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The French Free Comic Book… Two Days
Firstly, they do it two weeks later, because they are lazy. Then they take two whole days to do it in. And they only give away eight free comics. See, it's that lack of commitment that ensures France only has a massive comics industry. Hmmm. More here, when they get round to adding it. UPDATE: I have been informed that a[...]
Eternity Can Wait – DC Weeklies Will Run Until March 2015
Dan DiDio, co-Publisher of DC Comics, has been laying out the schedules for the three announced weekly titles so far, on Facebook Unlike 52 and Countdown before them, they will not last a year Though it seems that Batman Eternal will be continuing… sometime. Batman Eternal started this April and runs to next March after which[...]
Free Comic Book Day Preview: Ducks, Smurfs And Buck Rogers
Another few previews of comics coming up for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday May the third And here are some classic kids comics – even if some of them have never been published in the US before. Don Rosa's Uncle Scrooge And Donald Duck Publisher: FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS (W/A/CA) Don Rosa In "A Matter of Some Gravity" by fan-favorite Don[...]
IDW Announces John Buscema Silver Surfer, Walt Simonson Manhunter Artist's Editions, Stephen King & Simonson Lawnmower Man Portfolio
Joshua Stone reports from Wondercon: IDW has announced their third Artist's Edition featuring art by Walt Simonson, Manhunter and Other Stories, to be released in September. It will include the Manhunter story from the classic 1973 Detective Comics backups, along with Simonson Batman, Dr Fate, Metal Men, and Captain Fear material IDW Special Projects Editior Scott Dunbier shared that IDW[...]
The Journey Of Magika Begins On Free Comic Book Day
Here's another preview from the four-bundle of free comics for Free Comic Book Day from Red Giant Entertainment This time Magika #0 from Giant-Size Adventure #0… Spinning off from the upcoming fully-animated feature film JOURNEY TO MAGIKA, GIANT-SIZE ADVENTURE's MAGIKA is an all-ages adventure series written by NY Times-bestselling author David Lawrence (MERCY THOMPSON) and Kevin Juaire[...]
The Pot Luck Of Dynamic Forces' $88.88 Spider-Man Daily Special
They should be lucky I didn't pull on a V For Vendetta mask, face the camera and call for an overthrow of the state. But I did feel guilty for selling what was basically overpriced marked up comics to people who probably couldn't afford them I felt less guilty when I saw people flip them for[...]
Wondercon: Kelly Sue DeConnick's Bitch Planet – Out In November, Folks! (UPDATE)
Straight from the mouth of Kelly Sue DeConnick, at her panel at Wondercon (and emailed me straight from the fingers of Bleeding Cool Editor-In-Chief Hannah Means-Shannon who will no doubt provide a stunning panel report at the earliest available opportunity…) Bitch Planet, the sexploitation comic announced at Image Expo, from Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De[...]
Checking In With The Dark Tales Of The Brothers Harrow
 We wrote with the dream of combining two elements we all love: film and comics  We set out to blend the narrative structure of comics with cinematic visuals  Can you have story of Sandman and Blade Runner visuals at the same time? Yes Of course   So we collaborated with two great concept artists Alex Charleux[...]
How Do You Know When You've Made It As A Comic Book Artist? This Is How.
#wow #comics pic.twitter.com/06HhmNc85E — Joel Gomez (@J0ELG) April 19, 2014 And that's how you know. Joel Gomez is a comic book artist with a history at Wildstorm, a big DeviantArt gallery and lots of followers and commission hunters. And today, at Wondercon, he met one of them. Met a guy @WonderCon who had my Gotham City backgrounds from a[...]
Wondercon So Far In Photos
It's still up in the air about whether this year's Wondercon attendance or events are bigger than last year's, and last year's show was a very strong one.
Swag! Wondercon Edition
It wasn't a bad first day when it comes to swag. There was even some free stuff at the con, including DC being uncharacteristically generous, Dark Horse