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By Olly MacNamee Settling into the panel at last Saturday's first-time Comics Festival in Birmingham, I don't think I was expecting to witness the high levels of passion on parade that I did, but it certainly made for one of the more talked about panels of the day as Kat Nicholson (Silicon Hearts), Laura Howell (The[...]

By Jason Strangis It’s a dream job for any monster fan. For the past two years Chris Mowry has been the writer of the comic book series Godzilla: Rulers

On May 6th, The Witcher: Fox Children returns for its second issue and a rather overwhelmingly creepy cover by Joe Querio: Written by the excellent Paul

From IDW Publishing, The Powerpuff Girls Super Smash Up #4, written and illustrated by Derek Charm, throws us into a Monster Day in the city of

This month saw Oni Press’ release of two-time Eisner winner Zander Cannon’s fantastic new ongoing series entitled Kaijumax. For those of you who don’t

Here are fifty of them, across the USA, into Canada, over to the UK, France and Spain… ALABAMA Kingdom Comics 1425 Montgomery Highway ste 119 Vestavia Hills, Alabama ARIZONA Phoenix Public Library the night before… Gotham City Comics & Coffee Main St., Mesa, Arizona 85201 Celebrate Free Comic Book Day in Downtown Mesa on Main Street with over 20 participating businesses! With 50th[...]

Comic book retailer Mike Swenson of Juke Joint Comics in from Bismarck, North Dakota write to Bleeding Cool yesterday, As of this morning, our DC sales are down nearly 40% this month compared to last year And with Convergence #3 hitting the shelves today, I am still scrambling to sell 0, 1 and 2 along with[...]

Nominated for best continuing series of 2014 for this year's Eisners. Hawkeye, by Matt Fraction & David Aja (Marvel) Great, it is one of my favourite

The image to the left features in Gearhearts: Steam-Punk & Glamor Revue #1 page 11 from comics publisher Antarctic Press. The image on the right is from Legacy: Selected Paintings & Drawings by Frank Frazetta. Note the removal of signature along the way… no credit was given to Frazetta… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each[...]

These are people who, though working at libraries, are still working under the assumption that all comics are for children. HMS: Yes That's a fair summation AM: Which is clearly not the case, certainly over here I don't know about America—I haven't been to America for a long time But over here most people kind of[...]

It did not. But now the ex-publisher of Marvel Comics who helped save them from bankruptcy is back writing comic books for Double Take, the comic book spinoff of Take Two Interactive. And for July, there are two titles with his name on the writing credits Slab and Spring Based on the Night Of The Living Dead[...]

Entitled Amazing Fantastic Incredible – A Marvelous Memoir, this is how they describe it. In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee—comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes—shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan[...]

Ales Kot is the writer on Secret Avengers and Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier for Marvel, and Zero for Image Comics. Nathan Edmondson and Mitch Gerads are the creative team on The Punisher Mitch draws The Activity for Image Nathan writes for Image. Chris Kyle was a famed US sniper, who fought in the Iraq War, with 160[...]

The issue will contain the works of veteran Sonja writers Roy Thomas, Gail Simone, Luke Lieberman, and Eric Trautmann along with first-time Sonja writer Cullen Bunn and artists Dave Acosta and Rich Buckler.The stories will be 'retro-tinted' to capture the flavor of her classic comics era. Thomas reflects on the long legacy of the character, "It's been very gratifying to me[...]

Things have certainly moved forward since that scene written by Scott Lobdell in Alpha Flight #107. Mind you the hints have been there for some time. Some