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It is meant to include the artists whose work was used to develop Midjourney's AI art offering. They include comic book creators such as Tim Bradstreet, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Art Spiegelman, Brian Bolland, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Watterson, Bill Willingham, Ben Templesmith, Adi Granov, Al Davidson, Alex Toth, Arthur Rackham, Arthur Suydam, Scott McCloud, Ryan North, Mort Drucker,[...]

A number of comic book creators, or those adjacent, have been making comments on the attacks. Josh Blaylock: Heart goes out today to the people of Israel and Palestine. Bill Willingham: My thoughts and prayers are with Israel today My thoughts are these: Destroy Hamas completely this time, so thoroughly that nothing can rise from the ashes[...]

Recently, Fables creator Bill Willingham told us he was going to give a big explanation as to why the new Fables series, The Black Forest, was so late, and that it would be expected My expectation was that it was down to Mark Buckingham's schedule drawing Fables and both co-writing and drawing Miracleman Instead, Bill[...]

I have to confess that Bill Willingham, choosing to state that his comic book series Fables was to be considered public domain, when it is using almost entirely public domain characters anyway, was chutzpah of the highest order From Snow White to Jack Frost to Red Riding Hood, albeit given a noir filter, that was[...]

Bill Willingham makes it twice into Bleeding Cool's top ten yesterday Mirror, mirror on the wall… No matter what the world throws at you, at Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and[...]

Earlier in the week, Bill Willingham, creator of Fables, posted – in response to reports that the final issues of Fables: The Black Forest were getting later and later – that he was firing DC Comics And that the reasons would not be ones we presumed I had presumed it wss down to artist Mark[...]

Bill Willingham is the author and co-creator of the series Fables at DC Comics, which launched from its Vertigo imprint in 2002 and concluded in 2015 Willingham has written the entire main series, currently heading towards #162, plus all manner of spin-offs, with Mark Buckingham pencilling more than 110 issues It was revived in 2022[...]

Fire And Ice #1 by Bill Willingham and Leonardo Manco is out next month and is going to FOC right about… now! Which is why we get a look inside those first pages… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ More than[...]

Dynamite Comics has a Fire And Ice comic book based on the 1983 animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi and a collaboration between Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, based on characters co-created by Bakshi and Frazetta, from a screenplay written by Conan comics writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas, in its new August 2023 solicitsWritten by Bill Willingham and drawn by Leonardo Manco[...]

DC Comics has announced the return of the popular DC Vertigo series Fables with Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham as a DC Black Label beginning with Fables #151 as well as a six-issue mini-series Batman vs Bigby! A Wolf in Gotham by Bill Willingham with pencils by Brian Level, inks by Jay Leisten, and colours[...]

Bill Willingham, creator of Elementals from Comico, Coventry from Fantagraphics and Fables from DC Comics, is writing a one-shot Vampirella comic for September, Trial Of The Soul Here's the solicitation, along with everything else Dynamite has coming out in September, including more Vampirella, Dejah Thoris and The Boys. VAMPIRELLA TRIAL OF THE SOUL ONE SHOT CVR[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The 10 most-read stories yesterday A-List Marvel Creator Admits to Tracing Other Creators' Work So Why Were Copies of Marvel Comics' Incoming #1 Destroyed Anyway? "Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3" Reveals Several New X-Men Skins Confirmed: The Venom Island of Venom #21 is The Same One From Amazing Spider-Man #347 3,124,461[...]

It also includes The Greatest Adventure #1 by Bill Willingham and Cezar Rezak And we have the first issue of the series here for you to read for free. In ancient days, Jason gathered the greatest heroes of his age and set out on the ultimate sea voyage Now, in Tarzan's era, Jason Gridley does the[...]

Presented in the European Album format (same as the recent Animosity: the Rise hardcover for LCSD), this handsome hardcover features the creative talents of Bill Willingham, Marguerite Bennett, Mike Carey, Jim Starlin, Michael Zulli, Charles Vess, Michael Gaydos, Andy Clarke, Andrew Robinson, Sarah Delaine, Phil Hester, Paul Jenkins, Neil Gaiman, Dalibor Talajic, Travis Moore, Brian Azzarello, Francesco[...]

Comics veteran Bill Willingham's Lark's Killer continues its run with DC Comics artist Travis Moore (JSA All-Stars). Malefic, under Dan Schaffer, and Lords of Gore, by D B Stanley, continue their runs with #5 and #4 respectively. Lark's Killer #6 1/10/18 (W) Bill Willngham (A) Travis Moore (C) Sean Forney Cover A – Travis Moore, Cover B – Sam Lofti, Cover C – Bill Willingham Wrapping up the first LARK'S KILLER[...]

Lark's Killer by Bill Willingham and Mark Dos Santos is 1First Comics' big launch of 2017 The first brand new comic created by Willingham since Fables. And those at Phoenix Comicon can get a 33 page preview of what's in store with the Lark's Killer 2017 Phoenix Comicon preview for $20 at booths 647,746, AA1613. Those lucky enough to[...]

The Elementals was a superhero team written and drawn by Bill Willingham and published by Comicon in the mid-eighties A dark superhero story, it was very much a precursor, in audience at least, for the success of Miracleman, Watchmen, Dark Knight, The One and more. It ran for years,m and was the thing Willingham was best[...]

The series pulls together the bast creations of author Edgar Rice Burroughs into a single epic adventure written by Bill Willingham and drawn be Cezar Rezak Covers for the first issue are by Cary Nord, Rags Morales and Roberto Castro and the book goes on sale April 12th. I got to chat with Willingham about the[...]

When Dynamite announced The Greatest Adventure, a new comic series featuring the vast universe of characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the thing that got me the most interested was that Bill Willingham (Fables) was going to be writing it If anyone could pull together characters like Tarzan, John Carter and the Mucker into a[...]

1First/Devil's Due is releasing Bill Willingham's first fantasy series since Fables, later this year. Announcing at ComicsPRO, there's a page in the retailers' programme which one wily fellow forwarded on to Bleeding Cool. Total teaser No art yet Expect an announcement tomorrow, I guess…   1First/Devil's Due is releasing Bill Willingham's first fantasy series since Fables, later this[...]

In the series, Bill Willingham not only gets us to question exactly how 'legendary' is supposed to be spelled, but he gives a steampunk make-over to the heroes of the Dynamite Universe including the Green Hornet, Kato, Vampirella, Red Sonja, The Six Million Dollar Man and more The new look characters are drawn by Sergio[...]

Bill Willingham (Fables) is teaming up with artist Cezar Rezak (Warlord of Mars) for an all-new limited series featuring the Edgar Rice Burroughs characters of Tarzan, Korak, John Carter and Dejah Thoris The Greatest Adventure is a planet-hopping series that starts when a crash landing reveals a secret plot by a mysterious cabal of scientists to[...]

This is an excellent way to not only expand your digital comic library with some amazing authors like George R R Martin, Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Dean Koontz, Neil Gaiman, Bill Willingham, Patricia Briggs, J Michael Straczynski, Kevin Smith and Grant Morrison… but you can also help the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Doctors Without[...]

Initially presented as an all-male panel led by Bill Willingham, author of the recently-concluded Fables series for DC/Vertigo, it received considerable criticism from The Mary Sue, criticism that a number of its panellists agreed with. @GeneHa @GailSimone @sarilys13 @TheMarySue @Lexxercise I tweeted at @cox_caro praising her for the article It was needed. — Jim Zub (@JimZub) July[...]

In July, the Fables series will come to an end, culminating in an original graphic novel and final volume to the series, Fables: Farewell. The 168 page book, both issue 150 and volume 22 of the collections in one. The book features a 78 page Farewell story by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy and[...]

Let me name drop: * Michael Avon Oeming (The Victories, Powers) * Bill Willingham (Fables, Angel) * Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise, Echo) * Mark Waid (Daredevil, Kingdom Come) * Jim Demonakos (Emerald City Comicon Director) * Steve Sunu (Editor, Comic Book Resources Reviews) * Steve Geppi (President/CEO of Diamond Comic Distributor) That is just a small sample of the many other professionals, mainstream and[...]

Announced at ECCC at the 10 Years of Mouse Guard panel came the news that in July, Archaia will publish through Boom! Studios, an oversized hardcover collecting ten years of Mouse Guard art by David Petersen, including work by Mike Mignola, Stan Sakai, Bill Willingham and more, in The Art Of Mouse Guard 2005-2015. One foot by one[...]

With Dynamite spinning off three different miniseries (Red Sonja, Green Hornet and Vampirella), it only seems appropriate that we share with out readers one of the issues of Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure written by Fables creator Bill Willingham and art by Sergio Fernandez Davila. The original series is on sale this week at Comixology. With Dynamite[...]

Into God, who is, by the same principle that time is." *The dubious honour I speak of is held by Robin: Unmasked by Bill Willingham It was the first objectively bad comic I ever read, and it is the reason that to this day I've never quite been able to give Willingham's work a fair trial[...]

Dynamite has their big Mega Holiday Humble Bundle available now here and to help promote it, they've sent over a digital copy of Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure #1 by Bill Willingham and Sergio Fernandez Davila This book not only reimagines Dynamite's characters in a new way, but it also is the set up to the[...]