Swipe File Archives

Marvel Comics have released the above and below homage variant covers to hip hop group Run The Jewels for Howard The Duck and Deadpool... to Rolling Stone

This is a poster from Mardi Gras 2007 created by Jozef Szekeres. And from the Crown And Anchor in July. Joe writes, www.chrisharrispresents.com claims

So DC Comics have all these movie cover variants based on Warner Bros films for March....   And a swipe file for each and every individual cover

This is the cover by Shane Davis for Superman: Earth One, published a number of years ago by DC Comics. And this is the movie poster for The Invisible

On the left, an 1971 Esteban Maroto illustration from Eerie #38, a story called A Stranger In Hell. And on the right from a couple of years later when

Punisher artist Mitch Gerads seems to really like his fellow artists on the title. So much so that he has integrated their work - into his! Whether its

Here is Conan from the upcoming Conan/Red Sonja series from Dark Horse Comics. And here is Sorcerer Hennet from the D&D 3rd Edition. Is it me or have

A Little Bleeder writes in to comment on a recent edition of CNN's Bleacher Report, which ran a piece on the artwork of Alberto "Laff" Berroa, Jr., who

This is a grafitti mural in the Bronx, from Dom Tag. This is Joe Quesada's cover for Batman Gallery. All fine? Well yes, except for Dom Tag prints coming

This is Francesco Francavilla's variant cover to Original Sin Annual #1.   And this is Gallieno Ferri's cover for Zagor #85 from July 1972. Thanks

Bud Light have been running a promotion under the hashtag #whateverUSA, where Vanilla Ice serves ice cream to a grateful crowd. It looks a little like

This is Zod, in battle, in Injustice: Gods Among Us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abG1Ff2_45o And this is Superman in battle in today's Superman

From last year's Fairest #17, cover by Adam Hughes, published last year by DC/Vertigo... And from Mnemovore #1 by Mike Huddlestone, published last decade

Okay, the bottom bit of the Swipe File always talks about how Bleeding Cool doesn't judge regarding swipes. How we understand that they are often part of

This is the cover for the X-Men: Days of Future Past Ultimate Edition. And this is the X-Men inspired piece "Mutants" from Marko Manev from 2011. I think

  T-shirt design 'Assembled' for RiptApparel by Rabzilla. Artwork by Mark Brooks from 2002.   One on top of the other courtesy of Peter A

A Bunny Suicide strip. And an ad for Kelloggs' Squares advert seen on Facebook. Or is that a Squash File? In Swipe File we present two or more images that

This is a Lalique Midnight Blue Mossi vase, being advertised on the back of a glossy magazine. But it does look rather familiar doesn't it? Let's make a

On the left is Ivan Reis' Green Arrow #0 cover, on the right is Daniel Sampere's new Green Arrow #35 promo image. Are they just a similar pose or is there

The Intercept looks at the US administrations's terrorist tracking programme. And discovers something unnerving. I mean, it discovers lots of things that

From today's New Avengers #21 with the Superman analogue from an incursing Earth, meeting his fate from Doctor Strange going all magicky apeshit... And

Here is a scene from the upcoming comic Brainstorm, drawn by Dennis Calero. And this is Idris Elba in Pacific Rim, with a quick Google Imges search... In

Here is preview art from the new D&D Player's Handbook. And the character Violet from the ongoing Image Comics series Rat Queens. Considering how...

To celebrate the 115th anniversary of the Portguese mineral water, Agua Castello commissioned new look bottles in a very distinctive manner. The

  This is the solicited cover for Bloodstrike #35, published online in December 2012 for publication from Image Comics in March 2013... The series

This is a cartoon created by Chad Porter in 2013 and published on DeviantArt. At the time he said, This has been a running gag in my head for some time

From Watchmen... And from the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3lsJmwNO40 And from today's Earth 2...   And furtehr reading, including a rather

  From the 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, concentrating on the effects of comic books on children, especially horror and crime

Ryan Lindsay and Eric Zawadzki's early page for Headspace #1 from 2014. Brian Wood and David Gianfelice's opening page for Northlanders #1 from 2007.

This is a Prometheus poster, licenced published by Mondo by artist Marko Manev. Or at least it was. Until some folk pointed out its similarity to Tim