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I have had two major comics publishers just contact me about this, their mouths agape. Marvel have just run a teaser for a new comic, The Mystery Men, with the tagline "Who Are The… Mystery Men" Featuring public domain Golden Age characters from the forties, it appears to be drawn by Patrick Zircher. Except that's a very[...]

The Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris is currently showing an exhibition devoted to the work of Moebius, as well as his other pseudonym Gir and real identity Jean Giraud. Devoted to his comics work, the display is… well Rather impressive It includes his notepads, paintings, unpublished pieces and an animated film The theme of[...]

MiddleEastWatch: Dez Skinn and Kef Sutherland are back from a trip to the United Arab Emirates for the Comics and Literacy. I was actually out there for a meetings-packed week, laying the foundations for a major event about which more to follow. ShopWatch: Borders keeps on delaying those payments…MarriageWatch: Peter Milligan on the John Constantine/Epiphany marriage; First off,[...]

Last year, Bleeding Cool reported the rumour that Georg Brewer of DC Direct, would no longer be with the company, as it underwent a dramatic change in

Spend three hour working at San Diego Comic Con, and get in for the whole day, free. You could be filling bags with programmes, you could engage your

You know it's Valentine's Day coming, right? What better gift for a male nerd to his recently-acquired girlfriend to help share his hobby with her than a

But there's plenty more to chew on… Radical Publishing spends huge amounts of money creating very highly rendered comic books, paying its creators more than Marvel and DC do for the comics they create, putting up a massive stand at San Diego and hosting spectacular parties Yet its presence on the comics shelf is minor and[...]

On the basis that it is unlikely George Perez will be drawing two Flashpoint mini-series, it looks as if Peter Milligan with be writing Secret Seven,

DC Comics Failed To Stop Fantastic Four #587 Early Release 6 Batporn 7 Joe Prado's Blackest Night Character Designs Almost A Hundred Of Them. 8 Tronporn 9 Marvel To Follow DC With $2.99 20 Page Price Point 10 Simpsonporn 11 Abin Sur, The Green Lantern Of Flashpoint 12 MarvelLeaks 2: Teh Secret Identity Of Venom 13 As Marvel Reveals Herc, We Ask What[...]

Now the next hurdle is the studio's struggle to make Superman feel relevant to the young 'uns and not something their granddads were into. The current comics are still struggling to make Superman feel relevant but everyone seem to have forgotten that during the 1960s, when DC and Marvel comics sold in the millions, Superman[...]

Ex-Marvel Editor-In-Chief Tom DeFalco takes Archie to the land that time may have forgotten but clearly hair straighteners had not. Drawn by Fernando

The first one was seeing how many different comics they have in France Someone who has never seen the bande désinees section in a Fnac bookshop does not have an idea of the size of the difference between US market (and Brazilian market as well, since I came from there) and[...]

He and his wife were only able to stay for the first day and than they had to head back home to Texas.  He was telling me that he was doing good with sales of his book at the Con.  I know his table always had someone in front of it. 2)  Kenny Vavarro was at[...]

Runs out tonight. BluewaterWatch: Nuno Nobre is interviewed by his local press over his Angelina Jolie biographical book for Bluewater. "Um contrato de trabalho à comissão, com direito a receber direitos de autor sobre a venda do livro durante os dois primeiros meses em que estiver no mercado." Which means he only gets paid with royalties based on[...]

Adding to the sweetness is the wide diversity of the comics you see… from super-hero fare, manga, indie publishers, mini comics, as well as the big euro-publishers you might think of. My day three began by finally visiting the museum and exposition hall, for the first , time ever No slights intended to U.S[...]

FAUVE D'OR - PRIX DU MEILLEUR ALBUM 2011 Cinq Mille Kilomètres Par Seconde by Manuel Fior (Italy) FAUVE FNAC SNCF – PRIX DU PUBLIC Le Bleu Est Une Couleur

It's already used by French digital comics publisher AveComics Productions to create their digital comics But announced at Macworld Expo, publisher Aquafadasis about to release it wide. Comic Composer will allow publishers to create digital comics on the Mac for the iPhone and iPad, web browsers and other smart phones, and save them in a variety[...]

Dynamic Forces are selling signed copies of Fantastic Four #587 by Stan Lee for $299.99. Of course, retailers and Diamond will take 60% of that, and Stan

From Entertainment Earth comes this line of Marvel and DC plush toys that stare into you, exposing your very soul... and give you a bit of a hug too. You

Welcome to the MAC launch of their new Wonder Woman makeup range in a pop up store on Spring Street in Soho Soho, New York. Here are a few super models

(okay a lot of years ago, I'm an old fart) I used to write comic books.  Nothing fancy, just for a lot of the independent companies, at that time there were a lot more independent companies around.  I've been published by Fantagraphics, Kitchen Sink, Malibu, Innovation and at the end I even went the self[...]

Artist Matt Smith remembers him. BurnWatch: Outsiders, from Dan DiDio and Keith Giffen, gets burned… Olympian: "Insolent pig! You want to know who and what I am? I am Achilles, The Olympian!…and I am your doom!" Geo-Force: "Now…get OFF me! I am tired of hearing you speak!" Olympian: "Your words have put me off balance, so let me return[...]

Earlier this month, Bleeding Cool reported that ex-Dupuis editor Jean Van Hamme would be at Angoulême this year, the first time for twenty years since he

Image Comics gained a reputation last year for publishing a number of series that caught the comic book market by surprise Morning Glories, Skullkickers, 27, the question has always been, what's next? Well, Infinite Vacation #1 Already tipped by Bleeding Cool, it looks like retailers did not learn the lessons from Nick's last comic, Morning Glories[...]

We linked to this in this morning's Runaround... but looking around, not too many people seems to have mentioned it. So, let's give it a bit of

Comics Alliance recently ran/possibly-even-created (still not sure on that) a car insurance infographic feature that purported to show the original Transformers from the eighties cartoon alongside the vehicles they transformed into. But even a rudimentary knowledge of Transformers (and that's what I have) would have clued you in from the very beginning that the Optimus Prime[...]

Joe Prado designed many Black Lantern versions of DC Universe characters for the Blackest Night mega-crossover. And now he's selling them on his website,

Now I know what Hollywood actors must feel like when they see a foreign dubbed film using a very strange voice to portray their role. In this case, it's a

Apparently Marvel staff are in the process of sending a book to press, and flipping through Diamond Comics Distributor's Previews Catalog while they wait for the material to upload About DC's War of the Green Lanterns listing in Previews, Brevoort says: Official snark-warning! I'm about to say something ridiculous and relatively mean-sounding about the[...]

The Western hemisphere's largest comics convention had always seemed to be the Anti-San Diego, where instead of berber carpeting, overpriced pretzels and hoards of fanboys, you had a charming French village full of wine and hot chicks who liked Joan Sfar. I never would have taken my Angoulême fantasy outside of headspace if it hadn't[...]