Swipe File Archives

A new strip by Tim Buckley for Ctrl-Alt-Del... The fourth search result for "punk girl" on Google Images. In Swipe File we present two or more images that

This week's Dark Avengers' finale. And a classic Alan Davis promo piece... Flip Wolverine over he's done. In related news. a number of retailers who

Spawn, the second longest running book at Image, has been plagued by lateness of late. Although the solicitations keep up a monthly schedule, the book's

Meet Erro. Currently with an exhibition in the Pomidou Centre in France. Now those look like familiar images don't they? Here's one from Brian Bolland.

Grant Morrison has a history of putting himself in his comics - whether literally as in Animal Man, or with an avatar, as in The Invisibles. Of course The

This is a double page spread from 2000AD's ABC Warriors by Pat Mills and Mike McMahon. And this, The Virus Is Activated By Fear from a new exhibition by

Alan Moore may have made an appearance on The Simpsons. But it would be his comic Killing Joke, with Brian Bolland that would be picked up by South Park.

Last week's issue of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season #8, Them Fucking (Plus The True History Of The Universe) featured an issue long sex scene between

I saw this ad on the tube yesterday. And no I didn't see an example of royal armour staring out of me, part of the new exhibition at the Tower Of London.

1. Activision. When making images to market your games, you can use computers to generate characters from the games. Or if the images in Ultimate Alliance

This is a piece of Rogue Trooper fan art that 2000AD and Dynamite artist PJ Holden drew for personal use online, coloured by Steven Denton. And these are

Here are the UK posters. But I saw the trailer for this last week and was just waiting for the Eric Idle song. "Just remember that you're standing on a

Not a traditional swipe file this one. No lightboxes, no panel comparisons, nothing like that. More an... editorial similarity. THE SPIRIT #1 Written by

Rock musician Nick Simmons has been writing and drawing the comic Incarnate for Radical Comics. But some people have seen a few similarities between that

So.. which one is which? Thanks to the New York Times In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be

Back in the Lying In The Gutters days, I ran this swipe file, between the movie poster for Vantage Point, and a splash from Pulp Heroes by Victor Santos

I remember reading (and enjoying) this Evan Dorkin comic, coming off his excellent Bill And Ted comic book (now available in glorious black and white from

What would former star English footballer and current sports presenter Jamie Redknapp look like in a silly wig? The cover to Jack Of Fables #44 knows. And

I think it's fair to say that there are certain elements of The X-Men that found their way into Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S. So it's only fair if there's a

The Mask is a story who obtains a mysterious ancient tribal mask. Whenever he puts on the mask, Barnes experiences dream-like visions which become

One is a multi-million dollar movie starring Denzil Washington for 2010, written by a comics writer,  using comic book imagery and artists such as Chris

Two films. One director. One poster.

MillarWatch: Saturday's Scotsman's magazine profiled Mark Millar this weekend. Nothing particularly new, shocking or concerning his ongoing battle with

The DCU blog The Source posted some pages from Adventure Comics #5 last night. Including this one; Which suddenly makes a post from a few weeks ago a lot

Back in February, I reported on Bob Schreck's dismissal at DC Comics; DiDio stated that he wanted to do his own continuity-free line “All Star"-like line

I love the theory of simultaneous evolution. That sometimes things happen that seem so linked but that are clearly seperate in origin. And it's true in

This is Hitman Monkey, a new Marvel character created by Daniel Way. He'll be appearing in Deadpool then his own Marvel Digital comic. And this is Rei

The opening to Spider-Man, soundtrack by Danny Elfman. Ultraviolet opening, sound track by Klaus Badelt. Surprisingly Ultraviolet has more comics in the

There appears to be only one way to sell a major event in Marvel Comics. With multiple choice Celebrity Squares... Or is it Brady Bunch? And will the

Marvel have launched their new digital comics reader, giving it a 3.0 suffix and, well, let's face it, learnt from some of the more popular comic book