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Here's a little look at some of the Comics Village running at MCM London Comic Con this year, As ex-organiser Emma Vieceli said, less Comics Village, more Comicopolis… k Bigger, More tables Bigger tables More artists and publishers Here's a little look at some of the Comics Village running at MCM London Comic Con this year,[...]

More people, more booths,more tables in Comics Village More on that in an hour but first, the cosplay of MCM London Comic Con. [...]

Last night, Bleeding Cool ran the news that Al Plastino was objecting to the auctioning of his Superman artwork that featured a story with President

Seeing six artists who are astounding and are genuinely some of my favourite artists working today doing comics all on the same story is kind of inspiring Like Ming [Doyle]'s roughs came in and look great. In terms of the end of the season, we're not really in a position where we want to talk about[...]

Last night, Bleeding Cool ran the story of an allegation from Hannibal Tabu that the store manager of Los Angeles comic store Comics Ink ripped up a copy of I#1, the new Image comic book by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios, over a perceived lack of quality in the comic. Image Comics took to twitter[...]

Peter Parker has been fired from Horizon Labs. Spider-Man is no longer welcome there. So... what next? Well, from the recap page of this week's Daredevil;

We also look at the New York Times graphic novel bestsellers over the past year and see how their numbers stack up against the Big Two. DC COMICS There was a nice uptick for DC this month overall, and some good showings by category as well In August 2013, DC released 73 new comics featuring 663 credited[...]

So, the original X-Men Legacy comic (the then-retitled X-Men/New X-Men comic) ended with issue 275. The new X-Men Legacy comic written by Si Spurrier ends

Your contributions are greatly appreciated and will help us maintain the site, get new equipment, and encourage us to keep going on those cold lonely nights. Chris Thompson's Twitter: @popculturehound Orbital Comics' website: www.orbitalcomics.com Ulises Farinas' Twitter: @ulises_f Ulises Farinas' website: ulisesfarinas.com Erick Freitas' Twitter: @ScriptPit Erick Freitas' website: scriptpit.com And you can check out Ulises' original concept art for Gamma (as[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GXp8tmcaiw[/youtube] Recorded last night at Orbital Comics The exhibition runs well into November Here are some close ups – but seeing the art in person is so much better. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GXp8tmcaiw[/youtube] Recorded last night at Orbital Comics The exhibition runs well into November[...]

I'm taking my girls and one of the eldest's friends to the show – and we'll probably be going by cable car! This evening, Orbital Comics is putting on the film Better Things about the life of artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones, and I understand a number of his contemporaries may be in the audience Orbital Comics[...]

Obviously Ales Kot started it off, based on a possibly erroneous report of a comics retailer ripping up a copy of Pretty Deadly But Brandon Graham was there to carry it on It's possible Brian Wood should stop reading now. @ales_kot and and maybe some talk of being honest about people's work and what goes[...]

In Hannibal Tabu's latest column, The Buy Pile, at CBR, he reported; The retailer at Comics Ink made the case that "Pretty Deadly" #1 has superseded "The Monarchy" as the worst comic ever The case that was made was that this comic combined "psycho babble, [being] pretentious, bad writing and meandering." While it has only one[...]

Whether it was ever in possession of a museum we don't know, but as many collectors know, museums de-accession pieces all the time. As to how the photo of Al with the art came about: As many of you already know, all of us in the comics dept., in addition to just working there, are huge comic[...]

Troy Akridge and Trent Pitts write; Nashville, Tennessee is known as the “Music City.” You can walk down Broadway past the legendary honkytonks and pass

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! As well[...]

I think it says it all, though it might be worth going here for further illumination. She made the event a call to action for women who want to work in comics to get on with it She has a point Every month, Bleeding Cool runs Gendercrunching articles (another one lined up today) showing the male/female[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool, starting today We're going to get letters… Illustration by James Rhodes. I'm Just Wrong. Although the very first sentence I wrote for my very first[...]

 Along with Marcos Martin, Paulo Rivera, Chris Samnee and more, Mark Waid relaunched Daredevil a few years ago, only for the book to become a critical darling, an award getter and one of the few books Marvel reader felt obliged to share with non-comics readers. Most-Read Comic Stories Wednesday: The End Of Mark Waid's Daredevil? Along with Marcos[...]

This was the solicitation copy for Iron Man #20.INH • Who will be the next MANDARIN?! • Will an INHUMAN threaten Tony’s plan to build the city of

Entertainment Weekly, MTV, THR, even the Windsor Star all jumped on this one, as Marvel decided to run the news of the big plot twist in the new Iron Man.

There have been a few worthy claimants to this title… Nate Stemen is one… but I think this fellow just pips him to the post for the Rob Granito of 2013. Jeff Watkins from Syracuse, NY, owner of Cloud City Comics and Toys has been in touch This is a photograph he took at Buffalo Comic[...]

This is the cover to Bluewater's third biographical comic about Lady Gaga (in comparison, Hilary Clinton has only been worth of on). But is it familiar at

Neil Gaiman has his copies. Soon, you'll have yours...

We've already pointed out (and ran video) of IDW's plans to sell My Little Pony mini-comics in mass market retail stores, aimed at children Indeed, just seeing them opened up by my kids has apparently changed IDW's mind about how they'll package the comics They are serious about using this as a way to target[...]

Two Image Comics launches for today, Pretty Deadly #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios, and Velvet #1 by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, have sold out of their 57,000 print runs, from Diamond Comic Distributors. Now, both books were made returnable if retailers ordered significant amounts, and this figure does not account for any[...]

Rather than getting all manner of comics in a haphazard unreliable fashion from newsstand distribution, retailers could order exactly what they wanted of exactly which comics they wanted And were then stuck with them, for a higher discount than the returnability option would cost them And that's how comic shops work. It was the launch of[...]

Rover Red Charlie is the new mini-series from Garth Ennis and Michael Dipascale. It tells the an apocalyptical tale from a trio with wagging tails. Order

Not all the comics with Marvel AR on the front have Marvel AR videos inside And what does work… if often very silly Here are some from the last couple of weeks. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdVTDmdxrc[/youtube] Not all the Marvel AR works Not all the comics with Marvel AR on the front have Marvel AR videos inside[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Q9KRvYjyk Thank you Patrick. And thank you Kieron!