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It's nearly go time for the floor opening of New York Comic Con 2013, with a little over two hours remaining until the throngs arrive, with panels already

Tomorrow sees the release of Afterlife With Archie #1 Which sees zombies rise and take over Riverdale And what leads them to this situation? Jughead using the magic of Sabrina The Teenage Witch to bring his dear departed Hotdog back from the dead. And how is she doing it? With, it seems, the Necronomicon, the Book[...]

321 views and two thumbs up in eleven days for this trailer for Mark Waid and Dean Haspiel's revival of The Fox for Archie Comics? That's clearly not enough… come on Little Bleeders, lets get that number up a little, it looks great! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJTpa4EA7Pc[/youtube] And a preview of the first issue below… [...]

The zombie reinvention of Riverdale is on the way and Archie Comics, for the first time, have created individual retailer covers, featuring the retailer in question, being menaced by a zombie jughead Here are the covers, with the retailer links in question listed below… Alternate Realities Amazing Stories Another Dimension Comics Big Planet Comics Bob's Hobbies & Collectibles Bosco's Captain Nemo Coliseum Of[...]

Kevin Keller's Glad To Be Me by Dan Parent heads up year of collections from Archie Comics in 2014, including their first mature readers title, Afterlife With Archie and the return of private detective Sam Hill from Tom DeFalco and Greg Scott. Sonic Saga Series 5: Enerjak Reborn (paper original) On Sale Date: February 11, 2014 $11.99[...]

It's been a while since we've heard from Nancy Silberkleit, the co-CEO of Archie Comics, after her legal fight with the rest of the company, with suits and counter suits flying until they finally settled. But now she is suing Samuel Levitin, her long standing friend and liasion to Archie Comics, for sexual harassment, stating that[...]

Well timed… Fiona Staples' cover for Archie Comics in November…  Paul Pope draws The Fox variant cover also for November I mean, it's no Scooby Doo… Uber runs a homage to Action Comics #1 in its Homage Variant from Bleeding Cool owners Avatar Press. And a joyous Red Sonja #2 variant from Larry's Comics. [...]

Again, one of those headlines that ten years, I couldn't have even envisaged. In an interview with Back2Stonewall, Archie writer Dan Parent has revealed that the Archie gang will no longer be travelling to Russia in their upcoming foreign adventures, due to their newly announced anti-gay laws He told the site; "Yes Russia should be boycotted, so[...]

But in today's issue of Archie Comics, Kevin Keller says goodbye to his boyfriend in a store, with a kiss. And, in a parody of One Million Moms' boycott, a concerned parent expresses outrage and gets thirty like-minded parents to express similar concern about such same-sex public displays of affection. Talking to Huffington Post, Kevin Keller creator[...]

We also stop by four different publishers this month: Dynamite, Archie, Aspen, and Avatar. DC COMICS Some gains on the creative sign were countered by losses in editorial, but ultimately DC was up this month In May 2013, DC put out 76 new comics featuring 702 credited creators, 619 men and 83 women Here are their stats: Editors[...]

It was a Bleeding Cool scoop from San Diego Comic Con that retailers were going to be asked not to stack Afterlife With Archie with their other comic books But it looks like it's going further than that. Today, Archie Comics made it official, with ex-Marvel's Jim Sokolowski telling comic book retailers; I've been hearing that some[...]

We'd recently reported on Ken Penders' court case against Archie Comics, and the ludicrous court transcript with Archie Comics expressing a desire to settle but unable to because of issues with Sega. Since then, I understand that Archie Comics has settled with Ken Penders over issues regarding the rights to Knuckles characters he created for the[...]

Swamp Thing and Batman 72 artist Francesco Francavilla will draw Afterlife With Archie, the new zombie Archie comic from Archie Comics, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa out in October. And why is Riverdale overrun with the Walking Dead? Well it's all down to one Sabrina the Teenage Witch unleashing a Deadworld spell. It wasn't that long ago that[...]

That Archie kiss, the Star Wars rebel animated series and cosplay do's and don'ts, presented by Toni Darling and Yvette Artiega. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AGvt2NIv-g[/youtube] Welcome to The Weekly Bleed… That Archie kiss, the Star Wars rebel animated series and cosplay do's and don'ts, presented by Toni Darling and Yvette Artiega. [...]

Kevin Keller, published by Archie Comics and created by Dan Parent has won the GLAAD prize for Outstanding Comic Book. The GLAAD awards celebrate LGBT portrayals in the mass media, and were presented at the weekend in San Francisco at the Hilton Union Square Other nominations included Astonishing X-Men, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batwoman and Earth[...]

Who doesn't love an open transcript of a court session? Such as the latest round of Archie Comics Vs Ken Penders over those pesky rights to the characters he created for the Sonic Comics, and their later use in other comics, and games? On last Thursday, May 2, 2013, beginning at 10:03AM in Judge Berman's court[...]

Now we can start to do the same to Archie! Welcome to M.A.C Archie's Girls, available at maccosmetics.com on January 30th,  from NYC M·A·C Stores January 31 st, all other US locations February 7th, and international in March. Betty and Veronica – the names alone are a vivid four-color flashback to an era of sweet, comic[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by James Kuhoric American comic books have always had the stigma of being aimed at kids. It’s been that way in public

Three years ago, comic book writer Ken Penders began a series of legal actions against Archie Comics and Sega for the exploitation of characters he created for the Sonic comic, in other comics, games and cartoons which, he stated, he had never agreed to sell to the company. Archie Comics and Sega fought back claiming hat[...]

Fiona Staples' cover to Life with Archie #24 is being remade as a Josie And The Pussycat 18" x 24" poster to giveaway sell from Archie Comics at New York Comic Con Only 150 to spare… from booth #1720 if you are lucky! Fiona Staples' cover to Life with Archie #24 is being remade as[...]

Two panels at New York Comic Con, one on Friday, one on Sunday, with all attendees getting a free goodie bag, which, in total, will add up to $50,000. The

Which, even for Diamond, is unusual. Bleeding Cool has been following the legal case in which Ken Penders is suing Archie Comics and Sega for use of characters created when he wrote the Sonic The Hedgehog comics, and have now appeared in other comics and games as a result. Now it seems he has scored his first[...]

Then he went to work in publicity at DC Comics, so naturally he wasn't allowed to speak to me anymore. But working for Archie Comics, rising to Vice President – Publicity and Marketing, we seemed to get on like a house on fire I admired his marketing reaches, getting Archie publicity in the unlikeliest of places[...]

Time for Archie to hit the political controversy of the age full on. In an election year, when the bankers and businessmen are portrayed as both angels and demons, with neither side giving an inch, it's time for Archie to make his choice when Occupy comes to Riverdale The 99% or 1%? Unfettered capitalism vs social democratic? Betty[...]

USA Today announces that this next year's big Archie news will be a four issue crossover in comic book form with the TV show Glee. They state that the characters of Finn Hudson, Kurt Hummel and Rachel Berry will go toe to toe and step to step with Archie, Betty, Veronica and Dilton Doiley. What, no Kevin[...]

Two comics, two companies, a little bit of synchronicity it seems... Here's a new comic for October from Dynamite, Vampirella Vs Fluffy. A Buffy parody

In a thumbing-their-nose-at-One-Million-Moms act, Archie Comics is reprinting again Life With Archie #16 that featured the same-sex wedding of Kevin Keller and his boyfriend, for a specil San Diego Comic Con edition. Co-CEO Jon Goldwater told Bleeding Cool; "LIFE WITH ARCHIE #16 is a landmark issue for Archie and comics in general We broke new ground with[...]

She may be drawing the most horrifying creatures unknown to man, for Saga. But she's also drawing some of the most delightful creatures as well. Here's the cover to Life With Archie #24, by Fiona Staples, for September. Hmmph, where have their tails gone? And their ears? It's an outrage, I tell you, an outrage.   [...]

What's next for Archie Comics to hit the headlines? Why, gender swapping of course Courtesy of Sabrina The Teenage Witch. In August's edition of Archie Comics, Archie becomes Archina, and Betty and Veronica become Billy and Ronnie. It's time for a heady examination of gender politics in the lives of teenagers. And, yes, yes, Archie does indeed appear to[...]

Because this winter it will be Archie VS Kiss Presumably in some kind of battle-of-the-bands scenario Well, I suppose the residents of Riverdale and the members of KISS are equally preposterous and fictitious, so why not? Thank you BuzzFeed. They "met" in a previous crossover But now it seems as if they've got some Avengers[...]