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Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool; The DC UNIVERSE ONLINE beta ended on Wednesday evening with a heavily promoted (to the gaming press and MMO

A group led by Title Wave Books, Bosco's Comics, Fireside Books in Palmer and the Alaska Library Association sued to get the censorship law overturned They're joined by the Alaska ACLU and a group of national free speech advocates, including the Media Coalition, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and American Booksellers Foundation for Free[...]

Pennsylvania comic shop Comics And More is closing in 9 days time, due to construction at the King Of Prussia shopping mall where they are based, set to last over a year. In a letter to customers, the store has stated that the King Of Prussia mall was unable to fight a suitable alternative location and[...]

Little Bleeder Alexa writes; Over on Tumblr, many of the female-oriented comics blogs have been holding tournaments for the best DC and Marvel superheroines and their memorable moments. Ladies Making Comics has decided to get in on the game and is throwing a tournament for favorite female creators Right now, the tourney is in its[...]

It also owns the Waterstones chain of bookstores, that has survived in a market despire the departure of Borders UK. Now HMV is to close sixty stores nationally out of four hundred stores, after reporting a Christmas slump in sales of 14% year on year and admitting it is having trouble meeting the terms of a[...]

Todd Klein presents some of his lettering work from the upcoming League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969 as well as some of the working practices

Real Life Super Hero Phoenix Jones is the subject of another TV news report after preventing car theft in Seattle, tackling a robber as he attempted to

NewsWatch: The Vancouver Sun seems to think that Stan Lee is an illustrator who draws his comics. "Items hopes the National Hockey League isn't paying a fortune to legendary writer/illustrator Stan Lee of Marvel Comics fame for those Guardian superhero characters he's worked up for each team They all appear[...]

Stan Lee accepted his star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame yesterday, including an address by Todd McFarlane, as the event was declared Stan Lee Day. "You

While the American comics market may be heading towards stagnation, the French comics market is holding its own An estimated 1% fall year on year was made up of a heavy slump at the beginning of the year with a surge through the rest of it. But they've been busy bees, with 5165 products in the[...]

It's Garth Ennis' new book. It stars a lady. Who likes dressing in something black and skin tight. And who seems to own a number of guns. I wonder if she

French comics publisher Ego Comme X has started a new series of on-demand books The first is a reissue of LES SŒURS ZABÎME, by Aristophane They plan a number of titles in this range which can only be ordered through the piublisher's website or bought at Angoulême at the end of the month. Print on demand[...]

In French. Which is quite the oddity. The magazine will contain 228 pages of comics, 32 of them in colour, on sale in February for €4.95 , with an initial print run of 38,000. The magazine will contain 7 series and, as in Shonen Jump, reader response will determine which continue and which get canned. Initial creators include Midori[...]

However as part of the letters presented to court, DC Comics stated that they wouldn't publish the four issue series in trade And that policy stood until certain recent changes in the company. And now the book is back, in a deluxe hardcover version later in the year One of Frank Quitely's earlier works for DC[...]

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A short documentary about the venerated British comic artist Shaky Kane, including Simon Bisley and a dangerous Punk Rock Nightclub and Jack Kirby's stand

Until that day, read on. Archie Comics app closes in on 2 million downloads – Archie Comics News Just before the end of the year, we were notified by our friends at iVerse that the Archie Comics app was at a little over 1.7 million downloads, inching ever so close to 2 million. Getting a Leg[...]

Bloody hell. Before I started working at home, I was a relatively svelt 85 kilos (187 pounds). Overweight, sure, but not too much. As of last night I an

And Dark Horse will be launching a series of birthday party promotions in selected comic stores. Oxford Comics And Games in Atlanta, Georgia from 4 to 7pm, with Georges Jeanty in attendance, Multnomah County Library in Portland Oregon from 5:30 to 7:45 pm with editors Scott Allie and Sierra Hahn, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8[...]

Details are sparse at the moment, but Ken Akamatsu of free manga download site J-Comi has announced that his company is developing a comic viewer in

A series of tweets: Amanda Palmer: hey guess what we did last night (and this time it's legal) Neil Gaiman: I am the happiest and luckiest man in the

27 #2 by Charles Soule and Renzo Podesta ships this week, so it might be a good excuse to remind people of the puzzle within the comic – and the second print of #1 ships with #2. Pieces are scattered through the comics, with 27 guitar chords hidden on very specific pages throughout the comic Here[...]

Put it this way. If you're spending all your timein a watchtower on the Moon, you're going to want a drink. But how to you solve superhero squabbles over

As part of DC's Hold The Line At $2.99, the company has removed two pages from the standard twenty-two page comics story, on both DC and Vertigo titles. But what would replace them? Advertising? In-house or otherwise? Turns out it's letters pages, with the return of regular pages of communication between the readers and publisher in every[...]

Welcome to the very first Lying In The Gutters of the new year. Bleeding Cool wishes a prosperous and successful year to all of its readers. Although,

Marvel's teaser image, assembled over the Christmas/New Year break is starting to resemble a certain familiar character... albeit one now with spider legs.

Here are model pages from the upcoming Batman Live stage show from The Telegraph. Note the Jim Lee artwork used throughout...

WebWatch: Todd Allen's webcomic Division And Rush leaves the Chicago Tribune websites to set out on its own, talking about profane comments in an early episode that ware traced to a Tribune IP address… 1963Watch: Steve Bissette has pulled the plug on an Image revival of his 1963 characters, N-Man, Hypernaut, The Fury and Sky Solo… After[...]

Now sells for $14 Action Comics #890-894 $15 Now sells for $12 Green Lantern #29-35 $10 Now sells for $5 Sea Bear And Grizzly Shark $4.99 – Now sells for $6 Death of Dracula $3.99 – Now sells for 25c Fame: Robert Pattison $3.99 – Now sells for $3 Superman Batman Annual #4 $3.99 – Now sells for $7 M Rex Preview,[...]

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