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Free Comic Book Day is a time for a celebration of comic books, all they can do and all they can appeal to. There are comics for everyone, from everyone,

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool pointed out that Starburns Industries had made their Starburns Comics Presents title for Free Comic Book Day 2019 available

The London Film And Comic Con event running from the 26th to the 28th of July in London Olympia has just been announcing a bunch of new comic book guests.

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

Last one for tonight - I think. You see, it looks like Marvel Comics are going to have some big launches or new creative teams on a number of titles in

Almost done? Getting there. It looks like Marvel Comics are going to have some big launches or new creative teams on a number of titles in August. People

Getting into the swing of things? Good. Now where were we? Oh yes. It looks like Marvel Comics are going to have some big launches or new creative teams

We're over the half way mark. Unless things change. Because it looks like Marvel Comics are going to have some big launches or new creative teams on a

Getting into the swing of things? Good. Now where were we? Oh yes. It looks like Marvel Comics are going to have some big launches or new creative teams

Yup, we're a couple in and it's all going well. So far. You see, it looks like Marvel Comics are going to have some big launches or new creative teams on

It looks like Marvel Comics are going to have some big launches or new creative teams on a number of titles in August. People you might not expect to be

This feels a bit like a birth announcement. And it kinda is - but we're going to get sextuplets. It looks like Marvel Comics are going to have some big

The sun is still out, the birds are tweeting, there's a certain buzz in the air, And Bleeding Cool has three reveals to entertain you all on such a

Comicsgate, the comics activist group that's recently promoted a number of crowdfunded comic books, had an early history in making transphobic comments

In 2013, comic book writer/artist/publisher, creator of Youngblood and Major X and co-creator of  Cable and Deadpool, Rob Liefeld, crowdfunded an appeal

Mark Brooks is well known for his comic book covers, recently including Batman and the upcoming House Of X and Powers Of X. (Update: Sorry, sorry, a mixup

Michael Rosen has taken his radio show Word Of Mouth to look at the power of the language of comics, with comics theorist and cognitive researcher Neil

Chris Claremont is the comic book writer who helped revitalise the X-Men comics in the seventies and eighties, to the unmatched sales heights they reached

Bleeding Cool pointed out that last week's The Walking Dead #191 would be a thing. We called it the end of the second act of The Walking Dead and the

Anthony Desiato has written, presented and directed a new feature-length documentary My Comic Shop Country, about comic stores across America. He started

The University of South Carolina has received a donation of 180,000 comics and books from a comics collector, Gary Watson, a nurse from Columbus, Ohio. A

The Cartoon Movement has won Belgium's Evens Journalism Prize 2019 from the Evens Foundation. While graphic journalist Takoua Ben Mohamed has received the

Leah Williams has a Writer’s Commentary on Barbarella/Dejah Thoris #3, on sale now from Dynamite. As ever, we are always happy to run comic book creator

I bumped into Glenn Fabry at Portsmouth Comic Con on Sunday. He wasn't a guest, but since it was an hour up the road from his home town of Brighton, he

At Portsmouth Comic Con, I got to meet Jean-Marc Lofficier for the first time. A French author of books about films and television programs, as well as

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. It's a bank holiday week in the UK, so things are a bit

I got the chance to catch up with Liam Sharp yesterday, as he was attending Portsmouth Comic Con for the weekend - and visiting with his parents. He has

I got chatting to Jamie Delano at Portsmouth Comic Con yesterday. Best known for his run on Hellblazer, crafting the character of John Constantine who

We placed David Steward II 44th on last year's Bleeding Cool Top 100 Power List with good reason. Founder of Lion Forge in St. Louis publisher, he is now

Time to read the Amazon tea leaves for Marvel Comics again. Cancelled titles are often still collected in trade paperbacks but their collections are