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It's time to play that game with DC Comics, where we point out something just a little bit sexual about one of the covers of their comics, they get all cross with Bleeding Cool, but by the time it actually comes out they amend the cover and save themselves a modicum of embarassment, in printed[...]

Louis Falcetti reports from a hopefully-unusual sight from New York Comic Con. And provides photographic evidence. Isn't that lovely? A swastiki painted

This feels surreal…I miss the place already. And then tweeting; Okay, the obvious answer is 'both' but if you had a gun to your head..Battle Chasers game? OR more BC comics? #decisions#curious#hmmm Before teasing; I'll be talking more about 'The Next Big Thing' in the coming months, but in the short term, I'm focusing on banging out a bunch[...]

So I was in the Comics Museum in London this weekend, as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, as my kids got an impressive lesson in character design from Steve Marchant.Turns out I may have to be back for halt term next week, here's what they have planned as far as children's lessons are concerned… I[...]

Orboital Comics plans for Hallowe'en are, well, um… Private view/Halloween party Oct 31st 2012 7.30-9.30 at Orbital Comics Costumes are, apparently, encouraged Or, it seems, a lack of them The exhibition runs from now for a month… Exhibition artists include Junko Mizuno, Rockin' JellyBean, Rufus Dayglo, Graham Humphreys, Gaye Black, Shaky Kane, Dennis Franklin, Tom Spencer, Billy[...]

From Berk Senturk... the Justice League Of The Ottoman Empire... I think these are fairly identifiable...   Of course, every JLOE needs a bad guy.  And...

Shaky Kane writes; This week's offering features  VID VICIOUS and NUKE PUKE' EM of legendary cyber assailants DEDDERS  on the cover of an imaginary comic

Now, after ComixTribe signed a distribution deal with Diamond Comics Distributors, shops across the world will get a chance to see what the fuss was all about. THE RED TEN is a ten-issue superhero re-telling of Agatha Christie's classic whodunit "And Then There Were None," written by Tyler James and drawn by Cesar Feliciano, with covers by[...]

Writers only have so many pages to tell a story in comics but with one shots you don't have the added help of more issues to follow This comic has only 32 pages of actual story telling, granted more than the average comic but still not much to pack a story into. The story starts off[...]

Here is the first issue of Dynamite's Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt absolutely free, legal, totally above board. The second issue came out this week. So if

Joel Meadows writes; Before Bleeding Cool, there was TRIPWIRE magazine. In 2012, it celebrates its 20th anniversary and so it’s crowd funding at Unbound

Alex Wilson writes for Bleeding Cool; Comics should always be a source of amusement for their reader After all, comics are a part of the entertainment industry and when a comic becomes uninteresting people stop reading it An old saying from our favorite caped crusader "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to[...]

Which included an aggressive media prescence spearheaded, publicly at least, by Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada. During that time a number of disparaging statements were made against DC Comics, alleging that the company, and Publisher and President Paul Levitz was responsible for mismanagement and not financially exploiting the success of Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman[...]

Where the successful pieces in this anthology take the established tropes of being a hipster and twist them in some unexpected to elicit comedy – this piece is just simply too meta to work – which makes it into that which the issue should be making fun of. This magazine is formatted to be equally comprised[...]

For comics it's always fun to chart someone's adolescent comic development with Leifeld, who when you're 13, is the greatest artist you have ever seen He's the artist that stage in comic fandom development Then you're supposed to get a little older and move on from enormous guns and tiny heads The Comic Convention also[...]

Because much is based on comics that have been essential-reading classics for a long time Of course, it's remixed and built on for film, but still — if you made a list of Spider-Man storylines that they'd likely build a movie around sooner or later, this one would be pretty high on your list. Most-Read TV/Film[...]

This is what people send me after comic conventions. Honestly. Hey, I ran into the guys who create the web comic "Cyanide and Happiness." I asked them to

At the New York Comic Con, I happened to find myself at one of the DC Comics panels And I couldn;t help but hear a most entertaining conversation behind me, before the panel began Turning round, I met Lucy Noonan And now you get to meet her too… Recently I attended the Arrow panel at New[...]

Photo by Seth Kushner. If any aspiring comic book creators were still under the impression that bringing their project to Hollywood would be an easy endeavor, or a hard endeavor, Friday's "Comics, Hollywood – What Creators Need To Know" panel put those hopes to rest It's not easy, it's not just hard, it's damn near impossible. One[...]

My favourite Superman line is "They will join you in the sun." From All Star Superman. I was pleased to see it also being used in Man Of Steel. And then

On the left, Canadian punk band D.O.A's new album We Come in Peace. And on the right, the cover to Secret Warriors #7 by Jim Cheung. Peace or War? You decide!

Check out the most funded tables: http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/comics/most-funded?page=2 I've included some preview pages through the review, the last two are preview art not from issue one: So that beauty I was referring to: The underscapes, styling and character design are reminiscent of some of the best science fiction that I've read[...]

The second part, The Hive, continues the original story, and solidifies Burns' place as one of the finest cartoonists working today. Charles Burns is sort of the David Lynch of the comics world, exploring the dark, surreal edges of consciousness in strange, feverish stories of sexual mutation, psychedelic nightmares and paranoiac dreamscape His dark, distinctive art[...]

And a few others for 2013. Paul – I've been drawing comics for about a decade now I mostly Publish with Image, but I drew Spider-man once I have an upcoming series from Image with Chris Roberson called Reign, and a series written by Joe Casey over at Dark Horse called Catalyst Comix Both will be[...]

Thanks to Little Bleeder Paul DiFilippo for this one. On the left, a panel from Demon Knights, on the right, a scene from Asterix & Cleopatra. In

A quick google discovers that address linked to another attempted comics scam to sell supposed artwork by Art Adams, and use of yet another pseudonym, Joshua DeLava. Including trying to sell the following forgeries; some based on work in Mike Burkey's art collection, a man he previously tried to scam. And googling Joshua DeLava unveils a[...]

Within hours of Rick being named the trustee of his Grandparent's estate, he was aggressively arrested while driving his mother to the Social security offices on completely factless untrue charges, and his VERY good name was dragged through the mud of the comics industry, based only on a factless accusation by his sister. I am pleased[...]

You've got robots, you've got time travel, you've got superheroes." The Age Of Ultron In Marvel Point One This is the double page promising all and sundry for Marvel NOW! in the months to come… but what's that in the background? Numbercrunching The DC New 52 Year-On-Year  There are some who have taking last month's comic book sales numbers,[...]

Patrick Willems went to NYCC for Bleeding Cool. He went and did this with Mark Waid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8yKXlnva9g Thanks Mark! Oh, and go to