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Means a ton. — Rufus Hound (@RufusHound) January 28, 2014   @j_razor101 @RufusHound Not every time, of course, but almost exclusively yes on this occasion. — Mark Millar (@mrmarkmillar) January 28, 2014     But whatever his views, right now, the politicians are listening… and maybe they'll buy his comics! Just did an interview with CBR about Starlight #1[...]

Comics Alliance eulogises Morrie Turner, the first black nationally syndicated cartoonist in the US. In the early 1960s, Turner began questioning why there were no minority characters in cartoons At the suggestion of Charles Schulz — whom he called his mentor — and comedian and social activist Dick Gregory, Turner went on to create Wee Pals[...]

It will be a weekend full of Manga. I will be there attending on 8-9 February,  but here is an photogallery of the last Japan Chibi Weekend to give you an idea of what lies ahead.  For further information you can visit their site here.  #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border:[...]

Monica's Gang is one of the most successful comics around, and certainly America's best selling comic. It just happens to mostly sell in South America. Brazil to be specific, around 400,000 an issue, though a recent "kiss" cover issue saw it sell half a million a couple of years ago An animated version airs on the Brazilian[...]

Bleeding Cool always likes to keep an eye of applications for trademarks in and around comics And here come a couple of interesting ones. Justice, Inc and Nick Carter – Killmaster. Justice Inc, was the name of the first story to feature pulp adventurer The Avenger, from 1939's The Avenger magazine, a millionaire made sick by the[...]

Bleeding Cool has been following Boom! Studios' original series Day Men with art by Brian Stelfreeze since before it launched. We broke the news that the

Jonathan Larsen is the writer on a comics project known as The Endling that appears on Thrillbent on Thursdays in chapter format Over the course of 20 chapters, Larsen and The Endling team have established an unusual and thought-provoking storyline which moves from a research project simulation about the future evolution and reproduction of the[...]

And they have chosen Englishman Alan Moore, the first time they have celebrated a comics writer over an artist or writer/artist. Concentrating on prints and original artwork of his comics, including Eddie Campbell, David Lloyd, Melinda Gebbie, Kevin O'Neill, Dave Gibbons and more, as well as scripts, research notes and cuttings, acquired and curated by Jean-Marie[...]

A classic opening Silver Surfer splash by John Buscema, courtesy of Mile High Comics. And Burne Hogarth's Tarzan, soon to be re-released. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the reader, to[...]

Recently, Sex Criminals tried to give us a musical number, with the lead singing Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls with everyone else, well, behaving as they

by Olly MacNamee Long time reader, first time writer here at Bleeding Cool. Having been a teacher for nearly two decades (gulp!) and a comic book fan for even longer, I have always looked for ways to get comics into the classroom but often it was linked to the curriculum and therefore, ultimately to assessment[...]

Going into the post-production stage of this was when I truly realized the depth of the loss of 3D comics pioneer Ray Zone and 3D comics creator Joe Kubert was for our business They were the only elder statesmen we could have called for guidance, and I wish they were still with us both to[...]

Dennis Barger, Co-Owner of Wonderworld Comics, Taylor, MI, writes, Let me start this letter out with a cliché…children are the future of this industry If you do not subscribe to this philosophy, then you might as well stop reading right now There is no other way to put this—our industry of print comic books is dying[...]

This was the week in which I made David Cameron snarl. Why, what have you been doing? Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week Powerpuff Girls Cover Causes A Modicum Of Uproar Some Spoiler-Filled Batman Vs Superman Plotline Rumors Nightwing, Suicide Squad, Superman Unchained, JLA, Stormwatch, Fantastic Four Reboot Casting Call Reveals A Potentially Very Different Origin Tale Hank Pym Rewrites The[...]

By Kevin Schmidt Generally, we think of superheroes as working in small teams, but writers Kyle Higgins and Alec Siegel with artist Rod Reis are looking