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Gendercrunching February 2014 – Plus Eisner Nomination Tallies
We also take a look at the Eisner nominations, past and present, and their growing trend of female representation. DC COMICS DC saw significant growth in most of their categories this month, which led to a solid gain from their January total In February 2014, DC Comics released 75 new books featuring 623 credited creators, 537 men[...]
Top Cow 2013 Talent Hunt Winners
Top Cow has graciously allowed us to announce the winners of their 2013 talent hunt. The winners will work on upcoming issues of the Top Cow series
Oddy Normal By Otis Frampton Comes To Image Comics This Autumn
Image Comics is publishing cartoonist Otis Frampton's all-ages ongoing fantasy series, Oddly Normal in the autumn But see if yoiu can get a peek at Otis' table in Artists Alley, table G15… Meet Oddly Normal, a ten-year-old girl with pointed ears and green hair—a half-witch who will be the first to tell you that having a mother[...]
Is This The Biggest Ever Composite Cover In Comics? Exclusive To Six Stores For Valiant's Armor Hunters
Here's what you have to buy to get it all. ARMOR HUNTERS #1-4, UNITY #8-11, X-O MANOWAR #26-29, ARMOR HUNTERS: BLOODSHOT #1-3, ARMOR HUNTERS: HARBINGER #1-3. And here is where you have to buy them from… DCBS www.DCBService.com customer.service@dcbservice.com 10202-C Coldwater Road Fort Wayne, IN 46825 Graham Crackers Comics GrahamCrackers.com At all 9 locations in Illinois! Laughing Ogre www.laughingogrecomics.com/wordpress/ At all 3 three location in Virginia and Ohio! (703) 437-9530 (703) 250-6479 (614) A-MR-OGRE M[...]
The Guardian Combines Literary Authors With Comic Artists, From Audrey Niffenegger To Dave Gibbons
This Saturday, the Guardian newspaper is to fill its Weekend magazine with comics New comics Though written by authors more associated with literary work and drawn by artists known for their comics Creating pairings such as these… Gillian Flynn and Dave Gibbons AM Homes and Frazer Irving Margaret Atwood and Christian Ward Michel Faber and Roger Langridge Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell Dave[...]
Free Comic Book Day Preview: Scratch 9 And Spongebob Squarepants
Another couple of previews of comics coming up for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday May the third And more for the kiddies… Scratch 9 Publisher: HERMES PRESS (W) Rob M Worley (A) Jason T Kruse (CA) Armand Villavert Scratch9, the worlds greatest superhero cat returns for free comic book day with a special reprint issue #1 of the title[...]
Thursday Runaround – The Lenny Henry Spider-Man
The New York Times reports, The cartoonist Scott McCloud, who wrote about what makes comic books tick in "Understanding Comics" and speculated about their future in "Reinventing Comics," is returning to fiction for his next project, "The Sculptor," a graphic novel to be published in February 2015 by First Second. SUPERHEROES TAKE TO THE AIR College students Johnny[...]
Free Comic Book Day Preview: The Entropy Of Epic Scam Crosswords
Three more previews of comics coming up for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday May the third… smaller, indie, action! Scam Crosswords #0 Publisher: COMIXTRIBE (W) Jason Ciaramella (A/CA) Joe Mulvey Spinning out of the pages of the super-powered con-man series, SCAM, Eisner-nominated writer Jason Ciaramella (The Cape) and "the most dangerous man in comics" Joe Mulvey bring you an explosive[...]
Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show – From Batman Eternal To The 7th Sword
Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: This week is exciting! The art of Elektra had us drooling! The awkward familiarity of Eltingville Club had us in stitches! And getting to know The Watcher made[...]
Nei Ruffino Shares Her Latest Covers – Pencils And Colors
Nei Ruffino has built her name as a colorist and is quite a high demand having worked from DC Comics to Zenescope and gotten to be a regular at coloring J Scott Campbell but over the last few years she been doing more and more cover work from her own pencils Now she's gotten work[...]
Guardians Of The Galaxy – The Big Return (SPOILERS)
They hung around the Marvel Universe, regularly guarding the galaxy. It was Jim Valentino's version, from the nineties Marvel comic that introduced the characters to a new readership as well as raising this alternative indie comic creator's profile that saw him picked to join the Image Comics founders. Basically, he included some women And it transformed the[...]
Retconning Progress:  Requiem For The Superior Spider-Man
By Hashim Hathaway As an avid reader of comics, I'll admit I've been slacking. I haven't had a pull list at a comic store since 2001, and as far as I can remember, the last time I purchased an individual issue of a comic had to have been somewhere around 2009 Now that isn't to say that[...]
Doodle Jump Turns Focus To Comic Retailers
Comic retailers are about to hope that's true. Lima Sky, the company behind the game has teamed with Dynamite Entertainment to bring the addictive game to comics and in doing so, they are hoping to bring their million of players to comics shops. They have over 3 Million Likes on Facebook: Doodle Jump – 3,430,650 likes ·[...]
It's A Marvel Mego Revival From Diamond Select and EMCE Toys
Wolverine, for instance, could include his yellow and blue costume, a set of civilian clothes, and a brown and tan suit with an unmasked head for those who'd like to appear as did in the classic Chris Claremont/Frank Miller '80s miniseries. Stay tuned to this site for further developments in Marvel Mego madness! Christopher Smith teaches composition[...]
Castle Point Anime Convention Con-umentary: A Cosplay Compilation Video
By Ian Mageto Comics and Cosplay, hosted by Bleeding Cool's Senior Cosplay Correspondent and Bleeding Cosplay columnist Ian Mageto, visits  Castle Point Anime Convention in Hoboken NJ Much cosplay ensues, set to a groovy soundtrack. You can follow Comics and Cosplay here: TWITTER › https://twitter.com/ComixNCosplay TUMBLR › http://satmorncosplay.tumblr.com/ FACEBOOK › https://www.facebook.com/satmorningco… INSTAGRAM › http://instagram.com/satmorncosplay DEVIANTART › http://satmorncosplay.deviantart.com/ And subscribe to their channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c… Also[...]
World War Z's Max Brooks Brings Extinction Parade To TV With Legendary Entertainment
In theme, Extinction Parade compares well with TV shows like The Walking Dead in its vision of internecine conflicts among resistant forces during a zombie apocalypse, and also to shows like Hannibal for its horror elements depicting humanity as prey. Legendary Entertainment develops films (Legendary Pictures), television and digital properties (Legendary Television and Digital Media) and[...]
When Miracleman Was Meant To Be In Original Sin
This was a scene from a preview copy of Original Sin #0 by Mark Waid and Jim Cheung that was passed to Bleeding Cool. And this is that scene, coloured, appearing in Original Sin #0 and published today by Marvel Comics (UPDATED with a better version) Do note that the appearance of Miracleman, top left in the original, as[...]
39 Thoughts About 39 Comics – Original Sin, Eltingville, Daredevil, Catwoman, Larfleeze, Justice League United, Red Lanterns, Batman/Superman, Dead Body Road, Sheltered, Uber, Crossed, Gravel, Lazarus, Five Ghosts, Fused, Skullkickers, 24, Eternal Warrior, Harbinger, Star Trek, Regular Show, Turtles, City, GI Joe, Robotech/Voltron, Godzilla, Ash, Moriarty, Game Of Thrones, Lady Rawhide, Danger Girl, Rogue Trooper, Transformers, Shotgun Wedding, Bravest Warriors, Midas Flesh, Evil Empire And Peanuts
Welcome to another look through the week's comics, courtesy of friends and relatives But how are you feeling today? Tense, nervous headache? If this were any other drama, you might expect this as foreshadowing of a tumour, cancer, pregnancy, something In a comic book like Justice United #0? You're about to become a superhero… I do enjoy[...]
Marvel's July 2014 Solicitations – With 33 Classified Listings (UPDATE)
UPDATE: Looks like Bleeding Cool's report below may have urged Marvel to release their solicits officially a little early… Marvel's original comics and graphic novels for July 2014… including a new Original Sin spinoff mini-series Original Sin #5.1-#5.5 (the Thor/Loki crossover perhaps?) , lots of stuff Bleeding Cool talked before and lots and lots of Classified[...]