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Swipe File: Shia LaBeouf Vs Dan Clowes
This is Justin M Damiano by Dan Clowes. Read the whole thing here. This is a teaser to HowardCantour.com by Shia LaBeouf. http://vimeo.com/44601849 From
Black Mask Launches Godkiller Weekly Comic In March
The Occupy Comics publisher Black Mask are publishing the Godkiller transmedia series of graphic novels by Matt Pizzolo and Anna Wieszczyk as a weekly comic book series, beginning in March Described as a "twisted sci-horror adventure about a boy's search for a new heart to save his dying sister in a post-nuclear wasteland populated by[...]
Aliens Vs Prometheus Vs Predator
Coming in June from Dark Horse Comics, a new comic book series that combined continuity of the Aliens, Prometheus and Predator films… UPDATE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Goon, fit Serenity and Star Wars in there as well Pretty please? Coming in June from Dark Horse Comics, a new comic book series that combined continuity of the Aliens, Prometheus[...]
Will Dennis And Mark Doyle To Leave DC Comics/Vertigo
Will Dennis is Group Editor at DC Comics/Vertigo and Mark Doyle is an Editor there. I understand that both have decided not to move to the West Coast when DC Comics ups sticks from Manhattan to Burbank in April 2015. Recently responsible for publishing the likes of DC Vertigo publishing 100 Bullets, Scalped, DMZ, The Losers, American[...]
Bill Jemas Joins Take Two Interactive, To Start A "Graphic Fiction Imprint"
Photo by Luigi Novi He's back. Bill Jemas writes "Just a quick note to say that I've joined Take-Two Interactive Software to help start a graphic fiction imprint." Like it says in the headline. The once-publisher of Marvel Comics, Bill Jemas, who helped bring the company out of bankruptcy and who spearheaded a number of new directions, some that[...]
Crash Landing – Optioned By Twitter?
— Noel Clarke (@NoelClarke) December 15, 2013 It's well known that Noel Clarke has a love of comics and has been involved in creating several projects over the last few years, including the aborted comic The Troop a few years ago with Lee and the upcoming Girl 1 from Titan Comics He also has a close[...]
Things To Do In New York And Philadelphia This Week If You Like Comics
Monday, December 16th SNL's Taran Killam will be signing The Illegitimates #1 from IDW with Marc Andreyko at Midtown Comics Grand Central located at 459 Lexington Avenue (corner of 45th St.) in New York from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm. Purchase of The Illegitimates #1 is required to attend the event. Monday, December 16th The seventy-first meeting of the[...]
Screw's Al Goldstein Passes? (NOT)
He did however thank BC for noting his importance to comics. Screw was hugely important to a lot of cartoonists and illustrators Goldstein kept a lot of old underground cartoonists and future top illustrators in work, and in pay, in difficult times He published Robert Crumb, Milton Knight, Brad Holland, Danny Hellman, Bob Fingerman, John Holmstrom,[...]
The Dark Tales Of The Brothers Harrow – The Next Step In Graphic Novel Evolution?
New Orleans is now a dangerous post-apocalyptic nightmare and the hero, in search of his missing son, must fight his way through the dystopian Underworld to investigate his son's abduction only to discover that the answer lies in the darkness of his past. Delta and Avalon are really parallels of each other, opposite sides of the[...]
The Man Who Turned Down Detective Comics #27
Enclosed within a brief case you would only see in the movies that contained money instead contained one of the rarest comics in existence It was an original volume 1, Detective Comics #27, the first appearance of Batman, and commanding a seven figure value in mint condition. His customer came in with one intention: to sell[...]
Brian Hibbs Of Comix Experience Buys Comics Outpost, San Francisco
In November, Gary Buechler, owner of the Comics Outpost store in San Francisco, posted the following: At the end of the week, the Buechler posted; The Comic Outpost will live on It has been sold This is a good thing! Later that day, Brian Hibbs of Comix Experience sent this message out: Dear Awesome Comic Outpost customer! I want to introduce[...]
DC Editor Wil Moss Starts At Marvel On Monday?
Well, that's one of the DC Comics editors in New York who won't be making the move westwards in sixteen months. Bleeding Cool understands that Wil Moss, editor on DC titles such as Flash, Green Arrow and Suicide Squad, and with long runs on the Superbooks will instead be working at Marvel Comics' offices on Monday[...]
Monsters, Maidens & Mayhem
Most of us (by that I mean comic book fanatics) have a handful of books by certain writers or artists that we've looked through sooo many damn times that the pages are pretty much falling out. One of the very first comics I couldn't put down was the Gen13 first miniseries Trade-Paperback I've gone through that[...]
The First Winner Of A Unity #GoldenTicket, James Best III
James Best III got one of the five #GoldenTicket comics Here's where the lucky guy told the rest of the board! Best will receive one four-day pass to New York Comic Con 2014, a one-of-a-kind Valiant prize package – a tour of Valiant's New York City offices, dinner with Valiant editorial staff, and a comprehensive collection[...]
When Manko Models Catsuits And Rayguns In A Comic Shop
This is Orbital Comics, in London, official suppliers of weekly comic books to Bleeding Cool, and now transformed into an art studio, with artists, paper, pens, beer, a life model and props. This week, Jason Atomic hosted a life-drawing class featuring Manko, in a catsuit and posing with raygun-style weaponry. It was booked up well in advance, the[...]
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – DC Comics Takes Charge
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. DC Comics take the top three spots without worry this week, with Marvel's top selling title only getting fifth place Could an underprint and[...]
Wolverine And The X-Men Omnibus… And Friends
And there's a nice big content-undetermined Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Ghosts of the Past. And following the massive oversized Wolverine: The Adamantium Collection, we now get a 720 page X-Men: The Adamantium Collection collecting comics by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Chris Claremont, Fabian Nicieza, Jack Kirby, Neal Adams , John Byrne and Brent Anderson A snip[...]
Zeb Wells Off Elektra, Haden Blackman On – What Happened?
Well that was fast. Teased, then announced at New York Comic Con, a new Elektra series was set to debut from Marvel Comics in March Reinventing Frank Miller's character and star of panel and screen, it was one of a number of new solo female character books from Marvel as part of the All New Marvel[...]
Swipe File: Marko Manev And Francesco Francavilla's Silver Surfers
From Marko Manev's series of iconic superhero posters from February this year. And from the March solicitations for Marvel Comics' Silver Surfer, by Dan Slott and Michael Allred, variant cover by Francesco Francavilla. But was actually published originally in 2010! In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree[...]
What Does Having An Editor-in-Chief At Bleeding Cool Mean?
I've also been known to break out my opinions from time to time, particularly about indie comics, the creator-owned movement in the mainstream, and the like. Obviously, I love the medium and have pretty eclectic tastes; usually I'm looking for a certain ring of quality and passion in a given comic that catches my attention and[...]