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Schrodt writes; Greetings and Merry Christmas to the dedicated readers of Bleeding Cool! My name is Ryan L Schrodt and I am best known for my contribution to Mark Millar's CLiNT Magazine and for my ongoing webcomic Dear Dinosaur (found every Thursday at www.twoforonecomics.com) In the spirit of Christmas, I am giving all of you a[...]

So what did your favourite comic book people get for Christmas today? And then post on Twitter? Here's a look… ONE PUNY GOD On the first day of Christmas, Kieron Gillen got a felt oversized Loki helmet. TWO BLU RAYS: Scott Snyder had the compelete Complete Batman and Superman animated series. They always used to describe the Daleks[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1K-76L-Eqk[/youtube] Patrick Willems brings you the season of Christmas NOGGING! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1K-76L-Eqk[/youtube] Patrick Willems brings you the season of Christmas NOGGING! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1K-76L-Eqk[/youtube] Patrick Willems brings you the season of Christmas NOGGING! [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nlHQ7J2-kc I'm heading back from London right now. Sadly I didn't see either of these two.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y0Blx7128A Lashings and lashings and lashings of soft focus...

The Phoenix Weekly comic book is, basically, the best comic book ever created for children. Better than The Eagle, better then Tiger, better than early

Also Mrs Brown takes a trip in the TARDIS. You don't suppose... she could be the next regeneration, could she? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nayRp165R4A

While swearing and smoking a lot. Madman Twentieth Anniversary Volume Personalised by Michael Allred If fact there plenty of other authors and artists raising money for the CBLDF by personalising volumes of their work in time for Christmas. The Invisibles Omnibus An incredible, life changing comic… for the author as well as the readers[...]

Amazing Spider-Man #698 has already gone to a second print for, you know, obvious reasons. And Marvel are promising more mind boggling occurrences in

This year, new comic books day lands on Boxing Day. December the 26th to all you plebians. So while Diamond won't be making a delivery that day, they are

He's going to find out if your comic book retailer has been naughty or nice. It appears that, just as in 2009, there will be no comic book delivery on Christmas week in 2012, as the usual delivery day falls on Christmas Day. Last time, DC Comics shipped Blackest Night #6 a week early, to be sold[...]

From Comic Book Nerds Are Hot, a look at some nativity scenes with a little help from DC, Marvel and Star Wars. Hawkman as the Angel Gabriel is inspired.

 Rich wrapped some presents earlier, and has them ready for Christmas  He and I were joking earlier that Christmas day was the only day of the year we could run this without crushing the server, but having had a peek at what's under the tree, I'm starting to think the server elves will be working[...]

    People who had backed the Kickstarter-funded Womanthology volume received a rather splendid Christmas present this morning, ahead of the finished printed volume A digital offering, over 40 pages long, of Christmas-related female-formed comics, illustrations and prose, only for those who funded the project Here's a few examples… By Devin Grayson and Sally Stone Thompson By Bridgit[...]

Orbital Comics in London is currently showing off a display of pop culture cardboard cut-out constructs by one Ryan Hall. Including a Doctor Who Nativity

The new Christmas Radio Times, the BBC Worldwide TV and radio listings magazine, naturally has a feature on Christmas Day's Doctor Who, The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe And how Steven Moffat found it hard to get back into the Christmas spirit when writing it in the middle of hot, sunny August He writes; "Help[...]

Comic book readers have become used to having to wait an extra day or two over Christmas and the new year for their comics But the day early shipping continues to reap rewards in that regards. As Christmas Day and New Year's Day both land on a Sunday, US and Canadian comic shops will reveive their[...]

For Christmas Day Neil Gaiman's Sky At Night sung, composed and performed by Dave McKean. For Christmas Day Neil Gaiman's Sky At Night sung, composed and performed by Dave McKean. For Christmas Day Neil Gaiman's Sky At Night sung, composed and performed by Dave McKean. For Christmas Day Neil Gaiman's Sky At Night sung, composed[...]

DemiWatch: Who will Demi Lovato play in The Avengers? LocalWatch: Iowan artist Gary Kelly gets local press for drawing a graphic novel written by J.Patrick Lewis "And The Soldiers Sang" about the Christmas truce during World War I when the German and British armies left their trenches and played football in No Man's Land. IndiaWatch: The Indian[...]

Here's a few of the many industry Christmas cards send by publishers, retailers and creators alike, that may need further exploration or interpretation. Don't turn your back on Santa, or he'll empty his sack That'll wipe the smile off your face. White kids get cowboy hats, black kids get basketballs. Green Lanterns are real cheapskates[...]

A quick look at British telly output on the runup to Christmas Day… 1 Little Crackers 19th December, through the week, Sky One, 9pm. Victoria Wood and Chris O'Dowd create the first two of twelve fifteen minute films over the Christmas season about themselves as children Wood directs a story of a Lancashire girl whose[...]

Well he does have the beard for it. According to the Northampton Chronicle, Alan Moore is using the profits from his Dodgem Logic magazine to donate three hundred Christmas hampers to Northampton residents living in sheltered housing located in Spring Boroughs, the area he grew up in, and to the Northampton homeless drop-in centre through[...]

Christmas is coming, the fanboy's getting fat Please put an omnibus in the old man's hat. If you haven't got an omnibus an absolute will do. If you haven't got an absolute, then get out of my mother's basement you freeloader! That's right, 'tis the season to be jolly well giving the postman a hernia[...]

My wife once bought me Dave McKean's Cages from Gosh Comics. I was so so happy, I hadn't a clue, I didn't know she even knew I wanted it. She wasn't my