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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[...]

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[...]