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Orbital Comics in London is currently showing off a display of pop culture cardboard cut-out constructs by one Ryan Hall Including a Doctor Who Nativity scene Each piece is available to buy for £25 in the shop It's well worth a visit… I'll show off the He Man, Superhero and Star Wars displays tomorrow…   [...]

  Oh look they both have Hughs at the front. Jackman Vs Bonneville, who would win? Wolverine has the claws, but the Lord has the class envy. In Swipe File

We've got a new look for Bleeding Cool, it's only approipriate we should have a new face too. In Stacktastic, Grace gives you the low down on what comics are coming out this week that you should consider picking up, as well as a special segment on Christmas comics!   Welcome one and all to Grace Randolph's[...]

Bleeding Cool has talked about the issue of Watchmen and V For Vendetta rights never reverting to their creators, as originally agreed they would, because DC Comics has kept the books in print for twenty-five years, something unimagebale at the time.. Of course since then a number of creators have signed that same – or similar[...]

    CoverWatch: DC Vertigo shows off a bunch of covers for upcoming comics, including the above wraparound cover by Adam Hughes for Fairest #1.   NookWatch: With a new software update for the Nook Color, Barnes And Noble have announced the "largest digital collection of Marvel's graphic novels available through a third party – including Halo Uprising and[...]

But regardless, we're about to find out, aren't we? Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Five Ways The Comics Industry Could Dramatically Change In 2012 Aside From Digital. Last week, Mark Millar was saying that he and Bryan Hitch had been chatting very indiscriminately about a big change that was coming in 2012 for comics aside from digital – but[...]

I understand that a plan has been made at Warner Bros to merge their show space at the 2012 San Diego Comic Con with that of DC Comics Which would see DC Comics setting up shop within Warner Bros' booth over on the movie side of the show floor It's not finalised and I understand[...]

If a bit lumpy when put in a portfolio. And while he's worked on many comics since, including wonderful recent painted work oHotwire, his Animal Man work still stands out as a shining beacon of comics work, especially compared to the work it stood against then. And now, in March, he"s back on Animal Man, creating the[...]

USA Today reports a new future Archie storyline that sees him not married to Betty or Veronica, but Valerie from Josie And The Pussycats. I don't think

SPOILERS: The Secret Behind The Collectors In Action Comics #4 10 Those Mysterious Defenders #1 Phrases Hint At Marvel's Future 11 Richard Pace Responds To Frank Miller 12 Scarlet Spider #1 – A Taster's Menu 13 Paul Cornell Off Stormwatch After #6 14 Whatever Happened To Stephen Platt – Right Here. 15 3D Trailer – Emma Frost, Zatanna, Catwoman And[...]

Last week, Mark Millar was saying that he and Bryan Hitch had been chatting very indiscriminately about a big change that was coming in 2012 for comics aside from digital – but that he couldn't say any more. "the industry, as we all know it, about to go through some massive changes unlike anything we've seen[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool, Grace! You may know her as Marvel's Watcher or the host of Beyond The Trailer, but from tomorrow Grace will be hosting her new

With 148,000 beating San Diego's capped 130,000 attendees. It may pale against the likes of Japan's Comiket and France's Angouleme, but it's a lot closer for the average American than either of those shows. It's also worth bearing in mind that FIQ just covers comics – not games, not Hollywood studios, not TV, not Twilight Just five[...]

In 1969, ABC News's 20/20 investigative program exposed a scam from habitual conman, government informant and convicted felon, John Ellsworth and his International Children's Appeal, linked to the United Nations and coinciding with the International Year of The Child. Instead, it was a way for Ellsworth to launder drugs and gun money, and a way to[...]

SacrificeWatch: The first issue of the Sacrifice comic book by Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose, with a total print run of 1,100 and independently distributed, that goes on sale this week, is sold out from the publisher BurntOfferingWatch: The 1 in 200 Joe Jusko Valen The Outcast cover that Boom! burnt over 450 of the 500[...]

Where JMS seemed to claim that his Spider-Man comics sold better than current Spider-Man comics, Steve Wacker went to bat for his team, using a bat made out of web fluid, that kind of tools that Spider-Man used to make. The initial Facebook thread has been deleted, but another has been started, in which JMS and[...]

Vertigo has announced a new eight issue mini-series by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard (HP Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness) called The New

I've seen the plans and if it comes off the way they're planning it to come off, it will be a great thing." TibetWatch: The New York Rubin Museum is launching an exhibition devoted to comics and Tibet. The exhibition also contains some biographical comics; one particular one is about a Tibetan saint called Milarepa[...]

Cowabunga, dude.

Just sayin' Steve Wacker, current editor of the Spider-Man comics, replied; An excellent post, JMS Out of context, out of date and full of out-of-the-blue mean. Everyone on ASM currently respects your years on the book (and as editor I've said so many times in interviews and in the letter column), but seriously this is about as creepy[...]

I think that's game set and match, isn't it? MCM London Expo, Kapow, Thought Bubble, the Bristol/Birmingham conventions, all can boast a number of star comic book guests coming to the UK. But the newcomer in February, the London Super Comic Convention, organised by a bunch of comic dealers and a doctor in Essex has probably[...]

Bleeding Cool already mentioned the horror comic book that Joe Harris is creating with Ethan Van Sciver at DC Comics, Bastardized. Well, we also know about his upcoming comic from Image with Martin Morazzo With the title Great Pacific its an environmental disaster adventure comic And there are visuals and designs… Again, that's about it. [...]

Clownface and Panda from Body Bags from Jason Pearson – a father and underage daughter killing team, 1996, Dark Horse Comics. Big Daddy and Hit Girl from Kick Ass by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr – a father and underage daughter killing team, 2008, Marvel Comics. In Swipe File we present two or more images that[...]

SwipeWatch: The Washington Post asks why cartoonist plagiarists are treated differently to journalist plagiarists. Pulitzer-winning political animator Mark Fiore thinks that some cartoons — rather than "naked plagiarism" — are cases tinted with shades of gray. "I think plagiarism is overly tolerated," Fiore tells Comic Riffs, "but it is also harder to prove than in other forms[...]

"Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in."  Comics are definitely like that  It won't let you go. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Richard Pace Responds To Frank Miller  If this response to Frank Miller's comments on Occupy Wall Street four days ago (was that all it was?) is a little slower, then that's because[...]

the From a recent issue of X-Men Legacy #256 by Mike Carey and Steve Kurth, courtesy of Reddit. And the voting system on Reddit. In Swipe File we present

Bastardized is a new horror series by Joe Harris and Ethan Van Sciver, the upcoming Fury Of Firestorm creative team, to be published by DC Comics next year. That's basically all I know Bastardized Horror series Joe Harris Ethan Van Sciver DC Comics. What do you want, blood? You'll probably get it… DC declined to comment[...]

So 27 year old Canadian artist, Ricky Kruger, just started painting with oils and sharpies. He's already sold Rorschach painting (below) to Lon Molnar,

Let's take a look at the numbers. DC COMICS DC put out a lot more books in October than in September, and these additional titles seem to have brought some female creators with them In October 2011, DC Comics released 81 new comic books with 655 credited creators, 582 men and 73 women Here are the charts: DC[...]

Gene Ha will be drawing Justice League #7 for March, according to the DC Source blog, filling in for Jim Lee, who will return for issue 9. The identoity