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Jack Chick's The Walking Dead
Today we celebrate a Chick tract comic book, espousing the more radical evangelical Christian thinking as always, and jumping onto the pop cultural
Lying In The Gutters – 30th April 2012
Rumours Of DC Editorial Changes Circle Comics Industry 7 Buffy The Vampire Slayer XXX: A Porn Parody By… Josh Wheldon 8 Marvel Comics Make Agent Coulson Part Of The 616 9 Pixar Announce New Film, Reveal Title For Another 10 Joe Quesada, Joss Whedon And Colossus 11 Twelve Thoughts About Twelve Comics Today 12 Old "Friend" From James Cameron's Aliens Shows[...]
Countdown To The Eisners by Cameron Hatheway: Anthology And Comedy
Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; Another week comes and goes on Bleeding Cool, and now let us cease our mindless bickering about what forces are at work destroying comics, and focus on celebrating some damn good ones instead This week we'll be looking at Best Anthology and Best Humor Publication If you need a[...]
Marvel Fashion Stylings Hit Australia
Fashion Week in Australia opened with this nineteen sixties Marvel inspired collection from the Romance Was Born studio designers Anna Plunkett and Luke
Monday Runaround – Bats, Bobby Pins And Box Office
So I think I'm just going to tell myself that she's not going to see this interview. BobbyWatch: Jamie Rich web-publishes a novel, Bobby Pins & Mary Janes, set in the comics industry Start looking for parallels… now! You can download a PDF here… A large part of why Parker thought it would be worthwhile to hang on to[...]
Professor Paul Levitz To Teach The Future
He'll be teaching PUB 615, Comics & Graphic Novels this autumn, before moving to PUB 619, The Future of Publishing: Transmedia. Paul Levitz writes about his upcoming position; If you told me when I first sat down at an Assistant Editor's desk that I'd be trading in my typewriter, rubber cement and rubdown Letraset for a computer[...]
Stumptown Comics Fest: Heavy Ink
One of the highlights of Saturday's programme was the Heavy Ink panel which brought together three of the hottest indie talents to discuss the convergence between music and comics. Tom Neely is the creator of The Wolf — a silent graphic novel inspired by the aesthetic of heavy metal — as well as the publisher of[...]
Rick Olney Interviewed By… Artful Angie
A couple of weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran a piece on the About Heroes podcast, and their decision to run what appeared to be a puff piece interview with Rick Olney that talked about his history in comics, without at any point mentioning all the money he owed creators and the way he had treated[...]
Sunday Runaround – Pekar, Positions And PVP
PekarWatch: "Harvey Pekar's Cleveland" by Harvey Pekar and artist Joseph Remnant is to have a Cleveland book-release party at 7 pm on Tuesday at Big Dog Theater in Cleveland Heights. DiamondWatch: Want a job at Diamond? Tom Mason has found five open positions… PVPWatch: Scott Kurtz sees Mark Waid's Thrillbent as the future of comics. Webcomicers have[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: Avengers Ever After
 Because I think BCers have some pretty good ideas about the implications of that credits scene, and what it might mean for a certain character –or even characters — who have been in the news recently. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Rumours Of DC Editorial Changes Circle Comics Industry Some have seen this as Editor-In-Chief Bob Harras slowly pushing[...]
FCBD 2012: Orbital, Gosh And Forbidden Planet, London, UK
On Saturday morning, we'll be getting the bus, then two tube trains into Central London with a gaggle of young girls to raid the comic shops of London like they are giving away free comics Which they are. Orbital Comics will have Simon Furman, Andy Wildman, Stephen Baskerville, John-Paul Bove and Jason Cardy signing copies of[...]
Saturday Runaround – An Off Page Death
4 Color 8 Bit Comics And Games, Jetpack Comics, Keith's Comics, Night Flight Comics, Chattanoogan Downtown Library and more find it an easy pitch. DevilWatch: David James Kelly is to rewrite the new Daredevil movie for David Slade to direct. SlottWatch: Dan Slott on leaving Formspring; I get that I'm someone whose work you don't like and it[...]
Friday Trending Topics: The Convergence Of The Marvel Empire
But in disguise. Rumours Of DC Editorial Changes Circle Comics Industry  Nevertheless there does seem to be some editorial reorganisation going around the company, but little being stated and announced And gossip loves a vacuum. Is Marvel Making A New Marvel Family? (SPOILERS)  We knew it might well be coming in Secret Avengers #27[...]
Rumours Of DC Editorial Changes Circle Comics Industry
In recent weeks, David Hyde VP Publicity left DC Comics, Eddie Berganza was demoted to Group Editor from Executive Editor and Bobbie Chase was promoted to Editorial Director. Some have seen this as Editor-In-Chief Bob Harras slowly pushing Eddie Berganza out, but nothing can be further from the truth More reliable sources indicate the pair are[...]
"Mewling Quim" And That Mid-Credit Smile In The Avengers Movie
In the comics, the Avengers fly in Quinjets around the world No news yet if this will be changed to Quimjets, in the manner that The Bride drove The Pussy Wagon in Kill Bill… And here's the credit spoiler Your call Keep the spoiler out of the thread below as well, please. The big purple guy smiling[...]
DC New Logo Part Of A Peel Trend Of 2012
Bleeding Cool was the first to bring you news that DC Comics was getting a new logo, then to show you what it was. What we didn't know at the time was how prevalent that approach was. Logo Lounge has been looking at trends in new company logos, and identified the "peel" as one of them[...]
First Appearance of Iron Man In Tales of Suspense #39 Sells for Record $375,000
It's an Avengers world these days, and not only are they here to help save it, but also to help put the market for Avengers-related vintage comics into overdrive   Bleeding Cool has told you about quite a few eye-popping record sales over the past year related to Avengers team members first appearances — such[...]
Buffy Vs Aliens For Free Comic Book Day?
Dark Horse Comics does like to take its licenses and play with them a little Aliens Vs Predator, Robocop Vs Terminator… But it appears that for Free Comic Book Day a week from tomorrow, there are doing something very special. The cover is a clue. I thought it was just a play on words, an intriguing title, Buffy vs Vampires[...]
An Incomplete Sleaze Castle. You May Not Know What It Is. But You Should Buy It.
It's also incredibly, incredibly British. If you like good comics, if you have an Anglophilic bone in your body, take the chance Seriously, what's $50 between friends? And you can get a hardcover volume for the same price direct from the publisher…   Asking anyone to drop $50 on a comic book they've never heard of is[...]
Grace Randolph's Between The Pages: Nick Fury – Once You Go Black Can You Ever Go Back?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFL0DqIOZXU[/youtube] Grace Randolph presents Between The Pages from the shop floor of Midtown Comics in New York, as part of her Think About The Ink videos for Bleeding Cool. Samuel L Jackson is Nick Fury in The Avengers 2012! See how this Agent of SHIELD made the leap from the pages of Marvel comics to the silver[...]