Comics Archives

Making The Panel Work For Its Supper: Chin Music #1 by Steve Niles and Tony Harris
A private investigator in an undetermined city being hired to deal with crime, demons and angels, under the surface. Well next week, Image also publish Chin Music #1, featuring a man in Chicago dealing with crime and demons, under the surface. But they approach comics in remarkably different fashions. Ten Grand goes for the private dick potboiler, given[...]
Talking To Len Wein About His Career, His Legacy And Before Watchmen
This is not an easy thing to do as Wein has been in the industry for four decades and has been the subject of renewed interest in recent months, having made a major contribution to DC's Before Watchmen comics, writing Ozymandias and Crimson Corsair. After we got comfy at his table in Artist's Alley, we began[...]
Want To Be a DC Inking Assistant In San Fernando Valley?
From CraigsList… an ad to be an assistant for a comic book inker, working for DC Comics, located in San Fernando Valley. Who could it be? DC COMIC BOOK ARTIST SEEKING INKING ASSISTANTS (San Fernando Valley) Are you a talented artist looking to gain experience in the comic book field? If sothese are 2 great entry level positions[...]
Cosplay All Over The World – C2E2
Alex Wilson sends in cosplay photos from C2E2 at Chicago... I think the UP house is particularly fine. If you are a cosplayer featured, or if you know who
Valerie Gallaher Quits MTV Geek
Valerie Gallaher, possibly better known to Bleeding Cool by her maiden name, Valerie D'Orazio, has quit MTV Geek, the site that she's headed up writing for, for the past two and a half years, making it Viacom's top performing blog. An ex-editor at DC Comics, her experiences there provoked a fireball of outrage and debate when[...]
Kickstart From The Heart: Elaine Lee And Michael Kaluta's Starstruck
But if we don't make enough to do the printing, we will at least have a finished book to take to a publisher. MWK: Throughout the years between the Dark Horse b/w Starstruck Issues and the beautiful color Starstruck volume from IDW, Elaine and I shook various trees hoping to dislodge a publisher: twice during that[...]
Comics Alliance Closed – Monday Trending Topics
Monday sucks: Comics Alliance's parent company AOL has pulled the plug on the site. Launched by Laura Hudson, Comics Alliance became a home for intelligent reviews, hilarious snark, outraged reaction and curious cosplay. Most-Read Comic Stories Monday: Parody And Be Damned – DC Comics Boycotts The Outhouse At C2E2, Outhousers writers approached PR exec Alex Segura about interviewing DC Comics[...]
The Extraordinary Demographic Of Alan Moore And Kevin O'Neill
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_tp2UQuvKY[/youtube] A video taken of the recent Nemo: Heart Of Ice signing by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill at Gosh! Comics in London. Most comic book signings, especially of creators predominently known for their superhero work feature a certain demographic White, male, of a certain size and a certain beard length[...]
Carol Tilley Spends Ten Hours At C2E2. It's An Education.
University of Illinois assistant professor Carol Tilley writes for Bleeding Cool; First, forgive me my errors and omissions: I'm a comics scholar, not a comics journalist, so this is not a standard con accounting I got to spend about ten hours ensconced at C2E2, held in the behemoth but civilized-enough-to-have-a-salad-bar McCormick Place West building[...]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes – A Plus X Switcheroo!
The actual comics say another So what changes are happening to your comics in coming weeks? Nathan Edmundson & Humberto Ramos will now have a story in A+X #9, not A+X #8 Gerry Duggan & Salvador Larroca will now have a story in A+X #8, not A+X #9 Switcheroo! Cable & X-Force #9 will be written by[...]
Comics Alliance Closed By AOL
Comics Alliance's parent company AOL has pulled the plug on the site. Launched by Laura Hudson, Comics Alliance became a home for intelligent reviews, hilarious snark, outraged reaction and curious cosplay.  I was told by CA contributors of issues with AOL owners/managers over content – though editor Andy Khouri says that is "horseshit"[...]
Darth Vader And Son And Princess
You can tell that Darth Vader really loves Luke, but has a hard time conveying his feelings when he has to also appear to be the evil Sith Lord we all know and fear. After a successful career of his autobiographical comics, it's great to see Jeffrey Brown getting the respect and attention he deserves on[...]
The Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – A Weekly Comic Store Top Ten Chart?
No's Comics & Games SuperStore, Marietta GA Big Planet Comics of College Park, MD Heroes, London, Ontario So I was thinking about charts We run the ComiXology chart which shows sales through the iOS App on a Wednesday And was wondering if I could do the same for comic shops Recording their sales on a Wednesday and[...]
X-Men: Battle Of The Atom – Friday Trending Topics
And his "Death Every Quarter" from a couple of years ago may have been a joke, but Marvel seem to have stuck to it… The Superman Unchained Foldout, Peeling Off The Joker's Skin, Free Green Lantern Rings Again And A New Infinite Crisis Videogame – DC Comics At Chicago So here's how this foldout in Superman Unchained[...]
Is Iron Man 3 The Last Iron Man Movie For Awhile? Thursday Trending Topics
In context with the report from IDW earlier today, it does give a rather telling picture, doesn't it? This variant cover will be available in these places. DC To Push Their "Essential" Collections In New Catalogue  At the Diamond retailer summit, currently playing out in Chicago, DC Comics unveiled a free 128 page catalogue of their own,[...]
Gendercrunching February 2013
We also take a look at the evolution of how many different comic books featured a female creator over the past two years. DC COMICS DC rose slightly from last month, staying solidly above their 2012 average In February 2013, DC put out 74 new comic books with 637 credited creators, 560 men and 77 women Let's[...]
X-Men: Days Of Future Past Adds Sunspot? Sunday Trending Topics
Not because I like printed comics, but because I love comic stores I love what they offer There I can have a friendly, social experience: browsing, chatting about comics, seeing what's available, flicking through new series Because of this unique, niche experience that a store can offer, I don't think digital is going to kill[...]
No Miracleman At The End Of Age Of Ultron – Thursday Trending Topics
Of course, no we'll wonder… anywhere else? But for now there's this: When we originally said that Age Of Ultron #10 would see a non-Marvel character join the publisher, everyone guessed it was Marvelman. Most-Read Comic Stories Thursday: Is This The Justice Legion?  A few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran the rumour that Legion Of Superheroes may be[...]