Infinite Frenemies is the latest digital-first edition of the DC Super Hero Girls series, now written by Amanda Deibert and drawn by Erich Owen. The series, in a variety of media, has been a strong performer in attracting young female readers to the characters, by remaking them into a high school setting. As it is a […]
Available in bookstores and digitally tomorrow, My Video Game Ate My Homework is an original graphic novel for DC Comics created by Dustin Hansen. Video game designer-durned author of the Microsaurs series of books, this is his first graphic novel. It will be available in comic stores servicde by UCS and Lunar at a later […]
Wolf's Head, the ongoing comic book series by Ottawa comic book creator Von Allan, has finally come to digital comics platform ComiXology. Allan revealed the news in a press release, marking an expansion for the book to a worldwide audience. The first issue is available now, with the next nine to become available when processed. […]
All major comic book publishers have pulled digital comics versions of new titles out this week, as they are still unable to publish them in print. There are exceptions for Archie's general market titles, collections already sold into the book market, and original graphic novels such as DC's Alt-Hero out today. Smaller publishers are less […]
Magdalene Visaggio and artist Claudia Aguirre are collaborating on an all-new, five-part comic book mini-series, Lost on Planet Earth, debuting digitally this Wednesday, April 15th on ComiXology Originals. Just as Visaggio's sci-fi series Vagrant Queen launches as a TV show on Syfy, so she has a new sci-fi comic book launching this week. And she is […]
With the comic book industry in a state of shutdown for the foreseeable future, readers must rely on digital releases to get their weekly comics fix. ComiXology is happy to oblige this week with Quarter Killer, a new 140-page original graphic novel by Vita Ayala, Danny Lore, Jamie Jones, and Ryan Ferrier available today. Described […]
I have been writing this article for almost twenty-four hours. Been talking to senior comic book industry figure after another. The problem is, the second I get a hold of what might actually be going on, the situation changes from under me. But everyone is agreeing that this current coronavirus pandemic, and the reaction to […]
Today, I have been talking to comic book retailers, publishers and distributors alike, looking at the effect that the coronavirus pandemic is having on comic book stores and the comics industry as a whole, and it is not looking good. To the extent that this could mean the end of the direct market as we […]
Om Monday, my weekly political cartoon for Guido Fawkes looked at the plans this week for Sunak Rishi, the Conservative government's new Chancellor Of The Exchequer to increase public borrowing and spending, as well removing tax relief, increasing the tax burden overall. But he has just removed one very significant taxes for readers of this […]
Ah, the new year. A time for change. For examining the past and looking forward to the future. For cranking out think-pieces on a holiday to fill an article quota. The perfect time to talk about comics' greatest failure: digital comics. When digital comics were first introduced to the superhero comics industry over a decade […]
Here you go folks, in full, the Top 100 Power List of Comics, 2019 Edition. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the English-speaking comic book industry, weighted towards the direct market. It is judged by all manner of attributes, the ability to influence what comics exist and sell, […]
Amazon subsidiary ComiXology has announced the latest comic to join their ComiXology Originals program: In the Flood, written and illustrated by Ray Fawkes. Compared to David Lynch and Haruki Murakami, the graphic novel tells the story of a couple trying to keep their marriage together while separated by a mysterious flood. The book will be […]
ComiXology has announced a new four-book deal with Stout Club Entertainment, the creative studio consisting of Rafael Albuquerque, Eduardo Medeiros, Mateus Santolouco, and Rafael Scavone, to produce comics for the company's ComiXology Originals program. The group is like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of comic book creating, except better, because they have two Rafaels. Also, […]
ComiXology has announced a new original graphic novel coming to its digital comics platform tomorrow, part of the ComiXology Originals program that makes the graphic novel free to Amazon Prime, Kindle Unlimited, and ComiXology Unlimited members. Libestrasse, by Greg Lockard, Tim Fish, Héctor Barros, and Lucas Gattoni is love story about an American banker named […]
The collapse of British travel company Thomas Cook Group has affected over 600,000 travelers, with many citizens of the U.K. and Germany left stranded when the company ceased operations over the weekend. https://twitter.com/ThomasCookUK/status/1175953082238275585 Amongst the travelers stuck in a foreign country with no flight home is Joe Glass, writer of the hit ComiXology Original The […]
ComiXology published comics online on Wednesdays even before I can get to the comic shop in London – let alone Americans five to eight hours later. And digital readers have got used to getting their early morning fix. Not this morning however, as the ComiXology social media Twitter feed slowly discovered. hmm, give the app […]
The first of four new ComiXology Originals announced last month will hit stores tomorrow. Breaklands, by writer Justin Jordan, artist Tyasseta, colorist Sarah Stern, and letterer Rachel Deering, is set in a world where everyone has superhero powers except for one young woman who happens to be the book's protagonist. ComiXology, Amazon's premier digital comics […]
I've always been fond of Martin Eden's self-published comics. He began his superhero series The O Men back in the 1990s and finally completed the story in 2017. That's over 1,000 pages of a saga he wrote, drew and published on his own. In the course of all that time, he has created his own […]
At the ComiXology event at San Diego Comic-Con Wednesday, the digital comics publisher announced another original series, this one from writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Jason Loo, along with Paris Alleyne, Aditya Bidikar, and Allison O'Toole. Called Afterlift, the book is described as about "a ride share from hell." Bleeding Cool Editor-in-Chief Kaitlyn Booth is […]
ComiXology is holding their opening event at San Diego Comic-Con right now, and they've just announced a new ComiXology Original from writer Marc Bernadin and artist Ariela Kristantina, with colors by Jessica Kholinne and letters by Bernardo Brice. Called Adora and the Distance, the fantasy comic is inspired by Bernadin's own daughter, who is autistic. […]
