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Valiant has sent over an advanced preview of their Quantum And Woody #7 by writer James Asmus and artist Ming Doyle. The book hits the shelves on January

Do you think the comics industry is doing enough to reach younger readers? RL: I think it could always do more, but it's been gratifying to see so many great comics for kids appear over the last few years The more the better! If nothing else, it's just smart long-term thinking The existing audience won't live forever[...]

 Timothy Carson writes: Holy Age of Ultron, Batman! According to ComiXology sales last week taken from iOS in-app purchase charts, Age of Ultron dominated

Marvel have two weeks of almost no comics to make up for, remember Which is we they are publishing twenty-five new titles, in one week, including launches for Miracleman, Black Widow, Avengers World, All New X-Factor, Point One, Revolutionary War and All New Invaders… DC gives us Detective Comics #27 and launches Vampire Diaries #1, Image[...]

Marvel Sales VP David Gabriel, he of "a death every quarter" fame, has given an interview to Diamond Comic Distributors' retailer site (thanks to the

Marvel Comics is upping its variant cover stock quite a bit for the ALl New Marvel NOW! relaunches… Here, in reverse order, are a bunch of additional upcoming variant covers from Marvel Avengers Undercover #1 Mark Brooks and John Tyler Christopher Variants, Elektra #1 Paolo Rivera Variant, Guardians Of The Galaxy #13 Dale Keown Variant, New[...]

But don't you fret! There are comic book things! Cameron Stewart, Will Simpson, JMS and Tintin! Saturday 4th January Cameron Stewart is signing at Gosh! Comics tomorrow Creator of the award-winning comic Sin Titulo, and artist on such mind blindingly good titles as Batman and Robin and Sea Guy will be at Gosh! on January the 4th from[...]

Christina Blanch, the organizer of the massively successful free open-access online comics course "Super MOOC": "Gender Through Comic Books", will be running a second course from March 10th to August 19th 2014 and registration is currently open This course will be entitled "Social Issues Through Comic Books" The first MOOC Blanch ran engaged over 7000[...]

Because the Marvel site has two listings, one for Ultimate Comics The Ultimates #35 and Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #32. The numbering would fit the issue numbers, if the Cataclysm mini-series had been included in the regular numbering It could be a placeholder It be just a glitch in the system Could Marvel really be preparing some[...]

Each of these are, of course, teasers about upcoming plot elements for various comics that will be part of the Project Black Sky tie-in Though Project Black Sky will eventually have a specific crossover event (see their Free Comic Book Day offering), there's a more subtle weaving going on too, it seems These books, from[...]

By Alasdair Stuart Edison Rex was one of the first Monkeybrain Comics titles and remains one of the jewels in their crown The story of an extremely reluctant villain-turned-hero, it's mix of Silver Age superheroics, darkness and moments of pure deadpan comedy have won it a loyal audience I talked to writer Chris Roberson and artist[...]

Why these robots have apparent genders, and what it means, and how to deal with it in a Comics-Code-friendly manner… such questions drive writers mad. Old guard Simon Furman, author of a metric ton of TF comics from the eighties to today, spun a new origin for token female Autobot Arcee in 2008's Spotlight: Arcee, in[...]

He was hyping the Image Comics series Fused and once done he told me about the message board on his website. The amazing thing was the number of regular members from that board that went on to do work in the industry I made friends with Ben Templesmith, Nat Jones, Jay Fotos, Nick Stakal, Ben Roman,[...]

We mentioned this upcoming series last year. Crash Landing, described as Flash Gordon meets Dracula by way of Stargate, is written by Tony Lee. Here are

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! We've seen[...]

A couple of weeks ago, Bleeding Cool pointed out how there appeared to be an earlier version of Wolverine published by Marvel in 1973, sent in as a

2013 saw the release of Asterix And The Picts, a 35th volume in the long running Asterix series , and became the best selling comic book of the year.

Called it. A bit. We were down to two guesses. Thanos or Deadpool And it's Deadpool. Getting married. In April. Final piece of the puzzle courtesy of

Hastings, the largest direct market comic book store chain in the world, has announced a new run of exclusive covers, in a deal with Marvel and Kidrobot.

A quick trip down the Amazon often provides for a surprising catch. It looks as if April may be bringing us one of those weekly event books from Marvel,

Photo by Georges Biard Almost two years ago, writer/director/actor/comics creator  Shia LaBeouf contacted Bleeding Cool about the mini-comics he was creating and selling at Meltdown Comics in LA. After the skywriting stunt yesterday, and the continual "repurposed" apologies to Dan Clowes from other people, over the plagiarism of Clowes' work in LaBeouf's most recent short film, I[...]

There is a new television anime adaptation due out this spring based on Hiroyuki's Mangaka-san To Assistant-san To or The Comic Artist And His

This is the new Superman LED sign, to be offered to retailers for advertising and promotional purposes. Though they still have to pony up a three figure

Tomorrow, Marvel Comics will reveal their big Wedding Day comic for April And it seems to have come down to two options. One sees Thanos marrying Death. The other has Deadpool as the groom He seems to have the Deadpool Corps as bridesmaids… Either (or neither) way, we're getting a Dead Wedding… instead of a Red Wedding. Find out[...]

Shia's doing? pic.twitter.com/zBVOSobvuE — Baba Bowie (@AskChaki) January 1, 2014   So Shia LaBeouf's now also apologised to Daniel Clowes for plagarising him via… skywriting? O_o pic.twitter.com/Ld6QTtz1dY — Zainab Akhtar (@comicsandcola) January 1, 2014 So who did he nick this idea from then? Well, he's gone to Twitter again. Mr[...]

Our Senior Cosplay Correspondent at Bleeding Cool, Ian Mageto, gives you his most sage advice, oh cosplayers, on your upcoming year. We who do not learn

When we last met big time nineties comic book artist, Dan Fraga, he was working as director on The Ricky Gervais Show for HBO. Well, now he's back to comics With a webcomic, The Grave, publishing a panel every day for a year. And it starts 63 years ago… When we last met big time nineties comic[...]

The comic strips are displayed in an embedded form directly in the social network or other facility, without the need for a user to go to a separate site to view the comic strip. Which sounds a bit like Bitstrips to be honest… but maybe it's for something else? The inventor is credited as Satish Kumar Sampath,[...]

Here are just a few. 5159 comic books were published in France in 2013,  3882 of them brand new, down 7.3% on 2012, the first drop in seventeen years. Of these, the French/Belgian titles 39.3% of new comics against 42.1% in 2012 Manga overtook these for the first time, 40.7% of products against 39.4% last year. But the[...]

Maybe it's silly to expect some of that darkness not to spill over onto everything. Red Hood And The Outlaws writer James Tynion IV took the opportunity to come out to the comics industry, posting, I'm Bisexual. … My story in short – First came out as Bi in middle school It didn't go well[...]