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In January, Diamond Comic Distributors is pushing  instore comic shop promotions, to coincide with the IDW distribution of the independently published

This year, Sergio Bonelli, one of the most influential people in the comics industry, passed away. But his studio has kept going. In 2011, Sergio Bonelli

It sounds like a dream job – getting paid to read comics and take notes. Very few ever get such a chance. Peter Sanderson did, twice, first working as a

There's a conspiracy theory going around courtesy of one Mike Mozart that alleges that the very backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation

Taiwan Comic Net is a new website created by the Taiwanese government to promote Taiwan-made comic books. It covers their history and culture to the

  I always loved the origin of Superman, as told by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely in All Star Superman, taking up one page and few words. But

  With Marvel and DC owned by two of the world's largest entertainment companies, the conversation over comics and SOPA has been simmering for quite

Bryan Hitch has been counting down for a while now, with lots of speculation as to what the countdown might be for. In covering the countdown, Rich

I heard earlier today that Micha Hershman, VP Marketing at Dark Horse Comics is to leave the company. I've now had that confirmed, Micha is leaving for a

In January, The Lass pub in Manchester will be debuting a stage play version of the Alan Moore/Ian Gibson 2000AD comic strip, The Ballad Of Halo Jones.

Here's a preview of Warriors Of Mars #1 from Dynamite Entertainment, written by Robert Place Napton, drawn by Jack Jadson and a cover by Joe Jusko -

John Byrne was posting about years and Roman Numerals today. On the John Byrne Message Board, he wrote; "Even as far back as 1972 -- MCMLXXII -- I had

Earlier this year, Bleeding Cool told you how Marvel was to launch a $5 comic store voucher for anyone who bought a Marvel digital comic, for 99 cents or

I don't know what poses the curent Wonder Woman artist Cliff Chiang is pulling in the photographs Sam Humphries has of him - and with who - but they must

Clearing out their backlist, Marvel are offering the following titles to direct market retailers at a massive discount, which will be hard for many of

Getting my comic onto the AppStore. I have been producing/publishing Canada's first computer generated comic book ( The Black Diamond Effect ) since 1990.

The holidays certainly threw things a little out of whack when it comes to last week’s new books, but here are some of the books we talked about with

SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, has been prominent in certain parts of the news of late. Introduced in the USA House Of Representatives back in

BirthWatch: Happy birthday for yesterday, Stan Lee. See you in February. GenderWatch: The Guardian covers Bayou Arcana, and the prevalence of sexism in

Some pretty interesting and creative pieces of work in today's roundup of Watchmen commission art.  Anybody else got some little-seen Watchmen art?

This seemed rather popular when I did it last week. What Diamond are planning to sent to comic stores next week and the week after. Remember next week's

The backbone of the success of the DC Relaunch was the publisher offering retailers incentives to order more of the comics, so they could be easily bought

UPDATE: Now with added Rob Liefeld variant and original cover, in their street trade dress. Over the last few years, there has been a rule for speculating

Whenever one talks about the future of comics, part of the answer always includes talk of expanding the fan base and reaching demographics currently not

Thanks to Simon Rohrmuller, the artist on Watchmensch (and an upcoming project with me about to be announced) for the following from his own collection,

From the new Shonen Jump, here is one piece of One Piece fan art sent in and published, drawn by one Tom Warburton, creator of the popular Cartoon Network

He may be the law. But this particular advert for Judge Dredd in 2000AD, by Mike McMahon and Brian Bolland, may cause a trademark lawyer a heart attack

On Christmas Day Bleeding Cool posted art from the upcoming Watchmen prequels from DC Comics - and we received a cease and desist note from DC Comics on

On the new Cerebus TV episode, premiering on Bleeding Cool, Dave Sim first talks about Darwyn Cooke and his work, with a Cerebus TV interview with Darwyn,

Let me get this right. This is a teaser trailer for a preview of a comic book. I think that's correct. A prelude Supercrooks story by Mark Millar (and, by