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DC Comics has shown how their new logo will be used on current books and current branding Looks like the edge of the D will be pushed hard against the spine of a comic, so the "peel" comes right off the edge of the comic. The press release reads "DC Entertainment, a Warner Bros Entertainment company[...]

Today, Friday, Monday and Tuesday, Bleeding Cool will be running a free copy of Dynamite's Kirby Genesis series ahead of the release of the fifth issue on

Jerry Iger was a cartoonist who worked for and with Will Eisner. His grand-nephew, Robert Iger, is now CEO of Disney, and the man who persuaded Marvel to

Welcome to the new DC Comics logo… that you saw first at Bleeding Cool, obviously Revealed at Fast Company who ran an interview with Dan DiDio and Jim Lee earlier, this is the real deal And they come in a variety of colours, and designs, including a Watchmen yellow-with-blood-splatter variety, that, presumably, will be on[...]

Irony, thy name is Archie Comics. Bleeding Cool has been following the issues regarding Nancy Silberkeit, co-CEO of Archie Comics, and her conflict with co-CEO Jonathan Goldwater, in a manner that puts Alex De Campi Vs James Hodgkins/Jimmy Broxton to shame. Jonathan Goldwater is suing to remove Silberkleit as director and co-CEO of the publisher, stating "Unless[...]

What with Marvel announcing their Avengers Versus X-Men covers willy nilly, I have been taking the mickey out of them a little, playing with what seems to

I'm going to be honest with you, I don't get Voltron. We didn't get it as a kids cartoon here when I was growing up, it's not a part of my pop culture

As is exactly who owns what, and if there is any future for the project – though the latter looks bleaker. Jimmy Broxton, as James Hodgkins was a successful inker with plenty of credits across the industry, and running a British comics convention He reinvented himself  as Jimmy, a penciller/inker, working on The Unwritten, Knight &[...]

"Graphic violence and sex, that's what you'll find in the pages of DC Comics today." That's how the Fox 5 News in Washington DC report began, taking on Catwoman, Red Hood and Detective Comics But see if you can find the disconnect here. "Today's superheroes would make Archie and Veronica blush" – Sherry Ly, Fox reporter. "They more[...]

More on this later today. FranceWatch: Taiwan heads to the world's largest comic convention, Angouleme, as a featured comic creating nation. A delegation of 20 Taiwanese cartoonists will depart next week for the 2012 Festival International de la Bande Dessinee d'Angouleme in France, where Taiwan comics will be a featured attraction, according to the Government Information Office[...]

The Storm and Namor dialogue is possibly the very best in superhero comics right now And we have a new Savage Land, an area of the country isolated and taken forward in evolutionary time to create a whole new world to fight in. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: How Sherlock Did It  There are spoilers here, for the final[...]

Out next week, at comic shops supplied by Diamond Comic Distributors… followed by a preliminary list of what's out from Premier publishers in two weeks! Dark Horse ANGEL & FAITH #6 AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 01 PROMISE PART 1 BPRD HELL ON EARTH RUSSIA #5 CARDCAPTOR SAKURA DARK HORSE OMNIBUS ED TP VOL 03 CREEPY ARCHIVES HC VOL 12 CREEPY COMICS[...]

Massive french publisher Gallimard are in the process of buying French group Falmmarion, which currently belongs to an Italian company. Now, Flammarion

With a first issue cover doing its best impersonation of Action Comics #1, starting from April with a new series from IDW written by Roger Langridge, and drawn by Bruce Ozella. Langridge's skill with The Muppets was to make the stories as good as you remember them – not as good as they were, the originals[...]

"I don't know why... but I find myself attracted to you..." Iron Man and Magneto. One, a man of science, the other a mutant touched by magic. Both have

Neil Gaiman and a group of several other artists and creators have just released the following open letter to Washington regarding SOPA: We, the

And now for a look at some Dynamite comics coming out in April Bionic Goat and Navy Of Darkness will be along any day now. Actually I quite like the sound of both of them. UPDATE: Aside from Bionic Woman, there are no other Bionic titles planned by Dynamite Or, indeed, any Navy Of Darkness[...]

Marvel is launching the first issue of Avengers Vs X-Men on April the 3rd at 8pm, the day before the comic will go on sale in general. Stores

Thanks to the good folk at 4Chan/co who decided, on a whim, that Rob Liefeld should work on more books at the New 52. And considered what they might look

The Storm and Namor dialogue is possibly the very best in superhero comics right now And we have a new Savage Land, an area of the country isolated and taken forward in evolutionary time to create a whole new world to fight in. But there's one scene… You see, as comic readers, we know what's coming[...]

Washington DC TV Station Fox 5 is running a news report tonight that focusses on the evil that comics do They've been running the report below since the weekend, and it looks to be typical Fox fare. With one expert calling comics "fictionalised Playboy", the trailer for this Fox 5 report on how modern day comics[...]

Aaron from A Comic Shop, Orlando on his own this week talking through today's comics –  Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern Corps, X-Force, Morning Glories, Caligula, all out today… how William Christensen of Avatar models his publisher role on Caligula, and why Jim Lee is pro life Only Aaron can do this… only Aaron. Top Books BATMAN[...]

The resigned sigh of a hundred thousand fanboys who liked the washing powder logo, and the appreciative hum of the Warner beancounters now that they no longer have to pay an annual sum to pay to DC Shoes after that trademark lawsuit went badly. HistoryWatch: Would you have what it takes to become a Disney historian? SOPAWatch:[...]

Thanks to Inspire. Cheer via DC Women Kicking Ass, from a Russian cheerleading competiton.

FrenchDelight: Panini is launching their first line of digital comics for the iPad in French on January 25th, to coincide with the world's largest comic convention, Angoulême They're kicking off with Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord's run on Conan as well as Marvel creator owned comics, Kick-Ass, Nemesis and Scarlet, and will add new titles[...]

From just one panel in Stormwatch #5. We know that Stormwatch is the future of the Demon Knights book – Merlin and Adam One appear to be the same fellow, and we can see the box that holds the Holy Grail here, as well as medieval weaponry (could Excalibur be there?) It's all a bit League[...]

Brett Ewins, one of 2000AD's most respected Judge Dredd and Bad Company artists was arrested this weekend. The Ealing Gazette reports; "Police were called

"What are you reading?" "The Hulk.... Vs Wolverine" We've mentioned the appearance of Damon Lindelhof's Ultimate Wolverine And Hulk in the ABC series Once

We've been happy to run A Comic Shop's adverts, approved and 75% paid for by the DC Comics co-op advertising programme  – that go a little further then most ads of their type Especially those mostly paid for by Warner Brothers. This time we have Cyborg rechristened "Robama", and pushing a patriotic message that you can trade[...]

This is the cover to The New Avengers #24, an Avengers Vs X-Men tie in. Is it me... or are Cyclops and Captain America going in for a kiss? Clearly