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[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/podcasts/orbital-podcast147.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to Episode 147 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we take a hit with Stray Bullets: Killers #1, get epic with Sovereign #1, talk idols & inspiration with Captain Marvel #1 & Ms.Marvel #2, see what's at stake with Buffy Season[...]

But Jamie Hewlett made his name as the artist and co-creator on Tank Girl, written by Alan Martin, and appearing in the amazing Deadline magazine that merged music and comics together like never before. And now, decades after he moved on and made Gorillaz with his once-housemate Damon Albarn, he is returning to Tank Girl with[...]

We wrote about this at the weekend. My son and I have a meeting on Sunday with some editors at Boom!, we’re going to pitch them an Adventure Time story

It's a curiosity of Titan Comics, because they print in China, while most retailers are looking at comics coming out in June, when they loot at Titan's listings they see comics coming out in August. Such as Sally Of The Wateland #1 by  Victor Gischler and Tazio Bettin And a 1:10 cover by Tim Seeley, above. This is what you'll[...]

It was an incentive that Image Comics used to build the launches of its titles over the last few years Giving retailers the opportunity to order the first issues, even second or third issues of a new series, and make them completely returnable if they ordered lots, based on that shop's sales of previous series[...]

This one-day con focuses on "anime, cartoons and comics with a heavy emphasis on whimsy, imagination and the creative process." The show runs from 9AM to 6 PM and costs $15 (online or at the door). WonderCon, April 18th – 20th at the Anaheim Convention Center I reported last month that badges were not being sold[...]

Tuesday, April 1st The eightieth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby) in New York This event is free and open to the public.  Ernie Gehr will present and[...]

  These are the new USPS flat rate Spider-Man livery boxes... And this is the TV ad to match.  

Reveal Their Logo And Unveil Their Plans For Batman's 75th  Francis Manapul On All The Flash Ideas He Never Got Round To Amy Acker Cast As Coulson's Cellist In Agents Of SHIELD Racebending Solstice In DC's Teen Titans Happy Birthday, Batman: Today Is The 75th Anniversary Of Detective Comics #27 And Ten You May Prefer Will You Give Joe Phillips A[...]

Thank you! Now on the way to a bar and get drunk! If you see these comics, or are offered them for sale, do get in touch Mico Suayan is one of a number of artists who sell their artwork on the sketch cover comic books created by comic book publishers And he was doing so[...]

What's a publisher to do? Marvel is reprinting Marvelman/Miracleman but some readers are familiar with different prints. Take this scene from Miracleman

As well as the solicited Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos, Amazing-Spider-Man #1 will have additional writers  Christopher Yost, Joe Caramagna and Peter

Announced at ECCC, Dark Horse is publishing Deep Gravity, a new four-part miniseries from Mike Richardson, Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko. Welcome to

As part of their Freedom 2014 season, the BBC has commissioned a new webcomic from Grant Morrison and Rian Hughes, entitled The Key. It can be read in its

"I have tons of my own stories that I've worked on over the years, and I hope to get some of those up and running this year," he says. THE BANNING OF THE 99 The much-publicised Islamic-themed superhero comic book, The 99, written by Kuwaiti psychologist Naif al-Mutawa and praised by Barack Obama, has now been banned in[...]

At ECCC today, Dark Horse Comics announced that Elfquest would be getting a Gallery Edition, the latest format to copy Scott Dunbier's Artists Edition format over at IDW. Effectively this reproduces the look and feel of the original art boards, the comics were originally created on. ElfQuest: The Original Quest Gallery Edition, collects the first five issues of The Original[...]

The DC Comics crossover storyline First Contact ran from Batman/Superman #8-9 and Worlds' Finest #20-21. But Bleeding Cool has been asked to help understand how too read the comic. Well it's easy First you read Batman/Superman #8, then you read World's Finest #20. Then you find a time machine to two/three weeks in the future to April 16th so you can[...]

The Shadow 1941: Hitler's Astrologer sold out immediately when it shipped showing the demand for the classic Denny O'Neil and Mike Kaluta story. So

First in Dying to Tell, which was recently featured in Comixology Submit's top 100 indie comics bundle; next in Near Life; and finally in Lifeblood, which I successfully Kickstarted back in November 2012 thanks to the incredible generosity of my backers. Now, for the first time, I'm collecting volumes 1-3 of Afterlife Inc in one luxury[...]

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! The end[...]

What is it with Hiroshima and Nagasaki having superheroic origins these days? Akira had the suggestion, and Maximortal kicked it off a while ago, but

So I got a package from Valiant Comics the other day. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zqoZo-KWPU[/youtube] Opening up, revealed the three chromium covers from the comic books X-O Manowar, Unity and the launch of Armor Hunters in June, two of which signed by the comics' author Robert Venditti… It was famously the chromium cover of Turok, Dinosaur Hunter #1 in the nineties that[...]

In his panel at ECCC, Matt Fraction was asked whether or not he and his wife Kelly Sue DeConnick had thought about writing a comic book together. Fraction

Dark Horse and Image also have big displays but this year at ECCC, it is undoubtedly the year where Boom! stood out. Everybody knows that Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma are two of the most down to earth and sincerely friendly people in comics right? Yeah, now I'm just bragging because this signed Powers print[...]

Matt Fraction held a question and answer session at ECCC on Friday, in which he discussed his work, his career, and his audience. And slipped out a few

Creator of the long-running, legendary Cerebus, Dave Sim writes about revisiting those early issues, with an all-star cast. I asked Ted Adams during our phone chat a couple of weeks back if IDW would be interested in publishing ULTIMATE CEREBUS: basically the "re-telling" of the first 25 issues by other writers and artists and he was VERY enthusiastic. My[...]

So, yes, a couple of weeks ago I went to the Captain America: The Winter Soldier UK premiere, courtesy of Skype.

The Undone begs the question, "What if you could rewind time? What if you could basically get a do-over whenever you wanted?" Looking back at my career in comics so far, there is one particular moment in my life when I wish I could. I started in the comics industry a way back in 2001 with[...]

1939 was one of comics' greatest years  Arguably, the greatest single calendar year in the history of the American comic book industry as we know it today — or at least the most interesting, particularly when it comes to superhero comics. It's the year that the rest of the industry caught on in earnest to Superman's[...]

Some people have too much free time... and when they have a video camera, we get gems like this - Banecat by Robs Rants http://youtu.be/5ywjpbThDpE I