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You might need to clicky for biggy. But if you really want a better look at this design by Ilias Kyriazis, it is currently both on display at Midtown Comics in New York…   Can you make the above out? Hard I know You might need to clicky for biggy. But if you really want a better look[...]

When reporting early rumours about Before Watchmen, almost every name I was given turned out to be true - Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello, JMS, Amanda

Man At The Crossroads, Paul Gravett led the speeches, followed by Lee Harris, Bryan's first comics publisher in the seventies. Hosted at Orbital Comics in London, the shop is also displaying original art from the book in the gallery, as can also be seen in the video below Apologies for early crackling. I've just come back[...]

The past year has been a good one for The Avengers and all of the team's members — particularly when it comes to vintage comics sales The lastest record to fall is for the first appearance of Thor in Journey Into Mystery #83  A CGC 9.4 copy of the comic was sold by Pedigree Comics[...]

Due to popular request, it is being reprinted on the front page today. Whoever is involved, whenever it is scheduled, DC Comics do seem to be continuing with the production of a series of Watchmen prequel comics by a variety of talented writers and artists But should they? Here are a few thoughts worth considering. The Contract Alan[...]

I'm writing a very specific character." Out compares him to a Project Runway contestant and calls him "DC Comics' first major gay teen superhero" along with writer Scott Lobdell's oft-repeated line "If the comic book industry doesn't create another white, straight male superhero, that will be OK" The aryticle also recalls Scott Lobdell's contribution to the[...]

Marvel are introducing discounts to those who order large numbers of the central comics It is likely, but not definite, that DC will run some programme to encourage retailers to order sizeable amounts too, though likely more around returnability But faced with the new of eight Before Watchmen titles to order, what are they thinking? I'm[...]

Spider-Man: Ends Of The Earth is the storyline that writer Dan Slott says he's been building up to, with Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six launching

You pick up the Action Comics #6 Combo edition You open the bag, you wait the appropriate amount of time, you flip to the DC Download Code page and… …damn. Hey, is this an ultra rare variant? You pick up the Action Comics #6 Combo edition You open the bag, you wait the appropriate amount of time,[...]

  Chris Weston's work has often been compared to that of Brian Bolland. The detail, the hard blacks, the feathering, the desire to portray as much as

Yesterday, from Dark Horse Comics, came the eighth issue of Dark Horse Presents Now over the years, that series has seen the birth of the likes of Concrete, The Mask, Hellboy, Sin City, Next Men and so much more It has an unquestionable pedigree But what makes today's issue quite so special? Well, first it has a BPRD[...]

The cover to issue 8 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine caused considerable stir. And we still don't exactly know how that's going to play out,

Brennan Neil's Stick City, ScotWatch: BBC Scotland finds the local women of comics. [Tanya] Roberts said: "Many of my fellow comic artist/writers are switching to online publicity now, that is to say generating interest through webcomics without even printing hard copies anymore. "It's very difficult to get a creator project published in these hard times. "No-one really feels confident[...]

 Overall, it was also an interesting day in comics history, with major birthdays for two of our most important modern comics institutions: 30th anniversary of Diamond Comics Distributors, 20th anniversary of Image Comics  On with the show… Most-Read Comic Stories Today: BEFORE WATCHMEN Announced Today With Azzarello/Bermejo's Rorschach, JMS/Adam Hughes' Dr Manhattan And Len Wein/Jae Lee's Ozymandias[...]

  It could happen...

As Sharp Electronics celebrates its hundredth year, what better way for the Japanese company to document its rise from a manufacturer of mechanical

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Myth Making is a difficult book to review here at the start of 2012– and not just because it weighs fifteen pounds and takes up almost as much space as a Torah scroll when open* The past year has seen DC Comics change[...]

Making Moloch a double patsy — first for Metropolis and then again for Ozymandias — could lend another layer of poignancy to the Moloch-Comedian scene in the comic." This was of course, a different time, during the creation of the comic itself, and well before Alan Moore realised that the contract he'd signed with DC Comics[...]

It's Diamond Comics' 30th Anniversary… but it's also Image Comics' 20th Anniversary Here's a photo from February 1st 1992. Erik Larsen, Hank Kanalz, Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. Okay, exactly what portraits of themselves are Rob, Todd and Jim hiding in the attic?   It's Diamond Comics' 30th Anniversary… but it's also[...]

It is Diamond Comic Distributors' 30th Anniversary. This is Steve Geppi's message to retailers, publishgers and manufacturers. Yes, that is what Steve

Glass House Graphics Brazil manager Rodrigo Monteiro flew to Fortaleza, Brazil on Friday, January 27th 2012 to be part of  a Creating Comics Event with artist/painter/designer Al Rio at SANA (a pop culture festival) and to coordinate artwork for Al's various projects.  Rod also conducted what turned out to be Al Rio's final[...]

Scott Snyder writes both Batman and Swamp Thing for DC Comics, as part of the New 52 relaunch of the DC Universe. But in the past couple of weeks, it seems like he can only come up with one cliffhanger for the both of them. Okay, as the title and the visual says, there are spoilers ahead[...]

Leah Moore, co-writer of the medium-redefining webcomic The Thrill Electric - and also one of Alan Moore's daughters - had something to say about the

Quite a difference. Detective Comics #6 by Tony S Daniel Bad guy (or at least a guy trying to get by) called Snakeskin Which explains the events of Detective Comics #1 very nicely indeed Can't read my, can't read my, no, can't read my Joker face Say, any Batcosplayers performed that yet? Harley Quinn would rock[...]

Then this landed on me. A  full confirmation of the Watchmen prequel project from DC Comics we have previously referred to as Watchmen 2, Before Watchmen, with writing details, courtesy of the Wausau Daily Herald which I think may have slightly broken an embargo. And it's not the four prequel comics we'd previously reported, but seven[...]

It's enough to make you choke on your Cheerios. Yes, it's true, I've written four comics for Boom!, shipping in April, each parodying a different Marvel movie Except, because it's me, I've ended up parodying world religion, reality TV, terrorism and our attitude towards it, and even made a baseball joke. THE AVENGEFULS is drawn by Joshua[...]

Watchmen 2? The Death Of Superman Again? Wonder Woman to get a new thong? I have no idea what DC Comics is announcing tomorrow But whatever it it, it is meant to have big media interest, and something that will attract national news coverage.  Which should appear on the DC Source blog at some point. So sleep well, America[...]

When a month has five Wednesdays, with all the New 52 titles slotted into the first four weeks, it leaves kids books, Vertigo titles and the lower selling non-52 comics, which don't quite have the punch to the pocket that the New 52 comics do So retailers lose out. Well, they have found a partial solution[...]

We saw a few unlettered pages from Avengers Vs X-Men #0 earlier today, by Brian Bendis and Jason Aaron, drawn by Frank Cho. Well, here are some more.

E-Sports tournaments are held in just about every country in Asia. So while spending time by the Mekong River overlooking Laos, from a small town whose airport was originally built by the US military during the Vietnam War as the primary staging area from which they launched planes to bomb Vietnam, I suddenly remembered it was[...]