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  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. Somehow, it’s

Donny Cates is Marvel Comics' new wunderkind. Taking Venom and Thanos and making those titles sell again, he's all set to do the same with Guardians Of

You may have listened to With Great Pleasure, Neil Gaiman on BBC Radio 4 before Christmas Day. But now that the day itself has passed, there's no reason

We gave you a look at Comiket 95 setting everything up in Tokyo yesterday - now we get a look at Day One of the world's largest comic book convention,

We have been following former Vice President of Purchasing, Bill Schanes, as he takes time out to remember early details of his career in comic book

Bill Schanes, former VP of Purchasing at Diamond Comic Distributors, is continuing his reminiscences of comics distributor days gone by - including his

Comiket began as a one-day comics show in Tokyo in December 1975 with 700 attendees. It now has the largest attendance of any comic book convention in the

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 Katheryn Winnick Talks

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday Sunday, a weekly-ish mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but (mostly) every Friday and planned to coincide and cover

Three-quarters of the way... Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every year we get told how wrong

Matthew Snyder writes, Welcome to the Comixology Bestseller list, your guide to see how well your favorite titles are selling digitally. Every week I'll

Nick Barrucci of Dynamite Entertainment has a charitable message he is prepared to back. He writes, Both Fat Jack's Comicrypt and William Messner-Loebs

In the new Diamond Previews publications out today for March 2019 comic books, Image Comics previews what's coming in April as well. We knew that Jeff

Iron Man 2020 first appeared in the second issue of the Machine Man limited series in 1984, created by Tom DeFalco and Herb Trimpe. Arno Stark, he was

There's a new hashtag in town. #Spidersona. For people who have just seen Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and want to create their own parallel universe

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. Somehow, it’s always

Last night, Rhys Thomas presented his look back at 2018 on BBC Four, A Year In The Life Of A Year. This included a mashup between Paddington 2 and A Very

Christian Ward is best known as one of the best comic book artists on the planet right now. With work appearing in his co-creator-owned ODY-C and Infinite

Dark Horse Comics is soliciting a collection of their four issue Call Of Duty: Zombies 2 series in May. The only problem seems to be that Dark Horse seems

Legendary comic book creator Glenn Fabry told us in September this year that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. And, in a matter of fact tone, has

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: The Jilted Lover of a

Two-thirds of the way through... the end is in sight. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every

Once upon a time, I self-published my own comic books. The series Dirtbag followed by a more commercially titled series The X-Flies, from Twist &

We ran Bill Schanes of Diamond Comic Distributors' memories of the Great Distributor Wars of 1995 earlier today. He also shared memories of the meetings

Sina Grace writes to Bleeding Cool, Hey Folks, I’ve had an amazing year, and I wanted to end 2018 by really making a difference. Let me touch on the

Bill Schanes co-founded Pacific Comics in 1971, an early direct market comics distributor and creator-owned publisher, before joining Diamond Comic

Almost two-thirds of the way? Who would have thought? Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every

Comic book artist Frank Cho has revealed that he's moved on from drawing derrieres to drapes.

If they're not bringing Aunt Petunia back from the dead or rewriting Stan and Jack's original, Dan Slott, Aaron Kuder, Michael Allred, Adam Hughes and

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and