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Top Cow Covers It – Part One
Got an email from Matt Hawkins of Top Cow offering us the covers for what looks to be the next two months of books at least. Well, I love good art so I
Some Things Are Broken, And Just Cannot Be Fixed…
Shane W Smith writes for Bleeding Cool: In my brief career in comics, I've done work for others for free, for exposure I've had a great deal of work published that I never saw a cent for (somewhere in the vicinity of 100 pages so far – that's writing and artwork) While I'm not bitter about[...]
Spread The Love, Man – Just Another Sheep
"Wrinkled is like Fargo meets Cocoon", said Heagerty. The comic features art by Will Tempest known for his work on Zero from Image Comics. Simply back the project at any amount, then message Heagerty "Bleeding Cool and your email address" the PDF will be sent out this coming Tuesday April 15th.   Title: Just Another Sheep Creators: Story- Mat[...]
Amazing Spider-Man And Original Sin Dominate Advance Reorders
And there's a big boost of the dollar issues of Image Firsts ahead of Free Comic Book Day. TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs (RETAIL) Description SRP Supplier AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 ANMN $5.99 MAR ORIGINAL SIN #1 (OF 8) $4.99 MAR AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 YOUNG VAR ANMN $5.99 MAR ORIGINAL SIN #0 $4.99 MAR AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 BLANK VAR ANMN $5.99 MAR AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 CAMPBELL CONNECTING B VAR ANMN $5.99 MAR AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 MHAN VAR ANMN $5.99 MAR SOUTHERN[...]
Free Comic Book Day Preview: Boom And Archaia –  Adventure Time To Mouse Guard
Surely we're counting down the days now until Free Comic Book Day? In that case, we have twenty-one days to go… and so many Free Comic Book Day comics to preview. So this is what the Boom/Archaia collective are up to First, for the kiddies… we have the  kaboom Summer Blast 2014 An explosion of All-Ages awesomeness[...]
Saturday Runaround – The Longest Comic And The Naughtiest Dog
Mark Evanier writes, Another worthy contender for the title of Oldest Comic Book Artist was Fred Kida, who drew the Airboy comic books beginning around 1940 and who worked in comics (books and strips) until around 1987 Mr Kida was born December 12, 1920, making him only a few months younger than Ken Bald Sad to say, Mr[...]
So Amazon Bought ComiXology. What Now?
And did so without paragraph breaks. This is not what we, as an industry, were promised.  This is exactly what the bigger fear has always been.  This is the stripping of brick and mortar comic book stores customers, slowly plotted for a long time.  This was the building of a customer list of people Interested in[...]
The Return Of Supreme To Image Comics
They love a teaser, do Image Comics… Supreme is back In some form For July…   They love a teaser, do Image Comics… Supreme is back In some form For July…   They love a teaser, do Image Comics… Supreme is back In some form For July…   They love a teaser, do Image Comics… Supreme is back[...]
Joe Eisma Gets FOC'd In The Woods
This Monday is the Final Order Cut-Off deadline for The Woods #1 from James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas. In order to goose orders (some folk can't see
Desperately Seeking Comics At London Book Fair 2014
They had a big comics-based booth and had all sorts of things to attract the eye. Okay, yes, there were My Little Pony packs at Alice-height. Thankfully, the Joker Mask set for Death Of The Joker was a little higher.     Self Made Hero are part of a new breed of British graphic novel publisher, emerging over the last[...]
The Wonder Woman We Almost Got In The New 52
And they learnt something new about how it all went down. Chiang had no idea until March during a dinner with Dan Didio at WonderCon that Wonder Woman would be part of the massive DC Comics "New 52" reboot That reboot changed the team's plans for Wonder Woman. "Originally we wanted to embrace all of Wonder Woman's[...]
Thunderbolts, After Original Sin
 I am told to expect the nature of the Thunderbolts comic to undergo some very big changes after Original Sin. The book began as the story of
ComiXology – It's All About Sharing?
  Business Insider's Gus Lubin has talked about  buying comics on ComiXology. He says, I used to go to Forbidden Planet in Manhattan every Wednesday to browse new comics. But since my recent discovery of Comics by comiXology, the company that Amazon just bought for an undisclosed amount, I can't see myself regularly going to a comic store ever again. He also admits[...]