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Caleb Palmquist writes, My name is Caleb Palmquist, and I am one of the writers and creators of the science fiction comic book series A Small Favor. The

We ran this preview a few weeks ago. But Wonder Twins #1 by Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne is published on Wednesday. Also, today is FOC for Mark

The Legends Comics and Games comic store chain of Frenso in California, held the grand opening of their new comic store this weekend, in Clovis. Located

Kickstarter and other crowd-funding companies have created a new revenue and publishing stream for comic book creators. It can be used to sidestep

Weapon X was the title given to Wolverine by the Canadian government. As well as Wolverine, of course. X meaning mystery,m a hidden origin, something

There's a story I've heard from a number of comic book industry folk - albeit one denied by some Marvel people. But hearing it again this weekend from

Netflix has recently trademarked 'The Exceptionals' for comic books, using the same trademarking style and content categories as they have for Jupiter's

Michael Moreci's writer's commentary on the new Battlestar Galactica: Twilight Command #1 on sale now from Dynamite Entertainment. PAGE 1: Okay! Here we

Dynamite Entertainment is to launch a new Bettie Page comic in April, by David Avallone, Julis Ohta, Ellie Wright, Taylor Esposito and Kevin Ketner.

James Post, owner of the NY Collector Cave, has a retailer exclusive cover for the new Sabrina, The Teenage Witch #1. He states that 'we got the go-ahead

Former Bleeding Cool contributor Frazer Brown has a brand new project, launching a London West End theatrical version of The Night Of The Living Dead.

Andy Runton is the creator of the all-ages comic book Owly, a favourite of my youngest daughter. But it's a different, and far less fictional animal that

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

Bleeding Cool gave you the heads up on the Anti-Love and Anti-Sex Agenda of Age Of X-Man, the current mutant reality being published by Marvel right now,

Wolverine #144 was a comic published by Marvel in 1999, written by Image Comics founder Erik Larsen and current Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson. It

Sheryl Hall of Thrifty Couture has been running workshops in Hampstead, England, this week, encouraging people to turn comic books into footwear. Taking

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories read yesterday: Brandon Sanderson

There are a few peeks inside the covers of Detective Comics #1000 out there. Here is what we've found... Tease from the piece @GregCapullo

Tom Mandrake is a comic book creator, best known for his work on Grimjack, The Spectre and Martian Manhunter, especially in collaboration with John

With the launch of the new Red Sonja #1 comic this week by Mark Russell, Mirko Colak and Dearbhla Kelly and, frankly, better than 99% of the other comics

Last week's kerfuffle saw comic book artist Mike Miller tried to reuse and redraw an old Spider-Man cover sketch by the late Mike Wieringo, and claim it

This is the Dynamic Forces retailer exclusive cover for Detective Comics #1000 by Dan Jurgens and Kevin Nowlan. In colour and in glorious black and white.

It looks like a badly Photoshopped promotional piece. And that's probably because it is. But that image of the Hulk had to have come from somewhere.

Tim Drake was the third Robin character in Batman. He was also a virgin. While other Bat characters were wont to put it about a bit, Tim's only mistress

Orbital Comics in London moved to its current location adjacent to Leicester Square tube ten years ago. And this year is running a number of ten year

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories read yesterday: Brandon Sanderson

DC Comics, after a couple of rounds of redundancies, has been a pretty paranoid place. More changes are still expected in the summer but no one seems to

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday, a weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the demands of

Buffy The Vampire Slayer #1 debuted last month and has already hit a third printing on issue #1. But is April’s Buffy #4 the really big issue? Last week,

Copies of the first printing of Middlewest #1 by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona are going for around $10 on eBay. But that unmet demand is enough for