The final chapter of the Grandville graphic novel series by Dr Bryan Talbot has won the 2025 graphic novel entry for the ActuSF Prize for Uchronia, a French literary award created in 2011. Each year, it rewards the best works relating to alternative history. The prize, given to Grandville: Force Majeure published in France by […]
Author, researcher and commentator, Daniel Best, known around these parts for writing The World vs Todd McFarlane, has also written a biography of Norm Breyfogle, partly with Norm. Best known for drawing Batman, Norm Breyfogle died in 2018 at the age of 58. But before, back in 2007, they were planning to tell his life […]
This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for June 2025. Including what we are dubbing BechdelCon from Foyles, the Barnes Children's Festival, a host of clumped signings and the return Drink And Draw at Gosh Comics, Forbidden Planet Camden joining the signing crowd with Dave Hill, Pride events at the Cartoon […]
Rodney Barnes is to write a new 30 Days Of Night series, Falling Sun, coming from IDW Publishing in October. 30 Days of Night was originally published as a three-issue vampire comic book miniseries by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith from IDW in 2002, set in Barrow, Alaska, so far north that during the winter, […]
Despite the Bleeding Cool-announced lateness of Batman #161, DC Comics has, of late, gotten a greater grip on the schedule of titles, with fewer titles being announced and then slipping down the schedules. But one title has proved particularly stubborn when it comes to lateness, and that is Batman '89: Echoes by Sam Hamm and Joe […]
The United States Bankruptcy Court has approved the latest amendment to the Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) Credit Agreement between Diamond Comic Distributors, its debtors, and JPMorgan Chase Bank. This means that Diamond Comic Distributors can keep going under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, even though it was just bought by Ad Populum in a bankruptcy auction. And maybe […]
Rob Liefeld recently fully quit Marvel Comics over a) him and his family not being allowed into the Deadpool And Wolverine premiere after party, but b) not getting an upfront credit for the Deadpool And Wolverine movie as the principal creator of Deadpool. Which, you know, is 100% right. Marvel Studios could do this – […]
The week before Hallowe'en, IDW will be publishing the new comic book series Return To Sleepy Hollow, written by Casey Gilly. Gilly is a horror comics writer, known for Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer, Buffy: The Lost Summer, Dungeons and Dragons: Ravenloft: The Orphan of Agony Isle, and My Little Pony. She is currently writing […]
Grim is a pretty fantastic ongoing comic book series from writer Stephanie Phillips, artist Flaviano, colourist Rico Renzi, and letterer Tom Napolitano that launched in 2022 from Boom Studios, with a story about "a young woman with a macabre job and a mysterious death to solve… her own!" In which the late Jessica Harrow has […]
Bleeding Cool previously provided scoops for upcoming Turtles titles, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/TMNT III, Shredder and TMNT: Journeys. But there is more to come. Such as IDW launching two new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles titles in October. Firstly Tales of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 launching from IDW, written by Andrew Joustra. And Teenage […]
Today is the last day that any comic book store can sign up for the Penguin Random House Direct Market Partnership Programme. Which means comic book stores get a 2% discount on almost every publisher carried by PRH, including monthly comics from Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse, Boom, Dstlry, TokyoPop and the rest. And for the […]
This is why the delay of Batman #161 is going to hit hard. As Batman #160 beats all comers (but only just), Ultimate Spider-Man, Absolute Wonder Woman, Absolute Martian Manhunter, Giant-Size X-Men, the lot. Ooh, and look, Magik outsells Uncanny X-Men, that's new… four for DC, six for Marvel in the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Weekly […]
Sorry folks, if you'd just read Batman #160 and were looking forward to the next chapter of H2SH in Batman #161 in a month's time, you are going to have to wait an extra month. Batman #161 by Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair has been delayed from the 25th of June […]
Bleeding Cool has the scoop that IDW will be publishing new comic books based on the Street Sharks cartoon and toyline. To be written by Stephanie Williams, the new series will launch in comic book shops in September. Street Sharks was a TV cartoon about the adventures of crime-fighting half-man/half-sharks produced by DIC Productions, L.P. […]
Comic book retailers who order their Marvel Comics through Penguin Random House and have signed up to receive promo Items should be receiving, with their comics for next week, a single free copy of a their free promo surprise June variant cover of Marvel Knights: The World To Come #1 by Joe Quesada and Christopher […]
Who does Titan Comics think they are, Dynamite Entertainment? They have 39 covers for their upcoming Heat Seeker: Exposed #1, including retailer variants for stores like KRS, Forbidden Planet, 616 Comics, Stadium and more. And because these are part of the Gun Honey franchise from Titan Comics' Hard Case Crime imprint, you can expect all 39 […]
Michael Dolce of comic book publisher Dren Productions saw the recent news we reported about Dynamite pushing to get half a million dollars in payment from Diamond Comic Distributors for recently shipped titles. This should have been covered by the DIP funding during Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and Dynamite was trying to claim it as an […]
In recent months, a number of Diamond Comic Distributors employees have been made redundant or moved on to other companies and industries before the hammer came down. We have also heard recently that a number of Diamond employees have taken voluntary and compulsory redundancies as a result of the buyout. As you can see, lots […]
Ellie Berger, President of Scholastic Trade Publishing and Executive Vice President of Scholastic, will retire on June 11 after forty years at the publisher. She joined in 1985 as an associate managing editor and was made Publisher of the trade division in 2006. The following year, she was promoted to President. Berger was involved in […]
Udon Entertainment and Manga Classics have told comic book retailers that they are to halt all shipments to Diamond Comic Distributors until further notice, and that any open Diamond orders should be considered as cancelled. This will also impact on the timeliness of releases such as Mega Man Timelines. In a statement, Udon says; "UDON Entertainment […]
