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Just work in a comic store. They don't sell comics They sell dreams. Selling comics, it's in their jeans. Seriously, didn't you always want to work in a comic store when you were a kid? They're not just salesmen They're supermen. The Walking Cred In the kingdom of the geek, the comic shop clerk is king. Want to unlock the secrets of[...]

  Al began his career in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as an artist in the early '90s,  illustrating books for a local English School. After working as animation director at this same company, Al became an animator in Brazil for Disney, working on such properties as the syndicated Aladdin animated series. Upon joining the comics-centric international art[...]

Nathan Edmonson took the opportunity of answering an AMA on Reddit a few days ago by editing it to announce a sequel to his Image-published

Will You Sign The Petition For Rob Granito To Come Back To Comics? 10 Everything's Coming Up Celestial At Marvel 11 Justice League #5 – An Arms Race  12 Loosening The Exclusive Chains At DC Comics 13 Al Rio Passes 14 George Perez And The Death Of Lana Lang That Wasn't 15 New Sherlock Viral? Or Something Geekier? 16 A New DC[...]

Grace Randolph brings Bleeding Cool another taste of tomorrow's comic books as part of her Think About The Ink video blogs – as well as the implications of Dark Horse Comics' preview of the Avatar: The Last Airbender… and a certain kiss…   Grace Randolph brings Bleeding Cool another taste of tomorrow's comic books as part[...]

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a piece in which Kris Shaw demonstrated issues with recnt DC Omnibus volumes. So someone asked Dan DiDio about it on

Abby Denson writes for Bleeding Cool. Hi, I'm Abby DENSON. This is my third year at Angouleme. So far, I'm making good on my vow to come every year, and

Mathew Quitney attended the New Orleans Wizard World Comic Con on Sunday for Bleeding Cool. And happened to have his camera on him. It wasn't the host of

Al Rio had worked across the comics industry, noth in Brazil and in the USA, including the likes of Grifter & The Mask, Alan Moore's Voodoo, Avengylene for Avatar World War Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man and New Mutants. The respected Brazilian journalist Sidney Gusman, after talking to those close to the family reports that is was apparently[...]

I've been here several times as a visitor, more than 10 years ago so I was so thrilled and honored when Scarce chose me as one of the artists featured in their booth this year. As the author and artist behind SAGA, CloseCallComics 's first webcomics, I had previously been to different Comics Conventions, in Paris[...]

Danger Academy is a comic book by the familiar team of Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood for Kickstart. It's been featured om Bleeding Cool a few times, just not

Here's a trailer to the sixth issue, published tomorrow by DC Comics. Static Shock has been one of the most… let's go with "controversial"… comic at DC right now, after John Rozum spoke out about his decision to leave the book And now, the book has been cancelled with issue 8 But it's not going[...]

I know that's meant to be Scarlet Witch's costume. But it does also look like she's just spent too much time in the sun. And is starting Avengers Vs X-Men

The MCM London Expo is now the home of the longstanding Eagle Awards (and yes, you can vote for Bleeding Cool there) But with Fables co-creator Mark

A DDOS attack from the Chinese because we ran a positive story about Taiwanese comics? Warner Bros exercising their mighty power by recruiting dolphins with laser sighted missiles taking down the Boiling Point seabound servers? Me pressing the off button with my elbow? Either way, we're mostly back Ish A lot of switches remain off, but[...]

Comics are juxtaposed, sequential art, right? Scott McCloud says so Which makes the Threadless series of comic artist T-shirts just as much a comic book as anything else Especially if you wear each shirt in the right order on subsequent days. And now Threadless have hired Chris Roberson to write an eight panel story over four[...]

Mike Pandel, better known as Tri Force Mike, is one of the more recognisable faces of Bleeding Cool, after his regular appearances in the A Comic Show

I once chatted with a senior executive at a comic book publisher, who despaired at some of the deals the sales people did. Specifically using comic book

DC Comics is starting to reveal what's inside its Free Comic Book Day offering this year. In a letter sent to retailers, they state that Geoff Johns will write a new story for the comic, with art from Jim Lee and others. The comic will also preview the "second wave" of the New 52, Batman Inc, Dial[...]

Le Cowabunga, dude. This is how a French comic book publisher promotes their new oversized Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle graphic novel. By delivering it in

This is the cover to Spawn #216, by Todd McFarlane. But not this Todd McFarlane. This is the Todd McFarlane back in the early nineties. Originally planned

Last Saturday, Bleeding Cool was to first to talk about the solicitation of Sam Humphries and Jerry Gaylor's Fanboys Vs Zombies, a comic about a zombie

 And what was this thing I heard about a group of comic exhibitors getting kicked out of Emeril's restaurant after a confrontation with an actor? Someone should send Rich an email about that one. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: A New DC Comic From Azzarello And Bermejo Attending the largest comic book convention in the world, Angoulême in France,[...]

For what could have been... courtesy of Richard Starkings. "Might have been is a dream, was is achievement, wishing you lots of was..."

Little Bleeder Patrick Stephens, reporting from the floor of Wizard World New Orleans this past weekend reports straight from the horse's mouth, George

A gallery of photographs taken in and around the 39th Angoulême Comic Art Festival, held this weekend in France. And a little taste shared with you,

The greatest concentration of people reading comics on the Nook is in Brookyln. Analysis welcome. Portland? No Seattle? No Manhattan? No San Diego? No The greatest concentration of people reading comics on the Nook is in Brookyln. Analysis welcome. Portland? No Seattle? No Manhattan? No San Diego? No The greatest concentration of people reading comics on the[...]

  Frank Cho has put his yet-to-be-released-and-frankly-rather-late Image Comics series on ice Guns & Dinos was to have been released late last year but… it wasn't He writes; Well, I saw this coming when my Marvel assignment and my non-comic project deadlines kicked into overdrive around Thanksgiving I'm postponing the release of "Guns & Dinos" until I[...]

But here are the full list of winners, as presented at Angoulême today, at the show's closing ceremony. (Pictured, French Minister of Culture and Communication Frederic Mitterand getting Art Spiegelman's attention.) The Prix Jeunesse, as previously reported for children's comics, went to Zombillénium Vol 2 by Arthur de Pins from Dupuis. Le Prix d'Angoulême de la BD scolaire,[...]

Attending the largest comic book convention in the world, Angoulême in France, Brian Azzarello told French website MDCU that he is working on a new book for DC comics with Lee Bermejo, who he collaborated with on the Joker and Lex Luthor original graphic novels. When asked if the lead character was a villain or a[...]