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By Jeff Spry Years before the epic Star Wars juggernaut engulfed the global box office in the sweet '70s like a ravenous black hole, ambitious artists in all realms were cooking up exotic experiments to capitalize on fans' rabid obsession with science fiction fantasy. One of the most intriguing of these experiments involved the inimitable Neal Adams,[...]

By Ian Mageto In this special end of year edition of Comics and Cosplay, host Ian Mageto, our Bleeding Cosplay columnist here at Bleeding Cool, gives you his top 10 worst comic book costumes for 2013 from Marvel and DC Comics Find out where Deadshot, Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The X-Men rank on[...]

He's always experimenting with how comics are published, and since the entire series will be done well in advance, it makes sense There are so many great comics being published these days that you need to do whatever you can to stay on people's radars, and a weekly release seems like a smart approach to[...]

This is Philip Bond's Christmas card, sent from the Bond family,  including Executive Editor of Vertigo Comics, Shelly Bond And this is Philip's only comment on whether he expects to be moving from New Jersey to California in 2015… you could take it either way. This weekend, many comic book professionals were gossiping about what they'd[...]

I've just done my Christmas cartoon for Guido, I've bought my cheese from Neal's Yard, booked my meat with the butcher at Kingston market, doing some last minute shopping tomorrow, first at the comic store (it's New Comics Day tomorrow folks!) with a visit to the hospital for some physiotherapy, and then bedding in My[...]

Edwin Rosell was best known in the comics industry as an inker, working for Wildstorm on comics such as Gen 13 and Alan Moore's run on Voodoo (above) But he has a longer and more diverse career as a visual developer, working as a visual designer. Animator and designer Jeff Merghart posted earlier this month, I'd just[...]

Avengers World #1 is expected to be a somewhat political comic book, following the events of Infinity and the Avengers titles in creating an Avengers for

Rob Liefeld likes his comic books. And he's always working on one thing or another, some projects get twisted around in the telling. A Wolverine issue

Well now isn't that sweet, January's Avengers #25 steals a trick from All-New X-Men and brings the original Avengers from the sixties to the present, a

Recognising comic book work published in French, they are voted on by the French/Belgian comics community, some organised, some not, but representing a specific taste. This year, however, that may all change The selection represents international work, as long as it is published in French But this year rather than restrict the voting population to French[...]

 They gave DC Comics more retail space than your LCS  Imagine a place where you could buy Bruce Timm animation cells, Green Lantern PJs, and a Joker lunchbox all under the same roof  Those were the days, my friends  I treasure the memories, but I mourn the absence. Well friends, happy days are here again[...]

Ales Kot had a rather reduced run on Suicide Squad, just four issues to relaunch the book before he was suddenly surplus to requirements. But he prefers

This week's comics were actually delivered to comic stores last week, and held to be put out on shelves on Christmas Eve, with stores embargoed up to the eyes. Unless of course you are Barnes And Noble A reader writes I was in the TriBeCa Barnes & Noble in NYC yesterday and saw Justice League #26 on[...]

But now, according to My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way, the Doom Patrol-esque Umbrella Academy is coming back next year… So I got a really nice email from Gabriel Ba the other day, he's an amazing comic artist who was the artist on Umbrella Academy.. — Gerard Way (@gerardway) December 21, 2013   He was checking in to see how[...]

By Alasdair Stuart Thought Bubble this year was as much about time travel as it was about comics On almost every table you saw an indie or small press creator or company, and on almost every table, the standard of work was staggering There's incredible energy and love for the medium out there and if even[...]

Locke & Key saw its last issue release this week and many are singing its praises and mourning the close of an instant classic. But though Locke &

And yes, it is probably everything you are expecting it to be. Oh and here's the trailer for the movie for comparison. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR-ouRYzlm8[/youtube] I understand this is the beginning of a line of comics from The Asylum, including one for the long awaited Sharknado 2 due to debut at San Diego Comic Con.   [...]

UPDATE: It's a Christmas story of good cheer, the missing artwork has been located and reunited with its owner! Mulled wine and figgy puddling all round!

This isn't exactly business as usual… Looking for a great book to read? Check out BUZZKILL #5 from @Doncates and @DarkHorseComics ! We'll even thrown in a money back guarentee! — ValiantComics (@ValiantComics) December 21, 2013 One company liking another company's comic so much that they offer a money back guarantee Is this totally from the goodness of[...]

It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. The first proper issue of the new Harley Quinn almost tipped All New X-Men to the top this week, though from some reports, that[...]

PR manager Sara Westrop, of Markosia Comics, explains further: Our goal is to raise $10,000 with our Haiyan Benefit Anthology, via our Indiegogo campaign All profit, after printing and shipping costs, will be donated to the Philippines Red Cross This currently equates to just over two-thirds of our $10,000 target being donated to the Red Cross'[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Galactica IPA Brewery: Clown Shoes Brewery I continue with the Clown Shoes beers on Booze Geek this week.  As a follow-up to Supa

At Bleeding Cool, we love typos. We embrace them, we worship them, we cherish them. So we are especially pleased when publishers like Marvel join in the

You might have seen the viral video of a finger painted photorealistic portrait of Morgan Freeman (12 million views in a few days). The artist’s name is

Courtesy of J Antonio Fraga, we can see that Titan Comics have acquired the English-language publishing rights to three graphic novel series originally published by Dargaud-Lombard. With a few familiar names too. World War X by Peter Snejbjerg and Jerry Frissen Re-Mind by Andrea Mutti and Alcante  And Under by Stefano Raffaele and Christophe Bec [...]

By Tommy Zimmer Legacy Comics of Windsor, Ontario in Canada has not changed from its original roots. As Tony Gray, co-owner and illustrator for both Legacy and now GlassMonkey Studios, said, they started receiving promotional and educational opportunities for pieces for different companies and the local college that produced current Detective Comics artist Jason Fabok. They were licensing[...]

And I wanted to start at the beginning, with a much younger version of Turok than you generally see in past comics. BC: You've got a Native American hero, dinosaurs and a whole new world to play with so what do you do with them? What are the driving themes and direction for the new series? GP:[...]

Timothy Carson writes: The unthinkable has happened – after nearly a month of worldwide domination, The Walking Dead has been dethroned. According to

  This is some of the missing artwork by Denys Cowan that was heading to the Milestones: African Americans in Comics, Pop Culture & Beyond exhibition at Geppi's Entertainment Museum in Baltimore by UPS. Only one page made it through The rest, either stolen or lost You can guess which Milestone's Michael Davis thinks it is. Here's[...]

I discovered Dan Goldman's Red Light Properties digitally through Monkeybrain Comics on ComiXology, and it was one of those moments where you realize, "This This is the sort of comic I want to read" For genre comics fans, it's a no brainer, but the series is such a mix of unusual elements that there's no[...]