Los Angeles' Meltdown Comics became the first bricks'n'mortar comic shop to officially accept the digital currency Bitcoin as a method of payment.
The lucky purchaser was Bleeding Cool photographer (and so much more) Pinguino Kolb She writes,
I used Blockchain on my iphone to buy Daniel Clowes's Death Ray book Francisco rang up the order on a[...]
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Matt Fraction has been filling us in on the current state of the Hawkeye comic. BTW: HAWKEYE 15 went to press on FRIDAY, so figure it's 3-4 wednesdays
As well as what happened when he tried to meet with the Comics Code.
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And, V For Vendetta style, Anonymous addresses the nation.
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Here are the boys at play... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlxWXjFL3mE Could it be this? Married with this? Yes, yes, I think it is. But we find out
The Stedman Gallery at Rutgers-Camden in Philadelphia is running a large-scale exhibit of original artwork, related talks, and multi-media that features work from the early days of Underground Comix up to current comics created by those who present "comix versions of their life stories through a marriage of drawings and text" The exhibition is entitled,[...]
And he's got a fantastic look.
MW: What do you find yourself drawing from more when you write the character–the pulps? The radio incarnation? Kaluta and Chaykin? Alec Baldwin? The 1960's Archie comics?
CR: You joke, but I've got an issue of the Archie version on my shelf! But I think my approach is equal parts radio[...]
A number of titles such as X-Factor and Captain Marvel, previously $2.99 comics, have relaunched at $3.99 So it was a nice surprise for X-Men Legacy, renamed Nightcrawler, to return at a $2.99 price point.
Which lasted all of a week.
Now retailers have been told that it will actually be $3.99.
Original Sin #0, originally solicited at[...]
Today, the Indiegogo campaign opens for a proposed internet site called Bideas (think Bid-Ideas), an auction site where "big companies bid on big ideas" and the project describes itself as an "eBay for ideas". Though the site hopes to serve many different types of "creatives", founders of the project feel that the site will have[...]
At its Final Order Cut Off Date, Dynamite had received 35,281 orders from comic shops for their launch of Turok The Dinosaur Hunter #1, out this week. The
Firstly, there are Tube strikes this week and next, which may well affect your New Comics Day… transport will be affected from 9.30pm Tuesday until Friday morning And the same again next week Check details here.
Ongoing
Battle Of The Eyes exhibition at Orbital Comics, featuring the work of Savage Pencil, Chris Long and Andy Dog running[...]
Marat Mychaels is working on a new issue of his comic, Blindside. Working on Blindside #2 pic.twitter.com/QZJJaVJ4 — Marat_Mychaels (@MaratMychaels)
When the porn parody version of Quicksilver looks better than the actual movie version…
So what have you been reading this week? Well, top of the list, that's what happens when Terry Gilliam links to Bleeding Cool on his Facebook page… I also reckon the Geoff Johns story will get some extra play later this week!
Top[...]
I still have it.
The most recent was Garry Leach in Orbital Comics a couple of weeks ago, the new rerelease of Miracleman One moment seems as immediate as the next, all from a personalised scrawl from creator to reader that brands the item in time and space.
I'be been lucky enough to be in the position[...]
Tuesday, February 3rd
The New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, February 4, at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby) The event is free and open to the public.
The presentation will be by Keren Katz discussing and showing work from[...]
Next Frame is a Swedish project in which Brazilian comic creator and favourite of Bleeding Cool, Rafael Grampá and his corporate shill sponsors Absolut
TODD pic.twitter.com/5O5m5vI09D
— Todd McFarlane (@Todd_McFarlane) February 2, 2014
Points for random Kurt Russell appearance, Super Bowl.
— Sean McKeever (@TheSeanMcKeever) February 2, 2014
Did you just see the Super Bowl ad for NOAH? Pre-Order the graphic novel from @DarrenAronofsky + Niko Henrichon now! http://t.co/24kARujolX
— Image Comics (@ImageComics) February 2, 2014
Marvel really sprang for a 2.5-minute Super Bowl ad?[...]
Pretty awesome deal if you ask me.
But instead of me telling you more, let's hear it from Terry himself:
Only in the wonderful world of comics is this possible I'm asking for an otherwise perfectly sane normal person to be the next victim of a serial killer in my comic book series, Rachel Rising[...]
Bill Watterson has won the Angoulême Grand Prix, giving the creator of Calvin & Hobbes membership of the Angoulême Academy and making him president of next year's Angoulême comics festival.
Which, for a comic creator often regarded as a bit of a hermit, makes for an interesting choice for the Academy[...]
Akshay Dhar writes for Bleeding Cool about some of the new comics produced in India recently and gives you a sneak peek and his recommendations on them:
Angry Maushi #2 (Abhijeet Kini – self published)
Story and Art: Abhijeet Kini
When I came across the first Angry Maushi comic nearly a year ago, I did not expect much[...]
Though the factory management point out that they employ hundred of Palestinians on equal pegging with their Israeli counterparts, who would lose their jobs if the company closed it down.
A number of cartoonists from France, the USA, and the rest of the world have written a letter to the organisers of Angoulême, including political comic[...]
or tokes.
And a considerable chunk of comics are bedding in ahead of the big game… or running away screaming.
Don't care what it says of me, but cracks me up that the only reason we watch #SuperBowl is @Elisabethf wants to make the appropriate food.
— Scott Allie (@ScottAllie) February 2, 2014
SUPER BOWL DIARY: Marathon runner said[...]
Bleeding Cool reported on how Geoff Johns had been asked by Diane Nelson to restrict the monthly comics he was writing to two He'd dropped Green Lantern, he dropped Justice League Of America, he's dropped Aquaman and Forever Evil is coming to an end, leaving him with only Justice League as an ongoing So what[...]
Marvel is doing some kind of "Party" launch for Iron Man #23.NOW. Okay, they are not expecting balloons, cake or attempts to have sex in the stationery
From the new Miracleman #2... Thank goodness for modern printing production quality. I wonder how "Superflick" looked when it was originally printed?
The vatican Twitter account shows grafitti featuring Pope Francisco in an iconographic superhero pose, holding a briefcase with the word "Valores"
So Alan Moore is one of the three main nominees for the Grand Prix of Angoulême, alongside Bill Watterson and Katsuhiro Otomo.
Such an honour, the greatest in the comics industry, would see Moore made a member of the Angoulême Academy and President of next year's festival This accompanies the French release of Neonomicon, a major[...]
By Dylan Gonzalez
Beer: Vampire Slayer
Brewery: Clown Shoes Brewery
Clown Shoes Brewery goes two for two with another impressive stout. The Vampire Slayer is a hearty brew but perhaps one of the best I have had.
As with most stouts, the Vampire Slayer is dark, dark brown, very nearly black. But with a name like that, I couldn't[...]
Shaun Paulet writes for Bleeding Cool:
There is nothing quite like the wild roar of a rowdy heaving crowd, or so Shaun Paulet of COMICS2MOVIES thought when he created his latest comic the Xtreme Champion Tournament (XCT).
Based in the future, heroes, villains and beasts or creatures of the past have been cloned and ordered to fight[...]
This is the only thing we got from Archie Comics No description, no solicitation text, just an image I think they're picking up on the teaser image promotion style so many other companies are using now.
So Megaman this spring…
This is the only thing we got from Archie Comics No description, no solicitation text, just[...]
Zombies they are everywhere these days. Books, comics, television, and even movies have Zombies shambling and stumbling around every corner of entertainment, so what makes this project worth supporting? I guarantee this Kickstarter project, The Community, is something you really have never seen before.
The Community captures the greatest part of any zombie outbreak, and then[...]