The Prism is a Science Fiction comic series where rock music and outer space unite. Do you know how astronauts are often considered rock stars? In this Sci-Fi future, the astronauts are literally rock stars. It begins with a pair of astronauts on a distant planet, seemingly on a routine mission of exploration, before one […]
Thomas Girtin: The Forgotten Painter is the latest work from master graphic novelist Oscar Zarate, a graphic novel biography of the pioneering watercolor artist who was J.M.W. Turner's best friend and greatest rival. Part historical narrative, part modern fiction, the book consists of two interlinked stories: the first focuses on the 18th-century painter Thomas Girtin and […]
It's tough not to feel bad for Pete Woods, the artist of The Metabaron Book 4: The Bastard & The Proto-Guardianess. No matter how detailed or well-choreographed his work, it'll inevitably be compared to Juan Gimenez when he got five days to paint one page or Valentin Secher or Niko Henrichon. The comparison isn't respect […]
I read Golden Rage #1 (from Chrissy Williams, Lauren Knight, Sofie Dodgson, Shayne Hannah Cui, Becca Carey, and Joamette Gil) when it debuted in 2022 and the collection in February 2023. A scene in the first issue stuck in my head, and that scene was old woman bathing. I literally never saw that before. The […]
Golden Record by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell is an opulent poetry chapbook (written in English and Spanish) published by Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club, which makes Golden Record difficult to review normally. Bleeding Cool doesn't have a poetry critic this reviewer can punt the work over to. Valero-O'Connell is a Harvey, Ignatz, and Eisner-winning comics artist of Laura Dean […]
Zenescope Entertainment's Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco joined Bleeding Cool today to talk about the next installment of the company's horror/comedy title, Man Goat & the Bunnyman. Man Goat & the Bunnyman returns this week with the second volume, titles Green Eggs & BLAM! Let's see what Joe and Ralph had to say about this new […]
Bluestockings Cooperative, the New York City progressive worker-owned community space and indie bookstore, runs an online comic con this week with over 200 indie comics for sale as digital downloads. Bluestockings Digital Comics Fest is a week-long event using the bookstore's website as a platform for artists who would typically rely on physical conventions or […]
Spring has sprung in San Diego and Free Comic Book Day is upon us again, and the best spot to celebrate is Southern California Comics. Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to attract new readers to independent comic book stores. It usually takes place […]
Belit & Valeria: Swords vs. Sorcery #1, a spinoff featuring two popular characters from ABLAZE Publishing's cheeky copyright-dodging Robert E. Howard adaptations will be published on May 4th. Howard first introduced the fearless pirates Belit and Valeria in the 1930s in the pulpy pages of Weird Tales magazine. This new series is written by Max […]
Hear that guitar riff; it's another rock bio graphic novel coming on the horizon. Hendrix: Electric Requiem is a new biography of the late, great Jimi Hendrix by Mattia Colombara and Gianluca Maconi coming out on May 18th. HENDRIX: ELECTRIC REQUIEM, by Mattia Colombara and Gianluca Maconi • MSRP: $24.99 Release Date: May 18th Hendrix: […]
Andrews McNeel Publishing (AMP) has partnered with Tapas Media, the pioneer mobile storytelling platform with more than 10 million registered users, for a multi-book deal to present a line of smart, entertaining graphic novels featuring strong female and underrepresented characters at their centre. This makes sense since Tapas Media's digital comics have a large female, […]
Eisner Award-winning creator Christian Ward (ODY-C, Invisible Kingdom, Machine Gun Wizards) teams up with red-hot artist Patric Reynolds (The Mask) for an all-new horror/crime tale in, Blood-Stained Teeth. This fast-paced, ongoing series will launch this April from Image Comics. "I've been thinking about making this comic for years, and it struck me that in a time […]
Declan Shalvey (award-winning writer-artist of Moon Knight, X-Men Unlimited, Injection, and Time Before Time) will kick off an all-new, ongoing series in Old Dog. This action-packed spy thriller will launch from Image Comics in June. Old Dog follows Jack Lynch, a once-promising CIA operative. On the eve of retirement, looking back at a failed career, he […]
Zenescope Entertainment has sent over its November 2021 solicitations. The indie publisher is known for their Grimm Universe, an interconnected slate of comics that mixes fairy tales, superhero action, and horror, will continue some of their staple titles while launching a new series. Zenescope's November 2021's offerings include All Guts, No Glory from writer Ralph Tedesco […]
Today — September 27, 2021 — is apparently the final order cut off day for the huge new title from Second Sight Publishing and Legends Press Comics, Project Wildfire #1. The solicitations text for the issue is as follows … Project Wildfire #1 SEP211760 (W) Hannibal Tabu (A/CA) Quinn McGowan "Enter Project Torrent," Part One. […]
What We Don't Talk About is the graphic novel debut from Charlot Kristensen, a talented artist and writer who has made her first endeavor into comic books a journey about racism, bigotry, and the complications interracial couples experience daily. This astute story swings big at tackling the convoluted issue of how ignorance can grow and […]
Adam F. Goldberg, showrunner and writer of The Goldbergs and Schooled, is teaming up with writer/producer Hans Rodionoff for a new comic book hitting shelves today from Zenescope Entertainment. Possessive #1 kicks off Goldberg and Rodionoff's latest series, a horror-comedy with a fun and unique premise. While Goldberg is celebrated for his TV work, he's also becoming known […]
Conflict Of Interest Siren: Hannibal Tabu, a Bleeding Cool writer, co-wrote MPLS Sound. I interacted with him a couple of times on Slack. To the best of my knowledge, that's the extent of our interactions. We have different tastes, as evidenced by our wildly different takes on Commanders In Crisis. It's impossible to remove bias, […]
In the wake of rave reviews for issue #2 of The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr, I thought I'd take a closer look at the incident that kick starts the entire series from issue #1. There will be spoilers, so if you want to go into the series blind, turn away now. For what it's […]
Jason chats with Halloween Man comic creator Drew Edwards on his IndieGogo to raise money to alleviate the amassed Covid-related medical expenses of Terry Parr, creator of the comic Aerobicide. The Indiegogo project: the Aerobicide/ Lucy Chaplin Science Starlet Crossover. For those unfamiliar, Lucy Chaplin is an adventurer in her own titles and in the […]
