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Starting Wednesday, PlayStation owners in the city of Chicago will need to pay an extra 9% tax on some purchases due to the city's Amusement Tax A ruling back in 2015 by the city's department of finance extended the Amusement Tax to cover streaming content as well as more traditional forms of entertainment On Wednesday,[...]

Credit: (left) ReedPOP / (right) Syfy Wire ReedPOP and Syfy Wire are set to give fans who can't make it out to Chicago, Seattle or New York City this year the next best thing to being there, with the editorial arm of NBCUniversal's Syfy cable network striking a deal with the event producer to be the exclusive[...]

The first season was executive produced and directed by Bateman. Set in the dark and dangerous modern world of drug-money laundering, Ozark introduces us to financial planner Marty Byrde (Bateman), his wife Wendy (Linney) and their family's sudden relocation from their home in the Chicago suburbs to a summer resort community in The Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri[...]

Simpson) and Dwayne Johnson-Cochran (Love and Action in Chicago) Johnson-Cochran and Vance will write and star in the project, respectively, under Anthony Hemingway's (Underground, Shameless) direction; and all three will serve as executive producers. Set in 1988, Heist 88 tells the true story of arch-criminal and master manipulator Armand Moore (Vance), who persuaded four young African-American[...]

The cold, mean streets of The Windy City are about to get colder and meaner starting January 7, 2018, with the premiere of Showtime's The Chi.

Good news, Stranger Things fans! There's a very cool pop-up bar in Chicago's Logan Square celebrating everything Upside Down and Eggo waffles that's currently open and running until October 1st. But there's some bad news: I strongly advise that if you can make it there then you probably should; and if you do go, you might want[...]

Hey there, kids! We're going to get into spoilers for two PPV events that happened over the weekend: NXT's Takeover: Chicago and WWE's Backlash If you somehow haven't seen it or didn't read result yet, you should turn away and come back after you've properly watched them both Here's a photo of Tyler Breeze dressed[...]

On the first day of C2E2, Henn and I had a pretty good day. Henn admits he prefers to physically read, and smell, comics, while I'm a little more hesitant

Just like last year, Free Comic Book Day 2016 will have fifty titles to be given away on the first Saturday in May. Well, someone who didn't make the cut isn't stopping them. Ryan Browne, Mike Norton, Tim Seeley and Luke Smarto of Four Star Studios are making their own Free Comic Book Day title, and publishing[...]

The oldest comic book store in Chicago, Variety Comics, is closing after 41 years, their last day open will be on October 31st. It opened in the summer of 1974, in Chicago's rundown Lincoln Square neighbourhood In 1975, it was bought by Rich Vitone who run it until illness stopped him in 2009 After he died in 2011,[...]

From Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, courtesy of Erik Hodson…   Not going to happen…   From Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, courtesy of Erik Hodson…   Not going to happen…   From Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, courtesy of Erik Hodson…   Not going to happen…   From Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, courtesy of Erik Hodson…   Not going to happen…   [...]

Long time comics creator in the short form through mini-comics and anthologies, also acting as an editor of anthologies, Head is now releasing his first full length book through Fantagraphics this autumn: Chicago. It's the name of the city where he ended up at the age of 19, having left art school after a fairly[...]

And Kevin Smith helped with the advertising. But it seems to have been caught short, with dates in Chicago, meant to start on July 11th, as well as New York, and St Louis later in the year, have been cancelled as the show has closed in Philadelphia Organisers Hero Ventures promise they will rescheduled[...]

Courtesy of Carlos Morales and Peter G from C2E2 for Bleeding Cool... do you see yourself? Anyone you know?  

Only three-and-a-bit months to go until Chicago's biggest comic convention, C2E2…  here's Ryan Stegman's poster. Only three-and-a-bit months to go until Chicago's biggest comic convention, C2E2…  here's Ryan Stegman's poster. Only three-and-a-bit months to go until Chicago's biggest comic convention, C2E2…  here's Ryan Stegman's poster. Only three-and-a-bit months to go until Chicago's biggest comic convention,[...]

Chicago craft brewery, Arcade Brewery, announced today that it will release its first volume of 6-Pack Stories tomorrow. Festus Rotgut: Zombie Cowboy is a western zombie comic by Jason Aaron and Tony Moore across six bottles of Black Wheat Ale The beer was brewed after the story has been created… "Since there are zombies, I immediately thought something dark," said[...]

This morning, Bleeding Cool ran a report on a recent DC Retailer Summit at Chicago a couple of nights ago During which our anonymous retailer clerk took exception to some comments from Michigan retailer Dennis Barger of Wonderworld Comics We offered Dennis a right to reply And boy did he take it… This is exactly the[...]

A Chicago-based political action committee, Family-PAC has campaigned for voters to tell Representative Mike Smiddy to vote against last year's proposed marriage equality bill, saying children raised by same-sex couples will "never know their real parents" Family-PAC director Paul Caprio spoke in a robocall saying "Same-sex marriage denies children the right to know who their real[...]

After ECCC, DC Comics is lining up two new retailer roadshows, where they can show off their wares, answer questions, give away freebies, that kind of thing. The first will be on Thursday April 24th, the day before Chicago's C2E2 comic con and will probably be somewhere close by From 5pm to 8pm, do let me[...]

Peter G writes; Hello, it's me, your favorite Polish manga-ka, reporting from the Wizard World Chicago convention in Rosemont, Illinois I know a lot of people who read my report last year are wondering if things got any better So, rather than bury the lead, let's get to the shit! WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS, TO THE SHOW[...]

Pete Holland writes from Wizard World Chicago Comic Con. In the autograph area at the 2013 Wizard World Chicago Con was something calling itself The Next Geek Thing  Didn't seem to be a vendor or anything, people went in the door and came out  It's some sort of competition  You pitched your idea to the camera[...]

and a signed Julian Tedesco variant from Wizard World Philadelphia went for $500. No wonder at New York, people were standing at the front of the show offering to buy copies of the Neal Adams Walking Dead #1 variant, getting Neal to sign them and putting them on eBay straught away. Turns out, Ethan Van Sciver is[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4rSRdiRD30[/youtube] All credit to the ten video teams who put this together over the weekend of Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, with hundreds of cosplays joined by Bruce Campbell, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Katrina Law, Nicole & Brianna Garcia, Jon Bernthal, Adrianne Curry and David Della Rocco…   [...]

Peter G wrote for Bleeding Cool from Wizard World Chicago; Ladies and gentlemen, this is Peter G, your captain, speaking I'm afraid that we are running into some rough patches on this trip through the 2012 Wizard World Chicago convention Absolutely nothing to be concerned about However, please observe we have turned on the "Fasten Seatbelts"[...]

It is just as much me as him.  It is "what happens when these two crazy fucking guys join psyches?".  It was a lot of fun.  The fourth book is just now finished and I already miss it. Taylor:  Like sending the kids off to school? Menton:  Yeah. Taylor:  Do you live geographically close together or is[...]

Peter G writes for Bleeding Cool from Chicago; Well, here we are in Chicago, Illinois, home of great food, bad sports teams, and dead people who somehow still vote It is the third annual C2E2 convention from Reed, held on the shores of Lake Michigan at McCormick Place. Unlike Wizard World in Rosemont, there's no tolls to[...]

(They're calling it the "first EVER Doctor Who crossover", though I believe Death's Head appearance in the old Marvel UK magazine holds that title.)  Also from that panel, the word that their Will Eisner's Spirit Artist Edition is "even bigger than the Wally Wood one" has me thinking about rearranging my shelves to make room. [...]

Alex Wilson begins our C2E2 cosplay journey with a TikiStormtrooper... Taylor Ramsey writes; This year's C2E2 had a really eclectic batch of costumes

UPDATE: We found the bag! But lost another. Details here. Once upon a time, someone grabbed a portfolio off me and ran off the train. It contained two

Matthew Diener writes for Bleeding Cool from C2E2. This panel included Dan Slott, current writer of Amazing Spider-Man, Ryan Stegman, current artist on