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There is a finite amount of space on the customers drives. Can you see Dave making digital-only original comics at any point? Good question! Personally, I have a wishlist… But, I would like to put that question by Dave the next time I talk to him. The Cerebus Digital 6000 Project is well underway at Kickstarter and[...]

At the Garth Ennis panel during the Phoenix Comic Con last weekend, the man of the hour talked about his FuryMAX series, and how following the Bay Of Pigs

The man sat next to me at dinner and that's when I found out how extra cool he was! He knows so much about movies plus he definitely knows his comics Para siyang kabarkada mo lang Seriously He's like another fanboy in the group and finding out that he's down to earth makes him so[...]

Another Thursday, another weekly chapter of Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. Or rather another interlude. Slow

 I always wrote my own comics but never could illustrate them, but thankfully my friends were all artists  I remember I wrote a lot of Dragon Ball Z fan fiction as a lad I hope those are never found. CV: When drawing, I see it as a film playing through my head  The way I usually[...]

Okay, it's time to go over my notes from Phoenix Comic Con... it's amazing what you hear and then suddenly forget. Unless you write it down. I had Katana,

8am PT, 11am ET, 4pm BST… DigiWatch: The New York Times the new mainstream of digital comics. Mr Waid said digital comics called for new skills, particularly in pacing and presentation "With a printed comic, the only place I can surprise you as a reader is the upper left-hand corner," he said, referring to the narrative opportunity[...]

Bleeding Cool understands that Ape Entertainment is about to launch a DreamWorks Animation Comics App for iPad and iPhone on Apple's App Store. The free app includes 40 pages of free comics including previews, prequels, short stories and more from Ape Entertainment's Dreamworks comics such as Kung Fu Panda, Megamind, The Penguins of Madagascar, Puss In[...]

Green Lantern Vol 3 #144. Might be worth a quick peek. If only for scenes like this, with Kyle Rayner and Alan Scott... Although scenes with his daughter

Though I'm told by DC sources that the one that comes out in two weeks, Silk Spectre, is really the one to look out for. Next week brings the DC tenth issues, a potential outing for Alan Scott in Earth 2 #2, the first issue of Creator Owned Heroes from Image, the Spawn 20th anniversary issue,[...]

DC Comics are trying to increase the amount of copies MAD Magazine stocked by comic stores To that effect they are going to overship the next four issues to comic store retailers, encouraging them to see how much it could sell on the shelves. Issue #516 will be Spider-Man themed, with a Spider Alfred E Neuman[...]

That's certainly shows the power of a license. Not only is Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation 2 from IDW the first monthly comic to

Before Watchmen Comedian also gets a bump, Walking Dead #99 gets a rise,  and Night Of The Owls gets pushed down the chart… TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs ( 5/21-5/27)               Description SRP Supplier ASTONISHING X-MEN #51 $3.99 MAR AVENGERS VS X-MEN #6 (OF 12) AVX $3.99 MAR SANDMAN SLIPCASE SET (MR) $199.99 DC ASTONISHING X-MEN #51 CREATE YOUR OWN WEDDING VAR $3.99 MAR AVENGERS VS X-MEN #1[...]

Before Watchmen begins next week, DC Comics continue to show off new variant covers from the likes of Jim Lee and Kevin Nowlan, below. One they can't show off, however is John Byrne's Byrne hasn't produced new work for Marvel and DC in some time, and has seemingly fallen out with the management to such an[...]

The New Deadwardians is rapidly becoming one of my favourite books on the market, and each issue cements it further. It is certainly my favourite work of

Well, we get a retcon here, but of a very different variety and one that plunges at the very heart of Mr Freeze's sanity, and grip on reality. And naturally, for Mr Freeze, it's a very slippery grip. Batman Annual #1 courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting a Dan Parent Archie Comics exhibition. Nora Freis, the[...]

And that's a very strange thing to say about Chew. The question remains then… what the hell are they planning for issue one hundred? You really ought to be reading this comic monthly, you know. The Walking Dead #98 courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting a Dan Parent Archie Comics exhibition. And there I was thinking they'd[...]

The funding of an audio/visual/digital version of the Cerebus story High Society was received on Kickstarter even quicker than Sullivan's Sluggers... less

Joe... In the shuffling, deranged footsteps of Dick Briefer's Frankenstein and Bob Powell's Terror comes a thrilling, spine-tingling collection of classic, taboo horror comics.  Hitting shelves with a vengeance tomorrow, IDW Publishing and Yoe Books are proud to present ZOMBIES! Quotes of the day | J Michael Straczynski vs reviewer's 'cheap shot' | Robot 6 @ Comic[...]

Yesterday, we ran an article about a short program that had been written, designed to download ComiXology comics files that had been paid for, and keep them permanently on your desktop And of a post on Reddit that detailed the operation succinctly. The post was swiftly deleted Its author writes; Yeah, that was me I was contacted[...]

He began working on the colours for the book. Then covers. And now, with issue 4, Argentinian colourist Diego Simone will be taking over from Robert Love

What this means for Diamond's move into digital distibution, letting customers instore download digital comics,  is as yet unknown After an aggressive and exciting launch, it seems to have gone off the boil of late. This downsizing may be a consequence of this… Representatives of Diamond Comic Distributors did not not return e-mails sent this morning on[...]

And the media cycle began again. Again, I hear the repeated cry, "why not just create another character intended to be gay? Why change an existing character?" Here's my best answer. Superhero comics are a conservative genre I don't specifically mean in a political sense, though the exploits of individuals who take personal responsibility rather than relying[...]

Next year, Fantagraphics are to publish the Last Laugh by André Franquin in English – the first new attempt in decades,  Franquin was a true master in French comics, popular amongst critics and readers, and this is considered his later experimental masterpiece, Idées Noires. He also created the incredibly popular comic strips Gaston and Marsupilami, while[...]

Si Spurrier instructs; THE GODDAM COUTURE BATMAN Let’s do something pure and redesigny. 2012. Bruce Wayne realises his relentless crusade against the

Lea Hernandez is a stalwart of modern comics Working with Warren Ellis and Gail Simone – but mostly on her own – she pioneered the vanguard to creating original manga-styled graphic novels and continues to push in that direction on a regular basis. And now she's joined the Kickstarter movement for her latest project, attracting support[...]

This is the cover as solicited to Superman issue nine. This is the actual cover. And this is how the character looks now. A little less of the Girl With A

Keep your Earth 2 #1 in good nick, and start queuing up for Earth 2 #2… right about now. Could We Get A New Justice League Of America? DC Comics is cancelling the title Justice League International with #12 and its Annual, despute the book selling well It is expected to be replaced by a similar title. Most-Read[...]

It was rather a surprise in the recent Hero Comics 2012 anthology from Image Comics last week, to benefit the Hero Initiative An Elephantmen strip, written and drawn by Cerebus' Dave Sim with the character's creator Richard Starkings, taking one scene, and drawing it again and again in different panel perspectives and layout Still creating[...]

As digital comics compete to create more innovative experiences unique to that medium, this shows how much more room and scope there still is for physical print comics to do new things. Below is a video flick through of the first two issues of Sioux Warrior, from Cape Fear Comics by Sam Gardner Jr, Lee O'Connor and Jake[...]