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We showed you how British price comparison site Compare The Market – who have used as their mascot for years, Easter European meerkats of fake rival site Compare The Meerket – have been creating Batman V Superman promotional activity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeKO2OYtxOw Well, they have now taken it further, teaming with Neal Adams and Tony Bedard to create a two[...]

We also take a look at another record setter, this year's Eisner nominations. DC COMICS After a higher start to the year, DC seems to be settling into the low teens, an area noticeably below their past bests In March 2016, DC Comics put out 74 new comic books featuring 667 credited creators, 578 men and 89[...]

In November, Bleeding Cool ran a story about DC Comics opposition for a cerebral palsy charity trademark for the word "Supermanny", based on the life of her three year old son. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDnlS4_0ScMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Supermanny's journey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDnlS4_0ScM) The mother of "Supermanny" and the founder of the charity was advised to change the[...]

Today's Action Comics continues Superman dealing with, and preparing for, his upcoming death And how others are reacting to it. But we also get to see Supergirl's relationship to the DEO – a body that in DC Rebirth she will be an agent for Today we get the details of why.She is reliant on the DEO[...]

IDW announced a new Powerpuff Girls comic book series at ECCC, written by two of the new show's staff writers Jake Goldman and Haley Mancini, also the voice of Princess Morebucks. The comic will be drawn by Derek Charm of the CW/IDW's Super Secret Crisis War". Art and interviews over at CBR… [...]

IDW Publishing will launch a second ongoing comic series based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in August. Paul Allor and Damian Couceiro create a dangerous new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles foe — the U.S government While in a back up strip, TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman teams with Bill Sienkiewicz[...]

  Kaare Andrews' new comic book, Renato Jones: The One %  being published by image has a new demographic for comics in mind, is launching an ad campaign aimed at the super-rich. The man who killed Mary Jane Watson with radioactive sperm in Spider-Man: Reign (true story) and redesigned the Hulk to look like Osama Bin Laden in[...]

Last year, Bleeding Cool ran the story that 2000AD was being dropped from Free Comic Book Day 2016 over issues including the magazine size of the comic book. That decision was reversed, after considerable lobbying from retailers and readers, but changes were made to ensure the decision Including the comic being shrunk down to traditional US[...]

This month's Loot Crate contained an exclusively commissioned Harley Quinn comic book by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner that rewrote Mad Love and had Harley sexually assault both Batman and the Green Lantern. What will next month's Loot Crate bring? Items from Labyrinth, Harry Potter, Uncharted 4 and Vikings There's a Vikings comic of course launching from Titan[...]

Even if you know when or how you're going to end it, you never know exactly what's going to happen on your way there, and you can end up having a lot of fun. My comic strip, The Center of Somewhere, ended it's 3 ½ year run at the end of January The book I'm Kickstarting,[...]

Tumblrs, twitters, FTP lists, on one occasion typing the word "Batman" into the DC Comics search engine and finding a roster of unannounced projects. Publishers are a lot more discrete these days, but even so, these things still find their way out. Such as this visual, with the filename "sispurrierprojectnew.jpg" So, that's London writer Si Spurrier.  And signed[...]

But, for Bleeding Cool owner Avatar Press, they are starting something new. Cinema Purgatorio, a horror anthology comic book including their work and the work of their friends, including Max Brooks, Kieron Gillen, Christos Gage and more. And, yes, it's being funded on Kickstarter. The lead strip of Cinema Purgatorio is by Moore and O'Neill This ongoing monthly series will feature[...]

Right, from here on in, this is a major, last page reveal for tomorrow's Mercury Heat #7, the sci-fi police procedural comic book set on Mercury, by Kieron Gillen and Nahuel Lopez. If you were planning to buy the comic anyway, stop now and don't spoil yourself. If you were planning to read it in the trade…[...]

Sabretooth Dan is a new comic being published by Scout Comics in April, and created by C.R Mountain. I understand that C.R Mountain is a pseudonym for a professional animator who has worked for The National Lampoon, Keeshan Animation, Klasky-Csupo, The Chiodo Brothers, Saban, Turner and a host of other companies, and who currently lives in Alaska. If you crossed Calvin[...]

Which appeared in a number of forms. And it's a version of that one that recently popped up on eBay.   Supposedly signed by Bill Watterson, though all eyes on the strip don't see his penwork in it, and it certainly was never published. The strip is provided with this provenance. This comic strip was purchased off a kind[...]

We also make our semi-annual visit to Image, IDW, and Dark Horse and, SHOCKING SPOILER, they all topped Marvel but only one bested DC. DC COMICS DC's been all over the map for the past few months, but have been consistently above their usual average even at the lows of their recent ups and downs[...]

The San Diego Comic Art Gallery attached to comic book publisher IDW is launching their  Comic Book Art of Star Wars exhibition tomorrow, running until the end of January. The exhibit will feature 30 pieces of rare Star Wars original art from the very first comic book series released by Marvel Comics in 1977, mostly from the first[...]

Bleeding Cool welcomes back We Be Geeks, hosting a variety of guests and covering a wide range of geek topics. With no guest, and no Julz this week, the

Playboy's December issue hits newsstands this Friday, and include an comic book preview of Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, The Hateful Eight. Take a look at the full thing here…. Playboy's December issue hits newsstands this Friday, and include an comic book preview of Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, The Hateful Eight. Take a look at the full thing here…. [...]

Avatar Press has three comics hitting shelves tomorrow – Crossed: Badlands #89, Crossed +100 #11 and War Stories #14. Crossed: Badlands #89 All of his life Jack took the safe route – he went to the safe school, got the safe career, and developed the safe existence.  He never expected to hear from his delinquent younger brother[...]

That, I think, is a win for Marvel. In September 2015, Marvel took a 32.67% share of revenue and a 38.12% share of number of comics sold But in October, they took a 43.65% share of revenue and a staggering 48.26% share of number of comics sold. Basically, one in every two comics sold to comic stores in October was a Marvel[...]

The DC Comics Vertigo adaptation of the Millennium trilogy didn't end up making much of a wave after its initial publication in 2012 and petered out into 2015. The French adaptation from Dupuis however seemed to fare a lot better So much so that it is spinning off into new material starring Mikael Blomkvist and Salander. While there[...]

At the beginning of last month, Bleeding Cool asked if Ta-Nehisi Coates was writing a comic book for Marvel. @tanehisicoates Heard that you had an interest in writing something for Marvel Let's talk! tbrevoort@marvel.com — Tom Brevoort (@TomBrevoort) May 21, 2015   And he is Marvel PR have told the New York Times that senior editor for The Atlantic, where his[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! All-New All-Different[...]

But now we know more. Marvel has given Yahoo News the PR that states Kate Leth and artist Brittney Williams will create the Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat comic, with Leth telling them. 1 "She's a superhero martial-arts wiz that can sense mystical energy! She learned how to fight on the moon, so you knowshe's good." 2[...]

Dropping the hyphen, from Image Comics and scheduled for January Available for order here in the US and here in the UK. And here's the solicit text… In the future, you become famous In the future, you sell your product In the future, when there's nowhere else to go, you sign up for Antistar[...]

Now that the series is rolling out from Image Comics, it seems like my impression of the series changes with each issue In the opening issue, I was blown away by the art style and the eerie qualities Alexander brought to the narrative, and as the story progressed, his choice of moments to build tension[...]

And that millions of new readers are now seeking out other horrific comics by the cartoonist Oh Seong-dae, just one of a number of South Korean creators gaining new prominence in China. Beauty Water features "a young overweight woman who learns about a new liquid product that can allow people to change their looks just as well as[...]

Get your digs in before your enemies can… As part of a series of announcements that every publisher will be making before the release of the November-shipping Diamond Previews in two weeks time, Marvel has announced Secret Wars Too a one-shot Secret Wars parody to ComicBook.com. By the likes of Jonathan Hickman, Chip Zdarsky, Sergio Aragones, Ryan Browne, Al Ewing, Rob[...]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. The comic strip format is something I never quiiiiite got the hang of; while it's frequently formulaic, and I respond well to[...]