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It's Motor City Comic Con of Michigan’s 30th anniversary in 2019. And you know what happens to you when you hit your thirties, you start to become really

Nine Worlds is an annual geek convention held in London every year with a keen emphasis on diversity and accessibility. Originally held in and around

The first issue came out on August 1st 2018. The second issue on September 12th 2018. The third issue was scheduled for the end of October 2018. But of

Many comic book creators have been sharing their goodwill for the coming year on social media. Artist J Scott Campbell's seemed especially timely. Last

Ben Dunn of Antarctic Press announced this week a new project he's been working on with artist David Furr. He writes, For quite some time David Furr and I

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And feel free to correct me every time I write 2019 as

The Miami Herald has an unusual front page headline yesterday, amongst the family tragedies, the White House and Cuba, and sport coverage which may have

Local news station 3News reports that two thieves broke into a storage unit in Las Vegas and stole over a hundred thousand dollars worth of comic books.

You can dig a little further if you are after spoilers for tomorrow's Action Comics #1006, after certain comic stores put them on shelves a little early

It is New Year's Eve. Which means that's the time for the local supermarkets to roll out all their Easter confectionary. Naturally, I posted this on

Here you go folks, in full, the Top 100 Power List of Comics, 2018 Edition. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the

Stabbity Bunny creator, Richard Rivera, has been hospitalized in recent months, and there is a GoFundMe appeal to help his treatment. . Rich had a minor

You've waited long enough. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every year we get told how wrong

They may not all have been solicited as such. But Bleeding Cool is here to let you know which comics published in February and March that will lead up to

It's New Year's Eve, everyone is busy preparing for a night of Bacchanalian excess, I'm calling it. These are the fifty most-read stories of 2018 on

Awaken Skies was a title that launched from Aspen Press in the summer of 2018 with Awaken Skies #0 by Frank Mastromauro and Marco Lorenzana. However, no

Cerebus ruined me for Conan. The new Marvel comic does an excellent job of capturing the storytelling tics of Robert E Howard  - or rather the way the

The first issue of the four-issue mini-series Gamma by Erick Freitas, Ulises Farinas and Melody Often came out in September. Styled as Pokémon meets Power

  Champions #1 out this Wednesday is getting a new series and a new cast. A much bigger cast. In the previous series, laggers and hangers-on to the

Presents after Christmas? What a treat. The girls and I just received the longest Loot Crate we've ever had. What's so long inside it that would justify

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Five most-read stories yesterday: Let's Take a Look at

So very close... Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every year we get told how wrong we are.

From 28th December, on the occasion of the late Stan Lee's 96th birthday, comic creators Dave Gibbons, Kieron Gillen and critic Gavia Baker-Whitelaw were

So very close... Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every year we get told how wrong we are.

Dirk Manning writes… I think the worst fear of most writers is not so much that they’ll never get noticed/discovered/published as much as it is getting

Erik Burnham's Writers Commentary on Red Sonja #24, out now from Dynamite... Erik Burnham here, about to throw down some thoughts about the penultimate

Bleeding Cool pointed out how a number of comic book stores had been selling next week's comics a week early, possibly out of confusion and ignorance

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

  Billy Tucci, creator of the Shi comic book series, reported on social media yesterday that The FBI visited my home warning that DEATH THREATS have

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Five most-read stories yesterday: Donny Cates Comes Out