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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbWubXGFUs[/youtube] From Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, the founder of BoingBoing Mark Frauenfelder interviews Daniel Clowes on the release of The Art Of The Modern Cartoonist: Daniel Clowes. I understand that the publisher, Abrams, printed rather low and has already sold out, and it will disappear from distributors' lists rather soon…. [...]

Last night I ran a story about Bobbie Chase being promoted to Editorial Director at DC Comics But details about what was happening to Executive Editor Eddie Berganza were scattered. DC Comics have now officially told me that Eddie now has the position of Group Editor, and I quote "responsible for continuing his work on the[...]

The Sun newspaper reports that David Tennant is the model for the Simon Cowell-alike character in America's Got Powers, with writer Jonathan Ross

It's pretty fun to see DC bringing back the classic Quality Comics title National Comics this July, about 72 years after it originally debuted  Of course, Kid Eternity is also a Quality character (and we've seen Quality-related titles The Ray and Blackhawks in the New 52 — and even a Plastic Man reference, I think), DC[...]

Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool; A frankly intimidating amount of time ago, Warren Ellis described 2000AD as 'Comics with guitars' It's a lovely analogy, and it works, marrying the crackly energy of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic (So great in fact it's now twelve years past it's titular date and doesn't seem needlessly retro) with the[...]

Selling Walking Dead comics, trade paperbacks, DVDs and ephemera Maybe also sell the likes of Crossed, 28 Days Later, True Blood and the like, but the main focus, and title of the store should be The Walking Dead. You will make money. It's not so much a domination of the reorder list with Walking Dead trades and[...]

Due to legal issues, the French shop Comics Zone in Lyon that specialises in American comics held its Avengers Vs X-Men party last Saturday . They ran an X-Men cosplay competition, the winner of which will win the entire Avengers Versus X-Men crossover. Some are inspired, some are bizarre, some are… frankly… lazy But who will win?[...]

It will be followed by Captain American Idol, ScienTHORlogy and The Avengefuls later this month. I used to love some of the old Parody comics of the eighties and nineties WildBRATS and Gnatrat were particular favourites and Cerebus often got in on the action Hopefully this could be an attempt to revive that. Iron Muslim #1 is[...]

Thirteen Thoughts About Thirteen Comics 20 Steven Moffat's Audition Script For The New Doctor Who Companion And Ten You May Prefer… 1 Looking Further At Rick Olney's All Aces Entertainment 2 Morgan Spurlock's Comic Con Loses A Name 3 Chew Flash Forwards To Its Final Issue 4 La Grande Illusion Is One Of The Greatest Films Of All – Mike[...]

However, that's not keeping me from being vocal regardless! Who is not eligible to vote? Comics press or reviewers (unless they are nominees) Non-creative publisher staff members (PR, marketing, assistants, etc.) Fans Before I get back to work on my OGN so I can be eligible for next year, let the games begin! Best Short Story Nominees "A Brief History of[...]

Wired reports that in July, DC Comics are launching a new 52 series, National Comics, a book that will switch the spotlight character every issue. The first four will be Eternity, Madame X, Rose And Thorn, and Looker. Jeff Lemire and Cully Hamner will create Eternity, which appears to be similar to Kid Eternity They describe it; This[...]

JimLee is wearing a white Tuxedo, a bit tipsy, riding atop a camel… Jim Lee is now Co-Publisher of DC Comics What else has Scott found? This is something you don't see every day, an unfinished Gen13 script by Alan, first 12 pages Forgot about this Think I'll read it tonight   Scott Dunbier of IDW, and ex[...]

Well it's taken long enough. But with the third and final volume of Phonogram being announced for later this year, Immaterial Girl, it seems there's been

Spoiler, he doesn't. And then there's his having no problem with the likes of Occupy and Anonymous appropriating the symbol from V For Vendetta, just as, as he states, DC Comics appropriated V For Vendetta from him. The usual Alan Moore line, but with an interviewer pressing him on certain points, which looks like it will make[...]

Greg Farrell is a cartoonist who works at the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan, the staff of whom are currently in conflict with management over a new

They won't all be as good as this, but I'm glad I read this one first. "If you feel no guilt spending your grownup money on fictional adventures of men in costumes beating the tar out of each other while absurdly diatribing on whatever sociopolitical issues the scripter was otherwise reading up on while taking nightclasses[...]

It was a rather fun scene from the most recent issue of Amazing Spider-Man. And that's saying something, considering how Dan Slott and Stefano Caselli

Mark Millar has very kindly posted a series of statistics regarding the orders of Supercrooks. In an industry where we usually have to make estimates

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool It's a good year to be a comics fan in Chicago In addition to C2E2, Wizard World, a plethora of comic shops and numerous events throughout the city; this year sees the Windy City gain its own indie comics showcase: CAKE: The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. The expo has posted the[...]

From Fringe this week; Fauxlivia: You thought this might have something to do with the vigilante case the PD has been working? Agent Lee 1: Maybe Batman's

  Where did you take Easter service this morning? Wherever you celebrated the day, it probably wasn't in as cool a fashion as the Church Of The Rock

Proof, if more proof were needed. While the front page of the website is a "construction" page, a little URL farming reveals more about what Rick is

Hmm, what an interesting name for an author… Starfall City is a young adult superhero novel that's the antithesis of the overproduced superheroes-in-the-real-world, and firmly set in the pulp fiction world that comics originally sprang from with futuristic sc-fi, aliens, magic, kung-fu, cyberpunk, dragons, et al It's the moment from Superfolks when Peter Pan turns up…[...]

The Walking Dead #1 sells for up to $8000 in 9.9 CGC condition. But what about the original art for the comic? Image published a few thousand of that

Take a random Avengers Vs X-Men image. Put your Apple device over it with the Marvel AR App. Play around with what happens. I wonder what other images out

Bleeding Cool has been running a number of articles on ShiftyLook, the company set up by NAMCO Bandai to turn some of their older games into comic books with decent name talent, and then relaunch the games on the back of them. At the PAX East games convention in Boston, ShiftyLook have announced a new webcomics[...]

The Dynamite/Dynamic Forces response to the Edgar Rice Burroughs suit against them over the publication of Joh Carter and Tarzan comics has thrown up some interesting points. Bear in mind that I am not a lawyer and and my musings may make as much sense as those from a fish in a hat But here are[...]

Bleeding Cool rather ragged on a recent Marvel Comics title commissioned to explain banking to students for being, well, awful In comparison however, this comic written by Marc Sumerak and drawn by Marcio Takara to promote awareness of the effects of alcohol to kids, commissioned by Elks National Youth Program, both succeeds as a comic[...]

Millar is also currently potentially looking for a name artist who can draw eight or more comics a year for a new ongoing series… On the Bleeding Cool forums, in response to an ECCC interview with Tony Harris, a number of readers wanted to know why Tony was creating new work for Image when he[...]

Over at Broken Frontier, David Hine seems to have done a rather good job at burning his bridges. A familiar smaller press name from the nineties, David Hine relaunched his comics career at Marvel, working on a numbr of titles including X-Men and Daredevil He also write Azrael until Flashpoint and the New 52 18 months[...]