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Pop Culture Rounding Up With Geof Darrow And His Shaolin Cowboy
[audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/2808/0/PCHPodcastEpisode64.mp3] by Chris Thompson Hot on the heels of my last episode with Riley Rossmo (which you can listen to here) and my recent film podcast (which you can listen to here) I bring the world of comics and film together with the legendary Geof Darrow (Hard Boiled, Big Guy & Rusty The Boy Robot, The Matrix)[...]
Marvel Comics Rumoured To Undergo Massive Digital Transition
It reminded me a little of the ill fated distribution model that was Heroes World, where Marvel bought a print comics distributor, went exclusive with them, and it ended up helping drag the distributor and publisher down, leading to the current monopoly print distribution system with Diamond Comic Distributors And, to be fair, of late[...]
DC Ramps Up Plans For Nightwing, By Trademark, Ahead Of Batman Vs Superman Movie
So DC Comics have registered a trademark on an image I haven't got access to the image in question But it is described as "NIGHTWING on a bat." Which sound like the current DC Comics logo for the comic. Looks like it has been registered for Clothing for men, women and children – namely, shirts, t-shirts, sweatshirts, jogging[...]
Scott Snyder And Sean Gordon Murphy Temper Expectations For The First Black Robin
Please RT @DCComics — Sean Gordon Murphy (@Sean_G_Murphy) November 15, 2013 Something I should clarify regarding the info about the African-American Robin being introduced in in Detective Comics #27 by (1/…?) — Scott Snyder (@Ssnyder1835) November 16, 2013   @Ssnyder1835 and @Sean_G_Murphy The story is a vision of a distant future, sort of my Batman Year 100, but even farther[...]
Make Comics… Then Give Them Away
Wes Locher writes for Bleeding Cool; Two years ago, when I was first thinking about getting into the business of writing comics, I did what anyone else would do; I hit up a search engine and asked, "Hey, Goog…how do I break into comics?" While at first, my search results just wanted to show me pictures of[...]
Con Wars – Acme Comics Vs Ultimate Comics
Ultimate Comics runs the North Carolina Comicon, which ran last weekend at the Durham Convention Center Two weeks previous to that, rival store Acme Comics ran its first Comic Book City Con at the neighbouring Greensboro, a few miles down the 85 interstate. This year, NC Comicon doubled its size after having to turn people away last[...]
The Drugs Don't Work if They Are Imaginary – Eight Page Preview
 I'm sure very, very few of you will recognize my name from my scattered BC Con coverage reports.  A few more might recognize my name from the inside front covers of the FUBAR series of historical zombie fiction.  I've gotten about sixty pages worth of short stories published over the last two years through FUBAR Press and[...]
Kickstart From The Heart: Biker Mice From Mars
Bleeding Cool's Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic books, two successfully funded and one that wasn't.  He helps point out some of the unique Kickstarter projects that wouldn't normally be published by the big comic book companies, but deserve your attention.  Shawn is the Manager of Comic Book Programming[...]
Paul Dini, Eduardo Risso, And A Batman Character – Saturday Trending Topics
Who could it be…?  Terra Zero has just interviewed Eduardo Risso at VIII FIQ (Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos) and he stated that both he and Paul Dini are working on a new Vertigo series. Most-Read Comics Stories Saturday: Paul Dini And Eduardo Risso To Create A Batman-Related Comic For Vertigo Terra Zero has just interviewed Eduardo Risso at[...]
Chris Roberson Talks Our Man Flint, Captain Action And Wereterriers
But I discovered him in an article about the Gil Kane-drawn Captain Action comics in Amazing Heroes when I was in middle school, and was immediately intrigued Now, thanks to Ed Catto, I have both a CA and a Doctor Evil on my shelf! JN: What's your favorite spy-genre work?  James Bond vs Jason Bourne vs[...]
Battling Paul Pope, Round Two – And Battling Boy Volume Two
In a world where comics creators and companies seem to be drawn towards ever more modern, scientific, complicated or esoteric powers for their characters, what drew you to returning to the classics? I wanted something simple and sort of fun, in the sense of playful I had been reading a lot of old Silver Age comics[...]
Paul Dini And Eduardo Risso To Create A Batman-Related Comic For Vertigo
Terra Zero has just interviewed Eduardo Risso at VIII FIQ (Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos) and he stated that both he and Paul Dini are working on a new Vertigo series. And it will star a character from the Batman comics. Let's let Google Translate fill you in Or at least, scratch your head quizzically. Eduardo Risso and Paul[...]
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – Back In Batman (UPDATE)
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. There was no competition for this week's winner Batman #25 Batman #25 Batman #25. Batman #25 All New X-Men #18 Justice League of America #9 Superior Spider-Man #21 Walking[...]
The Shaming Of Sexual Harassment By Social Media
What is important though that she brings up wider aspects of how women are often treated in the comics industry, how such treatment is hidden, and why people won't name names It's not one name, it's many This time however, it seems to be being recognised, with articles on The Beat and The Outhouse, and[...]
A Digital Comics Kickstarter? That'll Teach Us!
And we're pretty sure we know why — the rewards are mostly digital. We know that backers of comic Kickstarters usually want physical stuff, as at some point Kickstarter became less of a place to make the unmakeable get made, and more the place to "pre-order" your books and tchotchkes. It'll be a challenge, for sure. And if[...]