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This cold be my favourite creative team announcement of the Expo. No Mercy by Alex De Campi and Carla Speed McNeil on art Eight issues for the first volume, beginning in April… Kids on a trip College kids, on the way to do charity work abroad, their bus falls off a mountain It gets worse. Get the details[...]

I'd like to thank those who engaged in interviews this year on Bleeding Cool again for sharing their perspective and wisdom with us, and with our readers. Here are some of the highlights from the interviews of 2014 from myself, Rich Johnston, Dan Wickline, Adi Tantimedh, Alex Wilson, Nikolai Fomich, and Jeremy Konrad: With Fred Van Lente:[...]

Here we have Lady Zorro #1 for you to read free from Alex De Campi and Rey Villegas. Also, for those folks who picked up the new Django / Zorro #1 this week, Dynamite has put together a playlist for the songs to listen to while reading the first issue. Dynamite is having a big sale[...]

Today Dark Horse unrolled the content of their landmark 200th issue of Dark Horse Presents coming in February, and it's a massive 80 page tour-de-force of their most celebrated creators as well as adding the first US appearance of the series Masks by Gone Girl's Gillian Flynn and the legendary Dave Gibbons.   The 200th issue will[...]

Hannah Means-Shannon is currently liveblogging the Diamond Retailer Breakfast at New York Comic Con. Where they have just announced Archie VS Predator, written by Alex De Campi, drawn by Fernando Ruiz. Archie goes on holiday and brings back a very interesting visitor to Riverdale…   Update – Here is the official word on this from Archie Comics: America's favorite teen meets the galaxy's fiercest[...]

I've known Alex de Campi forever Or maybe it just seems like it We knocked around in the same circles in London back in the late nineties and early noughties. I've always enjoyed her work and I think we ended up in the same volume of Commercial Suicide together And then there was *that* Brighton Comic[...]

And, after a brief one-sided spat with Kelly Sue DeConnick's upcoming Bitch Planet, Alex De Campi's Grindhouse: Doors Open At Midnight returns for a second showing Just in time for Christmas. Grindhouse 2.     Ho ho fucking ho. As ever, we can expect an insane mix of trope and offense with a surprising amount of character emerging from the mix[...]

Once upon a time I poisoned Alex de Campi. Some dodgy sausages at a barbeque at our place She threw up all over the patio I spent the next day picking it all out But we made up Now she's writing Lady Zorro for Dynamite, announced today, drawn by Rey Villega and based on the character introduced by[...]

What I didn't know is that the first one would be with Alex de Campi As a fan of her work, de Campi's answers really helped me to understand her process and get to know her a little better I'm very appreciative of her time and accessibility She was generous enough to give very thorough[...]

It's the sort of comic book that you want to show someone and say "you have to see this!" So, it's with both reluctance for my format busting and absolute enthusiasm for this comic that I keep coming back to Alex de Campi's insane midnight-movie-distilled-into-a-comic-book masterpiece, Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Here's what you need[...]

I promise to do better from now on. Alex De Campi I love being surprised by a comic I didn't know enough about That happened most memorably recently when I got a copy of Smoke/Ashes by Alex De Campi I had heard of it and definitely knew Smoke by reputation but I hadn't gotten around to reading[...]

And it's directed by My Little Pony: Friends Forever and Grindhouse: Doors Open At Midnight writer Alex De Campi. She writes, .@TheOtherMarioC Sometimes all a director has to do is get a bunch of amazing people in a room and then just stay the heck out of their way. — Alex de Campi (@alexdecampi) February 6, 2014 Directed &[...]

And what does this all have to do with The Fox? Things are heating up for a big finale and plenty of reveal, by the look of it. Grindhouse: Doors Open At Midnight returns from Dark Horse with a new two-part arc, "Bride of Blood", and like each arc, not only do we have a new[...]

By Evan Dorkin. Good job Alex De Campi and Carla Speed McNeil We'll destroy those little girl's minds, reference by reference. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London This week hosting an art battle between Savage Pencil and Chris Long, commencing this evening.. Battle of the Eyes (Savage Pencil & Chris Long) will be in residence from Wednesday evening,[...]

Next week sees the release of Elfquest: Final Quest, Deadly Class, All-New Invaders,  and Empire Of The Dead, the new My Little Pony: Friends Forever (by

If you aren't reading Rocket Girl yet, its time for a face-palm and a new start in 2014. Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight returns with part 2 of the "Prison Ship Antares" arc, with Simon Fraser's artwork on this two-parter alongside Alex de Campi's overarching writing on the series Colors by Gary Caldwell preserve a kind[...]

And who, you ask? Well, they include…Tim Seeley, Ales Kot, Ed Brisson, Alex de Campi, Frank Barbiere, Megan Hutchison, Fabian Rangel Jr, Matt Pizzolo, Matthew Rosenberg and Adam Egypt Mortimer. Here are the new stories, with a preview of the Tim Seeley contribution. "This Is You" Written by Tim Seeley Illustrated by Tim Seeley (pencils/inks), K[...]

Grindhouse: Doors Open At Midnight, from Dark Horse, is in its third issue, and that means it's on its second two-parter, each drawn by a different artist, with all written by Alex de Campi of Smoke and Ashes, and in January of My Little Pony with Carla Speed McNeil , a host of short films,[...]

Recently, Bleeding Cool favourite Alex De Campi has been writing Grindhouse for Dark Horse, a series of nasty, exploitative, seedy and downright disturbing comics. It's not that much of a jump to writing My Little Pony. And she's joined on art by one of my favourite comics artists, Carla Speed McNeil from Finder, on IDW's second ongoing[...]

Hannah Means-Shannon writes for Bleeding Cool: Dark Horse rounded up its horror writers for an extra-creepy panel on Friday morning at New York Comic Con, and Scott Allie, who "loves horror comics", asked "are you setting out to create scares or do you think that horror comics are about something else?" Alex de Campi says that Grindhouse[...]

Alex de Campi appeared for a signing of her new graphic novel collection Smoke and Ashes and the premier issue of her comic Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight, both from Darkhorse, at Midtown Comics Downtown on Thursday night and was happy to chat with fans about what's coming up for the Grindhouse series. She described the[...]

Grindhouse, scripted and lettered by Alex de Campi (Smoke/Ashes), with artwork on this issue by Chris Peterson, colors by Nolan Woodward, and a cover by Francesco Francavilla, is, quite simply, something that needs to exist in comics form We have our B-movie tradition, and our pulp literature tradition, and while that has inspired many comics,[...]

GRINDING DOWNTOWN Alex De Campi is signing her Grindhouse #1: Doors Open At Midnight at Midtown Comics Downtown on Thursday Doors open at 6.30pm. THANKS FOR ALL THE FLASH A thank you letter from retailer Dennis Barger to DC Comics; The best part was when you Dan announced at Boston that there would be allocations before FOC was due[...]

Alex de Campi and Igor Kordey produced the Eisner nominated-series Smoke from IDW in 2005 Fans wondered if there would be more, and in 2011, de Campi and Jimmy Broxton launched a highly successful Kickstarter for the series' sequel, entitled Ashes But that was the beginning of the rollercoaster ride, as the production of the[...]

Alex De Campi has just posted for people who backed the Ashes comic on Kickstarter It exists In very very physical form Honest. As a project that has had its fair share of ups and downs, she writes; The books are set to arrive via boat at Dark Horse in Oregon on or around Sept 13, then[...]

Issue 4 is 36 pages. Those now used to a 22 page or indeed 20 page standard comic chapter will get a real reading rush from Ashes by Alex De Campi and a whole bunch of artists, including Dan McDaid, Mack Chater, Milton & Felipe Sobreiro, Carla Speed McNeil, Colleen Doran, Richard Pace, Bill Sienkiewicz, Alice[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xStT6UT7o8[/youtube] Here's a look at Ashes writer Alex De Campi's latest music video for "Tuca Tuca" by Lush, starring Mira Manga of the Duloks… And go on, let's roll out the credits… Directed by: Alex de Campi Produced by: Carlos Carneiro for London Sessions Styled by: Charlotte Matheson Choreography by: David Beer of Collisions Dance Company Cinematography:[...]

Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's Happy,  Guarding The Globe, c0-created by The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman and Alex De Campi going digital-to-print with Valentine. We get a first description of Happy, which also explains the four issue mini-series' title. Meet NICK SAX – a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual[...]

Alex De Campi reports in the latest update to her Kickstarter-sourced graphic novel Ashes that caused considerable fuss earlier this year when De Campi fired the comic's co-creator James Hodgkins/Jimmy Broxton off the book. He was replaced by a series of name artists, including Igor Kordey who had drawn the original Smoke book, to which Ashes[...]

De Campi has announced that her digital  comic Valentine, drawn by Christine Larsen, will be published in print by Image Comics in August, with more digital chapters will follow. Of course, to me, she'll always be the one whose dried vomit I had to pick up out of the rockery in my garden after a particularly successful[...]