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Not everyone's mother threw their comics out when they were at summer camp No, at least one of them just stuffed them in the attic. Which is how George Toman of La Grange, Illinois was able to come across Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man when clearing out said attic, before [...]

How are those prices holding up though as we wind down the third month of the DCnU? Ann Nocenti On Green Arrow, Typhoid Mary, and Being a Super-Villain Two weeks ago, we talked about Occupy Wall Street with Ann Nocenti, longtime comic writer and editor who had taken a long hiatus from comics but is returning in[...]

1 subscription titles, that get republished all across Europe and South America on newsstands. He wrote one of the Golden Grahams Justice League comics with a 3.5 million print run. He writes stacks of Marvel custom comics sold with toys, and for commercial promotions that have million-string print runs, such as for recent Taco Bell promotions. As a[...]

Archie Comics Gay Wedding Cover 6 The Butt Shot That Was Heard Around The World 7 Has Flashpoint Become Fiction In The DCU? 8 Frank Cho's Still Myserious Marvel Project 9 The Lost Superman Story Literally. 10 Where In The World Is Coast City? 11 Swipe File: Justice League Dark 12 Marvel Spoils Fantastic Four #600 In National News. 13 Pics From Pron[...]

Here are five paragraphs to entice you from the much longer article. The Future Of The League: Oh yeah, I mean the League out of all my comics work, it's the only piece of comics work that I'm still continuing with and where it seems like it is such a good basic idea that can be put[...]

The same amount will get you a ten page script analysis by Kurtis Wiebe (Green Wake, The Intrepids). Pony up an extra twenty and Kelly Sue DeConnick will give you a 45 minute Skype chat about the comics industry and your potential place in it… or possibly the weather, it's up to you. And then $150 will[...]

But rather than getting him a pair of socks, another tie or the rights to a Jamaican manga series that he can rescript, he's asking people to donate money to the Hero Initiative, which looks after comic book creators less able to successfully sue Marvel Comics for $10 million. Stan is using the charity website ShiftMyGift.com[...]

During which he confesses as to how writing the likes of the current Birds Of Prey comic has changed the way he approached his prose work. "It's funny, but before writing comics, I was more of the Elmore Leonard school of writing, very spare on description," he says "I focused more [...]

If Frank Cho and Dean Haspiel can win Emmys, then 2000AD artist Steve Roberts can win a BAFTA (British Academy Of Film And Television Arts) . Known for

They'll also be offering a 25% discount on everything. Marvel drops 30% off all subscriptions to the Marvel Digital Comics Universe and are selling one hundred Ultimate Spider-Man comics for 99 cents each. Viper Comics are giving 70% off comics with the codeword VIPER70 Threadless still have all those comic creator T-shirts available for $10… Robert Kirkman's Skybound is[...]

NookVsFireWatch: Which is better for reading comics? Nook or Fire? "Unlike the Fire, the Nook Tablet can pinch to zoom in those spots of artwork that require closer inspection or pieces of text that are just too small to read with the page at full-size However, the Fire's panel-by-panel reading method is really[...]

We keep seeing glimpses of the potential of this concept. First there was Coelasquid vs Finch on that Justice League #1 cover, then there was BC's photo

Thanks to one Little Bleeder who bought eight boxes of Golden Grahams to get the set, here are the covers and inside pages of the Justice League comics inside ceral boxes… that have had print runs of three and a half million, rather than the 5.3 million quoted in the Park Record. Each is 24 pages[...]

The DC Universe is a mix of fictional and real places. You have Metropolis and Gotham, you also have New York. And various cartographers have tried to

(Stuart Immonen on Computers and Art | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources) Thanks to Bleeding Cool I've found the photographer, so I'm going to write him to clarify this My sincere apologies to the photographer, and to anyone who can feel cheated by the use of an image as[...]

Initially given away free by DC Comics, it is now sold by Warner Brothers for $10 a pop. Lloyd has been quite vocal in his delight of the appropriation of the image But now, in today's Observer newspaper, Alan Moore speaks out, talking to Tom Lamont. "I suppose when I was writing V for Vendetta I would in[...]

Why weren't they putting comics in cereal boxes when I was a kid?  Fawcett and DC did it in the golden age, DC's doing it again now I'm sure it was done plenty of times in-between, but somehow I managed to miss them all — so far. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: The Justice League Comic With Over[...]

He thought it might have been announced at this years's New York Comic Con. It wasn't. What is Frank Cho currently drawing for Marvel? And why do

Stephan Burn writes for Bleeding Cool; Irrespective of whatever differences they may have, Grant Morrison and Alan Moore, what they do have in common is that they are both British luminaries of comics with a keen interest in esoterica and magic More than that, they both pursue theories of a meta-fictional cosmology that has threads running[...]

Matt Busch, creator of the Indiana Jones World Maps intended to benefit disabled veteran charities, has given us the latest on his attempts to retrieve them from disgraced ex-comics convention organiser Rick Olney. He writes; I can't remember what was last spilled, but about 2 months ago, I had finally connected with the appropriate folks at[...]

Justice League #1 was the sales highlight of the New DCU with copies sold getting closer and closer to that half million spot. But what if there was a

It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. But at least there's good deals on comics and related swag: Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Comic Book Creator Threadless Shirts For $10 A Pop Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and[...]

Erica Friedman writes for Bleeding Cool; I'm staring at my pile of to-watch and to-read anime and manga and I can't but help notice that there are a lot

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 feature footage from our Occupy[...]

I am inspired by aspects of real life in comics When I received the scripts I thought: "This is so cool." The story pulled me in immediately All the characters have a unique narrative voice and the violence was intense This is a great book! It is everything a good werewolf movie must[...]

For all of its love of The Phantom, Spider-Man and Donald Duck spinoffs, Sweden has never had its own, its very own superhero. It may possibly be the only

Fill your boots… Here's the bumf; Manga Studio Debut 4.0 is your all-in-one solution for stunning, ready-to-publish manga and comics Invigorate your artwork using color, express motion using speed lines, apply dimension with screen tones and add dialog through built-in word balloons Manga Studio helps you create professional manga and comics from start[...]

Mark Stafford is one of my favourite comic book artists. Somewhere between Robert Crumb and Evan Dorkin, he has a reputation for being able to work in any

Every now and then, you're reminded just how old David Hine (Azrael, Darkness, The Spirit) actually is. So our thanks to Conflict Gypsy for scanning in

It's Black Friday time! So which store and/or website will you be lining up outside? Mondo has its first DC Comics print, painted by JC Richard Fortress of Solitude (above) will cost $50 and will be available… at some point. Crush Comics of Castro Valley, California is having a sale No idea what, yet. Chapel Hill Comics of[...]