitors come by

Yesterday and today, Bleeding Cool has been running Marvel promotions for August featuring what appear to be impossible comic book creative teams. Like

Well, I suppose his dad is a redhead. Could this be why the newest member of the British Royal Family will be called Prince Archie? Full name, that's

In the most recent issue of The Batman Who Laughs by Scott Snyder, Jock and David Baron, the comic leans heavily on letterer Sal Cipriano to do something