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Sometimes, you see something and have to say it's just plain wrong. Just as wrong in fact, just as addle-headed, as the arguments advanced by the One Million Moms organisation when they wrote to Toys R Us (and exhorted their members to do the same) demanding that a recent issue of Life with Archie be removed[...]

Life With Archie #16, featuring the marriage of Kevin Keller to his boyfriend on the cover, in full military attire, sold today for $50 a pop on eBay These were "Buy It Now" listings, the actual price people might be willing to pay could be higher still. The initial media fuss caused by the comic seemed[...]

Archie Comics continues to give more of a real life take on modern society for a young audience than it may have done so in the past, and in the process making the likes of DC and Marvel look like old fuddy duddies. In the new Life With archie, which has explored a number of these[...]

This will conclude a three-year run by the writer that began with 2009's FANTASTIC FOUR #570. DCNationWatch: Anyone watching DC Nation? MailWatch: Not even the Daily Mail commentators can get behind the One Million Moms on the Archie issue. OMM are just a group of holier than thou bible thumbers who think the way they believe is the[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5OSoJS0OrA[/youtube] Grace Randolph says "Wondering how to become a comic book artist? Host Grace Randolph talks to comic book artist Fernando Ruiz about his work on Archie Marries Veronica and Kevin Keller gets married, as well as Ruiz's alma matter The Joe Kubert School for comic book art where he currently teaches! Aspiring comic book artists,[...]

The One Million Moms may have demanded that Toys R Us remove the Life With Archie comic, featuring a future Kevin Keller marrying his intended But it looks like Toys R Us probably won't have been able to comply Because customers beat them to it by buying the comic. Life With Archie #16 has sold out[...]

UPDATE: John Goldwater, c0-CEO of Archie Comics has responded to the story below He writes; "We stand by Life with Archie #16 As I've said before, Riverdale is a safe, welcoming place that does not judge anyone It's an idealized version of America that will hopefully become reality someday We're sorry the American Family Association/OneMillionMoms.com feels[...]

But she brought Archie Comics' Alex Segura with her, to talk about Kevin Keller, Life WIth Archie Archie/KISS and so much more And she promised Tuesday's Stacktastic, also part of her Think About The Ink video blogs for Bleeding Cool, will be bagn on time…   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UjtckEUHAE[/youtube] Grace apologises for the delay to this week's Between The[...]

And it was done in the most matter-of-fact manner, thus; Occupy Riverdale – It's Happening, Here's The Jill Thompson Art To Prove It (UPDATE) This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth[...]

This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from Archie[...]

Archie Comics has been through a number of changes of late By launching a Riverdale series with a gay male lead, and putting a same sex wedding on the cover of Life With Archie, they've rapidly become the most openly progressive mainstream comics publisher. But would they really also republish Brian Bendis' graphic novel Jinx, a[...]

Irony, thy name is Archie Comics. Bleeding Cool has been following the issues regarding Nancy Silberkeit, co-CEO of Archie Comics, and her conflict with co-CEO Jonathan Goldwater, in a manner that puts Alex De Campi Vs James Hodgkins/Jimmy Broxton to shame. Jonathan Goldwater is suing to remove Silberkleit as director and co-CEO of the publisher, stating "Unless[...]

for the evils of levitation, it's never a Christianity I recognise. And neither is the response of Christian Response Alerts to Life With Archie #16, featuring a gay wedding on the cover. The response is sadly predictable, but it has one line that not only staggers the mind but also the funny bone I had to check[...]

SimileWatch: Richard Cohen compares Mitt Romney to Reggie off of Archie Comics. He has the coldness of Reggie from the "Archie" comics — the guy who had everything except, notably, his name on the cover. StripWatch: The new Let's Be Friends takes a little Bleeding Cool inspiration. FeedWatch: Fiona Staples responds to Dave Dorman's breastfeeding blog post to[...]

KevinWatch: Everyone's talking Archie! The Daily Mail, Huffington, Tim, Fox News… it's going to get busy! MooreWatch: Alan Moore on sexism in comics in the eighties. Miss Arrowette would reduce gangs of criminals to spluttering, coughing helplessness by engulfing them in clouds of talc from her 'Powder-Puff Arrow' Batgirl would dazzle villains by reflecting the sun's rays[...]

The BBC report on the return of the British comic the DFC under the name The Phoenix. "Comic novel writer, Kate Brown is serialising her story called The Lost Boy over 35 weeks in The Phoenix. She has been working on the story and artwork since the spring and has completed about a third of the work." "The Oxford writer Philip Pullman[...]

ArchieWatch: ABC looks at changes at Archie Comics – both gay and digital… video platform video management video solutions video player It is not of course the first same sex marriage in comics history Not even in mainstream comics, The Authority got there first… GameWatch: Top Cow try to persuade people that American footballer Lance Briggs' upcoming comic[...]

But then a toy company went and sued. Anyway, now Stan Lee's The Mighty 7, created with Archie Comics, is scheduled to launch in March. The solicitation reads; "How it all Began!" – Stan Lee Comics presents "MIGHTY 7," a sensational new superhero property from the creator of Spider-Man, the X-Men and more!! When a crew of sinister,[...]

USA Today reports a new future Archie storyline that sees him not married to Betty or Veronica, but Valerie from Josie And The Pussycats. I don't think she actually is a half human, half feline hybrid It might just be a costume But right now I can't remember Archie for Brits is like Tintin for the[...]

In 1969, ABC News's 20/20 investigative program exposed a scam from habitual conman, government informant and convicted felon, John Ellsworth and his International Children's Appeal, linked to the United Nations and coinciding with the International Year of The Child. Instead, it was a way for Ellsworth to launder drugs and gun money, and a way to[...]

  He was Archie Comics' first openly gay character Then in a future world, he'll take part in Archie's first same-sex marriage And now… could he be Archie Comics' first gay President? Class President that is Here's a preview of Kevin Keller #4, shipping from Archie Comics next week.   He was Archie Comics' first[...]

Towards the end of an interview with the Washington City Paper, Michael Uslan talked about his upcoming plans for writing Archie comic, with all the divergent future timelines And the Archie Multiverse… "Since the Archie wedding I began to plant clues that there is a linked Archie multiverse At the center of it is Dilton Doiley[...]

This is the new cover to the upcoming Life With Archie #16, the comic which envisions possible futures for Archie characters. And this upcoming issue features the gay inter racial wedding of soldier Kevin Keller and his intended On the cover Of an Archie comic. All you folks who have been waiting for the future to happen?[...]

In America 2012, the only mainstream publisher with an ongoing comic starring an openly gay male lead will be Archie Comics How things have changed. Coming out in January, Kevin Keller #1 Here are a couple of covers. In America 2012, the only mainstream publisher with an ongoing comic starring an openly gay male lead[...]

In another NYCC warm-up announcement, Jon Goldwater, co-chief executive of Archie, told the New York Times that the company will revive its stable of superhero characters using a digital subscription model which will offer a mix of both new and classic material: Besides the possibility of reaching an audience beyond the comic book stores, there was[...]

5% discount on older comics and collections ordered in November if one of their customers fills it in, and 5% off in December is a retail staffer fills in their version of the survey… ArchieWatch: CNN gives Archie some respect In case you hadn't noticed, Archie's hometown has made some big headlines recently Last year, Archie[...]

But only Bleeding Cool can bring you the left-on-the-photocopier-at-Montreal Comic Con first page of the first issue of Archie Meets KISS… We've seen the covers Some of us may have read the New York Post article But only Bleeding Cool can bring you the left-on-the-photocopier-at-Montreal Comic Con first page of the first issue of Archie[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran the story that Kevin Keller was getting married to his boyfriend in a future "what if" issue of Life With Archie – the same issue in which Archie gets a separation from his wife, Veronica. Fox News' headline says Archie Comics Announces Gay Character Will Marry — Will Anyone Object? So, did they?[...]

Can you believe such a comic book could have existed from Archie Comics just a few years ago? In Life With Archie #16, which looks at the world of a twenty-somthing Archie cast has recently created gay character Kevin Keller returning from war to get married to his partner in Riverdale And everyone turns up to[...]

This is Francesco Francavilla's variant cover to Archie #628 with Archie Meets Kiss Part Two I think it's rather spectacular I'm suddenly wondering what a Vertigo Archie comic would look like. And here's the standard cover by Dan Parent Which, you know, isn't bad or anything… This is Francesco Francavilla's variant cover to Archie #628 with[...]