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I analyzed backer rewards, created several, ran them by friends and trusted sources, and edited them down.  I decided that even though this project was a comic book and an album, we would list it under the Comics category of Kickstarter There are about one-tenth the amount of comic projects than music projects on Kickstarter,[...]

Louis Falcetti writes for Bleeding Cool. Okay not so much writes, but screams. Call me crazy, but I don’t remember the first adventure The Avengers went

Isaac Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel Comics, and his wife Laura Perlmutter gave NYU Langone Medical Center, of which they are trustees, a present last month But unimaginative as they are, they gave them cash. Fifty million dollars worth. Wikipedia tells me that the NYU Langone Medical Center comprises the NYU School of Medicine and three hospitals: Tisch[...]

My own passion veers into childhood nostalgia, and any product, even based on current comics or other media, that manages to hit a certain aesthetic sweet spot Sometimes, it evokes the "hand candy" feeling of a toy that was a joy to hold, and pose, as a child Others channel the look of some comic[...]

Puaca writes for Bleeding Cool: A recent article on Bleeding Cool by Joe Mulvey discussed the need of the comics industry to advertise I, too, have been thinking about this issue recently and wondering why it is that comic books aren't more widely promoted While its characters are typically known by young and old alike, the[...]

So, yes, this looks rather good. Conor Stechschulte's debut book The Amateurs is being reprinted by Fantagraphics in May. And more remastered than

So that's where Doctor Frederic Wertham went. The Associated Press reports that South Carolina is to remove $52,000 from the College of Charleston's

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 Blank[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. Jack Kirby had nothing to do with the creation of the Marvel Universe He drew some comics, but that's pretty much all he[...]

JT Krul and Paolo Pantalena's fantasy epic gets a relaunch for Aspen Comics in May, with Jirni Vol 2 #1 But don't worry Jirni fans, there is still lots of swords, sorcery and saucy clothing for the book's lead. Ara is a warrior-princess with the blood of the mystical D'jinn flowing through her Powerful, brave, and[...]

Tim Seeley is writing the Chaos Comics crossover event comic this time from Dynamite, out in May So that's Evil Ernie, Purgatori, Chastity etc all in the same book. Man, Secret Wars has a lot to answer for Covers including the likes of J Scott Campbell and another Michael Turner piece of art taken from the[...]

So, Michael B Jordan has been cast as Johnny Storm, a character usually portrayed in the comic books as a young white blonde fellow. Some of the internet

Okay, it's true I haven't quite forgiven Marvel Comics for cancelling its nineties Ghost Rider series half way through a story arc without warning, leaving solicited issues hanging in the air, only finishing it many years later when I didn't care anymore. Also, some may have issues with Marvel cancelling the last Ghost Rider series as[...]

That's the retailer subscriber variant cover for Doctor Spektor, the Gold Key title from Dynamite launching in May with Mark Waid and Neil Edwards on the

Littlest Pet Shop is toy line originally produced by Kenner and snapped up by Hasbro. It got itself a TV series in 1994. The toy line was  revived by

Now Archie will have all the help he needs Rescuing Riverdale with the help of Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and the rest of the Archie Gang." "Gogii Games has been our partner in extending our beloved Archie Comics characters to new audiences and the PC version of Riverdale Rescue is a perfect extension of the many ways our fans[...]

The artist for the upcoming Captain Marvel comic debuting in March, David Lapiz Lopez, shared a step by step walk-thru with a page from the second issue

This week new comic releases for the week of February 19, 2014 are reviewed, plus a special guest! Books reviewed in this episode are: DC Comics: Justice League #28 Image Comics: Undertow #1 Marvel Comics: Amazing X-Men #4 DC Comics: Wonder Woman #28 Image Comics: Alex + Ada #4 IDW: Godzilla Rulers Of Earth #9 IDW: X-Files Conspiracy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 DC[...]

Before there was 30 Days of Night, Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith... back when IDW Publishing was just a few ex-Wildstorm employees starting up a new

On "It's a Draw with Natalie Kim",  comic artists chat about their life and art and draw pictures suggested by fans who write to the show at:

Howard was a bit of a proto-feminist, he did create some fantastic female asskickers, and that little germ of an idea made it into the comics' version of Sonja intact. Nearly every female in comics that's been around 40 years has some goofy stuff in her history…it isn't new stuff to me, people have said similar[...]

Of late, Marvel has been ruling the roost when it comes to collecting their comic books, with book after book being considered far superior to DC Comics' equivalent binding. But there is a new battle on the horizon it seems, regarding paper quality And especially the recent hardcover collection of Infinity from Marvel. Michael Schwarz told us, In[...]

Thus begins the greatest murder mystery in Marvel Comics history. As Nick Fury leads the heroes of the Marvel Universe in an investigation, other forces are marshaling as well and other questions are arising Why is Black Panther gathering a secret team of his own, including Emma Frost, the Punisher and Dr Strange? Who is the[...]

As you might recall, we did a hefty interview with writer Antony Johnston just ahead of the launch of the new series The Fuse from Image Comics, and Johnston filled us in on the genre-mixing going on in this labor of love from he and artist Justin Greenwood, drawing on cop shows, crime procedurals, and[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running the news that Marvel is planning to consolidate all its digital app into one easy to handle app. Could SXSW in Austin be the place to do it? Expect better planning than the 300 free comics that were suddenly very unavailable…  First, at 1:30pm (CST) on Saturday, March 8th, on the SXSW[...]

You might also want to ask Marvel Comics if they'd like to chip in as well. If you think the look of Rocket Raccoon, walking across the screen in the Guardians Of The Galaxy trailer looks ridiculously wonderful, think how utterly insane it must have looked when he first appeared in 1976 And spare a[...]

Injustice Gods Among Us was the comic book that shouldn't have succeeded the way it did. A spinoff of a computer game it ignited on release, both

I get my comic books every week from Orbital Comics in London So do quite a few other people And thankfully Marvel Comics seems to join in the promotion This ran in Infinity #1. And today this runs in Iron Man Annual. Which is lovely, though I feel that Gosh Comics and Forbidden Planet might want to[...]

Caliber Comics was the publisher that brought Brian Bendis to our attention, published the songs of Alan Moore and gave us the early works of Guy Davis, Michael Allred, Warren Ellis, Vince Locke, Ed Brubaker, Mike Perkins, David Mack, Dean Haspiel, Mike Carey, Jim Calafiore, Georges Jeanty, Patrick Zircher, Phil Hester and many more, through[...]

We knew Jim Starlin was working on a Thanos Annual for Marvel. Though we didn't know it was drawn by his old art partner Ron Lim. They worked together on