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The Bleeding Cool competition. Redesign The Shadow,win an Alex Ross sketch cover of The Shadow #1 and a Jae Lee sketch cover of #1. Here are some of the

I have a house here but the process of getting a loan would take time and I can't be gone long away from the hospital. LabWatch: Viz Labs led by Gagan Singh is the new home at Viz Media for innovating digital content. ComicsOnComicsActionWatch: I always (twice) to the Comics On Comics panel at San Diego Comic[...]

It's been a busy few days on the DC Comics front… Chris Roberson acts, DC reacts, and everyone — including Jim Lee and Dan Didio — talks about it  Then there's New 52 wave 2 and Before Watchmen sneaks And the week is just getting started. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Is Boy Chimney The Great DC Character[...]

California's Collector's Paradise has two stores involved heavily with Free Comic Book Day this May the 5th, one in Padadena, the other in Canoga Park. Signing talent includes Ed Brubaker, Steven Niles, Josh Fialkov, Jim McCann, Kyle Higgins, Rodin Esquejo, Sonia Oback, Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko, Cbisy and Shane Houghton and Matt Whitlock. Theor Free Comic[...]

Thursday is the last day retailers can order the preview issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine issue zero, coming out at the end of May/beginning of June. It's

Add to that roster names like Peter Bagge, Simon Bisley, Kevin Eastman and Bernie Wrightson and it's clear that the Boston Comic Con isn't the Con people are lamenting when they gnash their teeth and moan, "Oh none of the conventions are even about comics anymore." And that's what makes the Boston Comic Con easily the[...]

Bleeding Cool have run a number of concerned comments on the quality of DC Comics' thick hardbacks of late, and how a number of them can be unreadable. Dan DiDio promised that the concern had been noted and that things would be fixed by the time of the New Teen Titans Omnibus So how did he[...]

On Free Comic Book Day on May the 5th, DC Vertigo will be giving away a preview of their adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, adapted by Denise

Photo from C2E2 by Anna Fischer. Chris Roberson is the first to publicly quit DC Comics asa result of Before Watchmen Will he be the last? And with out DC zero issue story getting publicly confirmed, and more Before Watchmen work making it out, it looks like DC Comics is rather dominating the news agenda right[...]

BAKUMAN follows manga artist Mashiro Moritaka and his writing partner Takagi Akito as they progress from aspiring comics creators at the end of high school to Bright Young Newcomers to established-but-struggling pros and finally their twenties where they arrive with a top-selling series with an anime adaptation. I call BAKUMAN a time capsule for the Japanese[...]

BuzzFeed, in its tour of DC offices the other day, had a sneak peek about The New Six, the new books joining the New 52. Let's have a quick look and

BuzzFeed, after their trip around the DC Offices, were allowed to take some shots of the Before Watchmen comic books, including these Rorschach pages by

Last week, Bleeding Cool announced that in September DC would give all the original New 52 titles an issue 0, telling year one, with regular numbering

Today, Valiant Entertainment launches their new logo, designed by Rian Hughes. I like it. It's also reminiscent of Rian's most famous logo, for Forbidden

The other day, I linked to the then-upcoming LA Times panel with Dan DiDio and Jim Lee, hosted by Geoff Boucher and jokingly asked if he'd mention Chris

This week sees the publication of Captain American Idol and ScienTHORlogy from Boom, with The Avengefuls' scheduled for next week. Avengefuls artist

The top three are (spoilers) The High School Baseball Team by Lee Hyun-se, Le Grand Chef by Huh Young-man and romantic graphic novel "Goong, The Royal Palace," by Park So-hee. TenThousandWatch: One Indian digital comic producer claims to sell up to ten thousand motion comics, in Hini and English, every day. Somil Gupta, co-founder of Planet 41 Mobiventures[...]

Perhaps most importantly, it's one of the most impressive webcomics accomplishments, updating five days a week in full color with a caliber of writing and art that consistently sharpens as it experiments Creator Jeph Jacques has found new and innovative techniques of storytelling to produce a comic that explores life and love with laughter and[...]

But Ike is uncharmable.") New York-based industry veteran Heidi MacDonald backs this up, saying; Although Marvel's publishing business is still being more or less left alone to do its comics thing, it is increasingly in the middle of Disney's New York real estate problem Disney Publishing's lease on its New York office is up and a new[...]

Eliot Cole writes for Bleeding Cool; I read the other day that this run has been receiving some amount of criticism online of late, I'm here to tell you

IMAX cinemas will promote Free Comic Book Day 2012 to their email subscribers and on their website, as well as tweeting, Faceboking and the like, in association with their Marvel Marathon running before the midnight release of Avengers the day before Free Comic Book Day. Larry's Comics of Lowell, Massachusetts, will have David Petersen, creator of[...]

But when it comes to producing work that is indescribably strange and yet beautiful, even he must bow before the "mad genius" of French comics, Nicolas de Crecy. DigitalWatch: Marvel is being seen as a digital pioneer for their embedded digital code in print copies… and the New York Post sees it as a model for[...]

And given what we've heard about the comics themselves, this line of conversation might be continuing for quite some time. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Is This The First Before Watchmen Continuity Error? The viral marketing page for Before Watchmen, purporting to show a page from The New Frontiersman, as the superheroes are being disbanded in 1977, years before[...]

The viral marketing page for Before Watchmen, purporting to show a page from The New Frontiersman, as the superheroes are being disbanded in 1977, years

But some stores will be doing even more… Third Eye Comics will be opening their expanded store in Annapolis, Maryland Moving to the West-2 Shopping Center on 2027 West Street, and doubling their size, they'll have a bunch of comic book creators on hand for signings. Such as Jerry Gaylord, artist of Fanboys Vs Zombies, CP Wilson[...]

I blame Chris Bachalo. He started it around the time of Death, The High Cost Of Living, giving cute characters a smudge on their nose. Possibly to suggest

Dynamite Entertainment are reviving the Harris character Pantha in a new series that will definitively prove that the nineties are back. She stalks the

How a city government helped a seven year old kid with leukemia fulfill his dreams. Even if they happen to want to be Batman.

But will the LA Times' Geoff Boucher ask them about Chris Roberson? DriverWatch: Shia LaBeouf, continuing his attempt to enshrine his reputation as a comic book creator, is offering his expired drivers license as a Kickstarter reward to the people fundraising for the Coast City Comics in Portland, Maine FriendWatch: Robert Kirkman talks about working for[...]

It's been an eventful week on this subject, Rich sums it up in today's top post: Earlier this week, Chris Roberson announced on Twitter that he was going to quit DC Comics as a writer on the conclusion of iZombie, and after the Fairest arc he'd committed to writing He cited concerns over the publisher's morality[...]