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Now that's a busy — and diverse — comics Friday  Start off with an emerging new print comics distribution model (and let me make mention of retail group New England Comic Retailer Alliance's role in the developing ComixTribe story, which I too find fascinating), add a big batch of Bendis X-Men in the middle, and[...]

When Letters Pages Go Anti-Gay

Comics Alliance has more on this one. Bedlam by Nick Spencer and Riley Rossmo. Planetoid by Ken Garing. We'll be talking lots more about all of these in the coming days, I'm sure. Thanks to Peter Svensson and Ryan King. Image has just released several more official images: Chin Music Mara Happy Crime and Terror Black Kiss 2 Bedlam Planetoid Jupiter's Children [...]

As suspected a few days ago, a new Phonogram series, called The Immaterial Girl, by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie And Matt Wilson has just been announced

More from Image Comics Expo when I wake up. From one side… And then the other More from Image Comics Expo when I wake up. From one side… And then the other More from Image Comics Expo when I wake up. From one side… And then the other More from Image Comics Expo when I wake up. [...]

Monday will be the last days that comic stores can sign up to be a participant in Free Comic Book Day 2012, by ordering at least 25 each of the Gold Level

In this parody of American political advertising to relaunch CLiNT Magazine as CLiNT 2.0 that you may have read about at Bleeding Cool last week, they seem to have made some basic errors. While they do attack both Marvel's $3.99 comics and DC's Before Watchmen, they also include the line "Mark Millar approves this message" which,[...]

Told you this was coming. ABC News talks to Jason Aaron and Brian Bendis about Avengers Vs X-Men. And we get a little bit of new art.... that you might

Tom Huxley watches TV and writes for Bleeding Cool; Stan Lee made his appearance on The One Show just now, as part of his UK trip to the London Super

Well, this looks like the first of them. After Avengers Vs X-Men, we know Brian Bendis is bringing to a close his writing and showrunning of the Avengers comics for Marvel But what next for their golden child? I've been told by a number of industry sources only one thing That he'll be taking over the X-Men[...]

It looks like Justice League is about to lose its streak of number one sales. Not only is Jim Lee away from the book for a few issues, but Avengers Vs

February 28th. That's the cut off date to sign up for a Member ID to attend the San Diego Comic Con, whether you are professional, press, exhibitor,

Expect lots of announcements tonight from Eric Stephenson's address to open Image Comics Expo. Sadly, I'll be in bed when that's happening Which means they've still got plenty of time to set up. Here's how the show is looking right now, from our Bleeding Cool man on the floor, Mat Nastos. Please people, just buy me stuff[...]

This is what a legally uncontested John Carter Of Mars comic book looks like, by Sam Humphries and Ramon Perez. Marvel make this very clear. "This new

I got in touch and the artist was suddenly contacted by the company, offering to write them a cheque there and then. Its not uncommon for a publisher to get in difficulty in this fashion – much of the comics market has been depressed, but costs of business have not decreased People who owe the publisher[...]

Bleeding Cool has been watching with fascination the emergence of a new market in direct-distributed comics with mainstream appeal Our Love Is Real and Sacrifice from Sam Humphries, Red Ten and Scam from ComixTribe, with strong salesmanship, promotion and developing a fanbase. ComicTribe has now doubled the amount of stores in the US and Canada carrying[...]

Stan Lee is in town. Old London Town that is. It's the Super London Comic Convention tomorrow at the ExCel Centre, and Stan is making his first convention

SpiderWatch: How many Spider-villains can hold Spider-Man up in interesting ways? Probably around six, I guess. ImageWatch: The Image Comics Expo begins today Here's what's going down – do let us know if you'll be there. RowlingWatch: JK Rowling has signed a deal for her first adult-audience novel And it's still not a comic C'mon, Diane, use[...]

Yesterday, we told you about comics from the Billy Wright pedigree selling for $3,433,342 at Heritage Auctions, today they were onto auctioning original art, among other things, and there's plenty of interesting results to discuss  Headlining the original art portion of the auction was the Bill Waterson Calvin and Hobbes 1989-90 Calendar Cover Watercolor art[...]

Steve Cook, designer of a number of logos seen at the top of your favourite comics, is also a photographer and photo manipulator He gave us a wonderful take on the classic Romita Mary Jane Watson pose, now he goes for a Romita Black Widow. It stars the Suicide Girl known as Manko in the role,[...]

If you can name their connection to the world of comics, you win the right to an even deeper feeling of superiority. So much for Page One. PAGE TWO: You can definitely see the Garth Ennis influence in this first issue But that's inevitable – when you take over someone else's characters, they speak in your head with[...]

Although we're not too sure about Lord Of The Jungle making it to the UK… PREVIEWS PUBLICATIONS PREVIEWS #282 MARCH 2012 DARK HORSE COMICS ANGEL & FAITH #7 $2.99 DRINKY CROW PARTY LIGHTS $14.99 EMPOWERED DELUXE ED HC VOL 01 $59.99 GANTZ TP VOL 21 $12.99 GATE 7 TP VOL 02 $10.99 KING CONAN PHOENIX ON THE SWORD #2 (OF 4) $3.50 THE IMMORTAL DEMON I/T BLOOD #3 $3.50 USAGI YOJIMBO #144 $3.50 DC COMICS BATMAN[...]

The story right now is Saga, the new Bryan K Vaughn and Fiona Staples comic from Image. The chart below shows the top twenty-five advance reorder comics from mid-February, measuring extra orders past the due order date, and reflect sudden increased interest in a title before it is released And right now it's all about Saga. There's[...]

Batman deals with a Missed Delivery note in a rather effective fashion...

As a professional fanboy — that's what I consider myself — I've gotten to do things others haven't." With 20/1000 vision, his sight is getting worse and while he can no longer read comic books, he can use speech web browsers to catch up on what's going on in comics through websites such as this one,[...]

  Joe Bennett is drawing the new Savage Hawkman arc, cowritten by Rob Liefeld and Mark Poulton. And here are his first sketches of how he plans to be

Mark Millar has set up a competition so that the the store that orders the most copies of Supercrooks #1 from Marvel will get him for a signing. He'll fly

In April, Boom are publishing four comics I've written… The Avengefuls drawn by Joshua Covey, Captain American Idol drawn by Chris Haley, Scienthorlogy by Mike Netzer and Iron Muslim drawn by Bryan Turner, all with covers by Mark Stafford Parodying the Marvel movies, they also take on aspects from Holy Terror to Anonymous Vs Scientology[...]

Rachel Hope Allison’s I'm Not A Plastic Bag, is a graphic novel by Rachel Hope-Allison from Archaia and JeffCorwinConnect Inc. Worldless, it's the story

Arcana Comics have announced they are buying up a large chunk of Bluewater's publishing library Basically, everything except the biography and most of the licenced titles, to be published in trade paperback form. So that means 10th Muse, Legend of Isis, Judo Girl, Styx and Stone, Deathsport Games, Orion the Hunter, Blackbeard Legacy, Paparazzi, Warlock, Leprechaun[...]