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Xavier Lancel of SCARCE magazine, writes for Bleeding Cool; The Angouleme Festival is so big that have to remember that if you are indeed bringing many talented people at your booth, there is so many booths, so many different areas in the festival, that you're gonna have to publicize the thing no matter what, if you[...]

The fools. DC's new logo: A fresh flag for company's revolution | | Hero Complex – movies, comics, fanboy fare – latimes.com The logo was designed by Landor & Associates, whose client list includes FedEx, Volkswagen, Old Spice, Juicy Couture and, believe it or not, the U.S Department of Homeland Security.  Nicolas Aparicio,  the executive director at[...]

 But quality across the board on these has generally gotten better from everybody, and I suspect it will continue to do so, because there's also this:  I'm a dedicated print consumer, but wresting with one of the 800 to 1000+ pagers as you're trying to relax on the couch can't help but leave you reaching[...]

Bleeding Cool reader Kris Shaw is a little ticked about the state of DC Comics Omnibus titles when compared to Marvel Omnibus equivalent And how sewn binding makes a big big difference in gutter disappearance and books laying flat So he decided to record the difference for YouTube And then told me about it. Now if[...]

The week after next, Marvel's new Earth Season One original graphic novels begin publication. But rather than being on sale on Wednesday as you might expect, one comics retailer tells me that they will be able to sell them from Tuesday, the day before, as and when they receive them. That's because Tuesday is the on-sale date[...]

Being stuck in Blighty, does give me a slight disadvantage when going to comic conventions in America. And this time it seems that there are more

I remember going to Orbital Comics in London when it first opened ten years ago I was working in Soho for the ad agency Radioville, and this new comic shop had opened on Old Compton Street, and was suddenly my closest comic shop And fickle customer that I am, that meant I stopped going to[...]

It cannot be too firmly stressed that Guy Fawkes was a religious terrorist who tried to blow up the Houses Of Parliament. Just saying. Anyway, the Polish

Each year at Angouleme, l’Association des Critiques de Bande-Dessinée selects their own Critics Prize for the comic creator most deserving, in a rather

"It might be awkward for two white people to talk about this, but they're written by two white people!" Grace Randolph and Alan Kistler sit down at Midtown Comics in New York to talk about Ultimate Spider-Man and Batwing, for their new Between The Pages video blog, as part of Think About The Ink. "It might[...]

Bleeding Cool posted a little snippet of this back in August But today, DC Comics went all official By announcing that this September, they will publish an original graphic novel by Walt Simonson set in the DC Universe All the DC Universe. "The cover for THE JUDAS COIN was designed and drawn with inspiration provided in part[...]

Arthur Du Pins' second volume of Zombillenium from Dupuis, published in August, has won the Jeunesse Award, for younger readers, at the world's largest

The French documentary Sex In The Comix presented by Molly Crapabble will preview tonight at 8pm at Angoulême, the largest comic convention in the world,

It looks like it's back up. Deadpool editor Jordan D White's recording of Daniel Way's lyrics from Deadpool #49.1 by way of a few popular modern tunes and

Last year, there was a kind of proto-Extreme relaunch with Mark Poulton and Owen Gieni recreating the Rob Liefeld character Avengelyne for Image Comics. Well, inspired by Jim Zubavich's free online serialised experiment with Makeshift Miracle, Owen Gieni worked out a deal with Rob Liefeld to serialize issues of Avengelyne daily via Keenspot, while pointing towards[...]

It's getting closer and closer to Free Comic Book Day … in that there's only three and a bit months to go.  But it's a lot closer to the point when retailers hand in their orders to take part in the annual promotion that sees stores give out hundreds of free comics to their customers[...]

BeDamnedDelight: Graphic.Ly introduces a Rosetta Stone for digital comics publishign. Basically, if you are an author of visual stories, such as children's books, graphic novels, art books, picture books, shoot even cookbooks or yearbooks, you can now come to Graphicly, upload it, and then have it automagically converted to work on (almost) every single channel out[...]

So this petition recently went up on iPetitions. Rob Granito, a hard working artist and family man, made some unwitting mistakes doing tribute art and was buried in the comics tabloid media Rob admits to his mistakes, and wants a chances to make amends and return to the industry he loves so much: the world of[...]

Next month sees the London Super Comic Convention, a new comic con focusing solely on the comics medium, being held at the London ExCel Centre, the same venue that hosts the twice-yearly MCM London Expo. Of course, what the London Super Comic Convention has, is Stan Lee, making his first signing appearance in the UK for decades[...]

Now Bleeding Cool loves a good typo, in fact we're past masters in creating our own  new and innovative ones. Is This The Return Of Raven To The DC Comics New 52? Toy News International ran these scans of images of DC toys and statues for 2012 But did they miss the headline story? Or is it[...]

Well someone liked the State Of The Union address. From Ron English's Popoganda.

A number of comics have run retailer variant covers, exclusive to one retailer who orders a whole bunch It can be a fun promotional exercise, it raises publicity for the retailer, it guarantees hundreds more sales for the publisher, it can be a real win win It can however be on the expensive side. But when[...]

One is the abandoned logo of an abandoned digotal comics line from DC The other is the brand spanking new logo from Oni Press.   Note the sharp libe of the speech balloon, the face focus, the website… if only Zuda had included a pun in the logo as well…? Too much of a reach? In Swipe File[...]

And how Ariel Olivetti may have been a good example, locked into a two year excluisve deal with Marvel but suddenly appearing on the rejigged Men Of War, now GI Combat, for DC Comics. Well, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. I understand that a number of DC Comics have come to an[...]

FLCL (pronounced Fooly Cooly) is an anime from Japan shown on Adult Swim, but more commonly available on streaming sites and DVD/Blu Ray, about a kid with

Of course there was also another Raven-possibility printed in the backs of DC Comics recently, with the cape and the red jewels… …is this a case of left hand and right hand dissonance? Here are the other images from Toy News International. Toy News International ran these scans of images of DC toys and statues for 2012[...]

Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a different point of view and get instant feedback from real customers on New Comics Day, as we literally corner them and and ask questions about comic books and related topics Unscripted, reality CC. This week we ask our customers what they think about the[...]

In the last twenty four hours I've had fifty-eight people e-mail to tell me about the typo in the new issue of Teen Titans. Now Bleeding Cool loves a good

He co-owned Brave New World in California. He was Director of Sales and Marketing at Top Cow. Now he's the new Valiant Sales Manager. And he still has an

Awwwww... Jim Lee finished the most recent issue of Justice League #5 just before his new child was born, and while his wife Carla was rather heavily