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Boom recently solicited the final issues of Darkwing and Duck Tales for October, series that had been praised when originally published Less so now. Especially when the most recent issue appears to have been cut and pasted together from of clip art Here's an example with some of the more obvious reusing of artwork. Well, at least[...]

Peter Svensson writes for Bleeding Cool; Chip Mosher, Boom's head of marketing, was fired during their panel on Friday by CEO Ross Richie and Editor in Chief Matt Gagnon. Not really of course It was all part of the massive joke that their panel devolved into, as a single fan's frustration at the panel being the "Same[...]

A few weeks ago, Boom! Studios laid off a number of employees, including Christopher Meyer (Kids Editor) Travis Beatty (Traffic Manager) and Brett Grinnell (Executive Assistant to Ross Richie). And this came hot on the heels of last month's dismissal of traffic manager Neil Loughrie. Ex-Boom employee, Aaron Sparrow has numbered the amount of redundancies[...]

With the trade paperback of Stan Lee's The Traveler coming out from Boom! Studios this week (although actually by Mark Waid and Chad Hardin), here's an opportunity read the entire first issue For free. With the trade paperback of Stan Lee's The Traveler coming out from Boom! Studios this week (although actually by Mark Waid[...]

Here's a preview of Roger Langridge's Snarked #0, shipping from Kaboom! in August, before the October #1 launch proper, reinterpreting the Lewis Carroll Alice worlds in even more weird and wonderful ways. And in the same month, from Boom! Town comes a collection of a number of Langridge's previously uncollected strips, including work from his webcomic[...]

Boom! Studios appeat to have registered the website www.stansbackformore.com which means we can probably look forward to more Stan Lee branded superhero comics written by other people, but launched and promoted by Stan at this year's San Diego Comic Con, for publication in September. If previous form is anything to go by. UPDATE: Or not[...]

The Ghost Key from Locke & Key on the left from IDW in 2008, Hellraiser from Boom in 2011… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the reader, to[...]

This is Bleeding Cool's first "Exclusive" content from Boom! Studios I mean, we've had exclusive content before but I think this is the first time it's been offical I wonder what could have changed… So yes, anyway, a preview of Boom's first Planet Of The Apes #1, a prequel to the original movie by Daryl Gregory[...]

Svensson writes for Bleeding Cool Boom Studio's Director of Marketing Chip Mosher and Editor in Chief Matt Gagnon held court at Wondercon for a panel on editing comics Sadly, I was only able to attend the last half. A fan asked about how Boom acquires its licensed titles Mosher explained that licensed properties[...]

Happy reading and happy rereading. Also out this week is Hellraiser #1 from Boom! written by Clive Barker and Christopher Monfette and drawn by Leonardo Manco Also out is this free Hellraiser Prelude, available digitally, from the same team Hellraiser all but made the Marvel Epic line back in the day, with contributors including Neil Gaiman[...]

We know that Boom has the new Hellraiser series with #1 coming out today, based on the Clive Barker authored franchise and written by Barker and Cristopher Monfette. Well, here for Bleeding Cool readers, is a brand new prelude to that series, written by Clive Barker, drawn by series artist Leonardo Manco Downloadable Free Just make[...]

And now Avatar. But instead of going it alone, Avatar are partnering with fellow publisher Boom and using their distributors Simon & Schuster in the US and Harper Collins Canada. Boom's CEO Ross Richie is quoted in a press release saying "The Avatar library is an excellent compliment to the existing BOOM! list that doesn't cannibalize[...]

Roger Langridge has let loose a few unpublished pages he created for Boom! Studios when it was all loved up on Disney and The Muppet Show, and does seem to confirm that Boom! doesn;t have that license anymore He writes; As far as I understand it, the unpublished work I've done for Boom isn't technically[...]

No sooner are Boom embroiled in a trademark battle over the use of the word "Kaboom" in a comics publishing context, than they may have a battle with DC on their hands… okay, no, not really, this is the "homage" thing that few people have an issue with, though some publishers may choose to[...]

The people IDW licensed the material from claimed they owned the full rights to the work, even if Len and Jill believed they hadn't signed those kind of rights away. Did something like that happen here? But it does feel slightly odd for Tom Brevoort to make this point, a senior employee at Marvel, a company which[...]

Boom! Studios are publishing Planet Of The Apes in April, a prequel to the original movie, written by Daryl Gregory and drawn by Carlos Magno . We linked to this in this morning's Runaround… but looking around, not too many people seems to have mentioned it So, let's give[...]

At the grand age of 88, Stan Lee has comic projects in double figures from several publishers and is, reportedly, getting his hands dirty with most of

In June, Boom! Studios will publish the first volume of their Walt Disney Treasury: Donald Duck series, collecting chronologically the Duck stories of Don Rosa, with volume 2 coming in August. Boom describes the book; With its new series, WALT DISNEY TREASURY, BOOM Kids! brings you classic Disney stories, never-before-collected in North America In this first volume,[...]

Ooookay, this is going to hurt, Dark Horse solicited Michael Moorcock's Elric Of Melniboné Vol 1 for January. Collecting the comic book adaptations of

On the left is the Midtown Comics variant cover to Stan Lee's Soldier Zero drawn by Javier Pina. And on the right, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Silver

It's a pleasure to see the comic book measure up to that standard. The Incredibles: Family Matters #3 by Mark Waid and Marcio Takara, from Boom! Studios, today. I was recently talking about how the superpower theme in comics is mostly used to represent adolescent rage, that half world between being a child and an adult,[...]

I once went round to Roger Langridge's apartment in Chelsea, London. Lovely fellow, Roger. You can tell how long ago this is, because Roger had a large

The new Previews catalogue for July from Diamond Distribution features new Boom! Studios solicitations for what are known as "the Mouse and the Duck" titles It was rumoured in my last Lying In The Gutters column that Boom! had taken the licences from Diamond Distribution-linked publisher Gemstone. They are also continuing the previous series' numbering system[...]

And the company of which he is now Editor In Chief, Boom! are putting out some insanely fine comics and shaking things up in a most entertaining fashion. But this is where I think things went wrong yesterday I'd been planning a rather sweet positive comics industry story that made mention of a single tweet from[...]