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Here’s the “teaser trailer” for California's Comic Bug comic store's Free Comic Book Day events, spread across two stores and two days on May the 4th and

You may have read about the threat from certain smile products to the DC Giant-Size Walmart exclusive line of comic books. Well as one threat goes away,

Michael Mantlo is the brother and longterm caregive of Bill Mantlo, former comic book writer, co-creator of Rocket Raccoon and Cloak & Dagger. Much

Yesterday, Nancy Danahy posted on Facebook that 'my former (and only) husband passed away today. RIP Greg Theakston, November 21, 1953 - April 22, 2019.'

Today, in preparation for a possible move, I have put a lot of my comic book collection and other ephemera into storage. I'm not alone, especially in a

It's been a banner year for comic book publisher A Wave Blue World. A month ago, the publisher of This Nightmare Kills Fascists, All We Ever Wanted and

Once upon a time, Bleeding Cool ran what was purported to be a spoiler for the opening of Heroes In Crisis by Tom King and Clay Mann, revealing what we

Vita Ayala's Writer’s Commentary on Xena #1, on sale now from Dynamite. Hi. For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Vita Ayala, and I am a

Free Comic Book Day on May 4th 2019 sees the release of 51 different official Free Comic Book Day comic book titles, including a Spider-Man comic from

Brian Hibbs of Comix Experience in San Francisco has been around for a while. He is currently applying for 'legacy business status' for the longevity of

There we go. War Of The Realms #1 was $5.99 for a thirty-one-page story. 19 cents a page. War Of The Realms #2 was $4.99 for a twenty-page story. 25 cents

Comic book writer (when Marvel let him) Chris Claremont has gone to the home of Colossus, for the Bubble Fest comic convention in Moscow. Keen Bleeding

Owen D Pomery was an architect. He then begame an architectural illustrator. He now makes comic books, somewhere in a world between Tom Gauld and Chris

I've been reading Chip Zdarsky in one form or other since, I think the Warren Ellis Forum days, where he seemed to annoy other people a lot. Possibly

Two months ago, Bleeding Cool got the chance to walk round a little of the new London Cartoon Musuem, a couple of months out of its planned opening. When

Wizard World Comic Con have announced four new shows to their 2019 schedule - and cancelled one. Wizard World Boise Comic Con was scheduled for July 19th

Ladies and gentlemen, my little brother and his Cuppa Tea song. It was his birthday yesterday. Give him some sugar... Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In

The hardcover collection of Doomsday Clock, the unauthorized sequel to Watchmen by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, is due for November. It is even possible

Collector's Paradise of California doesn't just have Free Comic Book Day, they have Free Comic Book May, with signings, sales and free comic books every

Last week's Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt, by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wiinjgaard, part of a series pitched as another unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, jumped

Once upon a time it wasn't that common for comic book publishers to target novelists to write their comics. But, with Swamp Thing, they did just that.

There's a version coming for Free Comic Book Day. But in July, Dark Age #1 by Don Handfield and Leonardo Rodrigues will be launching its first proper

Katie O'Neill bagged two Eisner Awards for The Tea Dragon Society last year, for Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12) and Best Webcomic. In July, she is

Free Comic Book Day sees the release of 51 different official Free Comic Book Day comic book titles, including an Avengers comic from Marvel Comics. Which

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 biggest geek monthly subscription box going, Loot Crate, has been rather quiet of late. Some people are still worried after the collapse of rival loot

Rebellion/2000AD have been browsing through their massive IPC archive and have been finding cold. Such as a collection of Leo Baxendale's Sweeny Toddler

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five comics read yesterday: First Image of New

Vault Comics has a couple of books launching in July, post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Resonant by David Andry and Alejandro Aragon - along with a Y The

Flesk Publications is making the Frank Cho Kickstarted volume Ballpoint Beauties available through Diamond Preview for comic stores in July. FRANK CHO