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We continue to follow Bill Schanes' adventures through his past as a Vice President at Diamond Comic Distributors, while walking round the finest graffiti

Comics publisher and reporting website ComicMix has been fighting a legal case for a couple of years now against the estate of Dr Seuss. It revolves

Bill Schanes has been entertaining us all with his memories of distribution days past. And this beauty predated his time as VP of Diamond Comic

The following article contains major final page spoilers for tomorrow's Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1. You can stop reading right now and come back

This month Marvel Comics have begun to publish a series of collections, celebrating their 80th Anniversary, with one book per decade. We've now got full

I grew up without baseball sports cards being a thing. In the UK we had football stickers from Panini, that was probably the closest thing, but you'd

Tomorrow sees the release of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man from Marvel Comics, and new series stepping in the spot vacated by Peter Parker, Spectacular

Bleeding Cool has been sent an advance copy of Captain Marvel #1, out tomorrow. And have been allowed to talk about it today #respecttheembargo. Now, this

Obviously, Brexit was won by geeks. But tonight's Brexit: The Uncivil War on Channel 4 starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings and directed by

2019 is the eightieth anniversary of the publication of Marvel Comics #1 by Timely Publications, featuring the Sub Mariner and the Human Torch. It began

Sentient, by Jeff Lemire, Gabriel Hernández Walta and Steve Wands about a colony ship in space, the USS Montgomery, where an artificial-intelligence being

Tom King tweeted some art by Clay Mann and Tomeau Morey from Heroes In Crisis. Probably issue 5, out at the end of the month. Issue 4's conclusion saw

Batman #62 is out on Wednesday, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads, their first joint project since the end of Mister Miracle. Tom King Is. So Is Mitch Gerads.

There are big spoilers here for Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #1. Why? Because today is FOC date for the new series by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, Mary

So, 2019, what's up for superhero comics from the big boys through the year? I am told that 'Connective Tissue' is said to be the watchword for American

Only a month after his death, Stan Lee's passing remains in people's hearts and minds, especially as Marvel Comics continues a month-long cover memorial

NFL SuperPro was a comic book series published by Marvel Comics, in 1991 that ran for thirteen issues (including the debut 'Special') by Fabian

I confess I have wondered why more comic book publishers don't do this. Marvel's split between comics and film means that you won't see an Iron Man comic

Don McGregor is a well-regarded comic book writer who began working for Marvel as a proofreader in the seventies, before becoming a writer and editor for

Am I really going to have to write this? Seems so. The other day, Jude Terror re-reported Brian Bendis' teases for 2019. And then he posted 10 images,

Chuck Rozanski, owner of Mile High Comics, writes about the closure of the Cleveland branch, with a lesson he wishes to share to other comic book store

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 Will Marvel Make

Naomi is the second comic from DC's Wonder Comics line, launching this week with Young Justice #1. And just as Young Justice #1 is all about Metropolis

Bleeding Cool ran a vast collection of #Spidersona images posted online in the wake of the release of Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse. People creating

In his latest newsletter which you should all sign up to, seriously, I mean I say this every time and I'm sure some of you don't, comic book

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

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool noted that next week's Young Justice #1 will have a citizen of the Gemworld dimension state that the Earth has undergone seven

The 38th Asterix comic book will be released on October 24th. It will, as is traditional, take over every possible printing press in every possible

We continue to follow Bill Schanes' adventures through his past as a Vice President at Diamond Comic Distributors, while walking round the finest street

London and Birmingham have seen two pop-up stores appear in the New Year to promote Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the new Netflix interactive version of the