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Image Comics Wins Publisher Of The Year At Diamond Awards
With Image beating back the traditional winners of the Publisher Of The Year (over 4% marketshare) Marvel and DC. Image also grabbed Best New Comic Book Series for East of West and Best Free Comic Book Day book for The Walking Dead Special. DC took six awards over all with Top Dollar Comic of the Year for[...]
Former LucasFilm's Art Director, Gary Winnick, Gives You Bad Dreams In April
Out from Red 5 Comics in April… From the co-creator of Lucasfilm's Maniac Mansion comes a lavishly illustrated twisted tale of whimsy, bouncing off classic fairy tale tradition When Mother Night goes missing, everyone slowly loses their minds from a lack of sleep An odd band of dreamworld misfits must band together to find her. And if[...]
Thaniel, A New Comic, With Two Issues In April
In April, Ossm Comics will publish the first two issues of Thaniel through comic book stores, a four issue mini-series, with the remaining issues in May and June, just in time for San Diego Comic Con. Here's what's coming. Throughout the universe there is one constant; everything dies Growing up on the streets, losing everyone closest to[...]
Friday Runaround – Batman, Spider-Man And Mountain Dew Cheetos
The comics industry's two biggest names on front and back. THE FUNKY GIBBON Buy this sketch and imagine who it might have been drawn for in happier times…  AUTISTIC SUPERMAN IN NEW YORK Dover residence Dave Kot recently released what he claims is the first comic to feature an autistic superhero. Since then, he said, local middle schools have[...]
Code Black – Michael Davis, From The Edge
Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. In 1956 the two-year old Comics Code Authority (CCA) tried its best to stop EC Comics from publishing a particularly offensive comic book[...]
JM DeMatteis Is Aflutter About New Project with Mike Ploog in 2015
The Nigeria-based writer has reviewed comics, novels, movies and music for a variety of platforms, including Komikwerks.com, where he worked as Special Features Editor He is currently the Creative Editor of Daily Trust, the most influential newspaper in his country You can follow him on Twitter @KareemReal By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu J.M DeMatteis is a comic[...]
Comic Shop Owners' Last Chance To Order For Hellboy Day
In a me-too promotion along the lines of Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press' Crossed Day, Dark Horse is reserving a whole day to celebrate Hellboy's twentieth anniversary on March 22nd. But today's the day the retailers set their Final Order Cut-Off figures for all the comics and things they'll have on sale for then. Here are the[...]
How MailOrderComics.Com Went Down
So what happened with MailOrderComics.com that necessitated DCBS stepping in and taking on their unfulfilled orders How would that be possible anyway? Bleeding Cool investigations have unearthed that MailOrderComics.com over extended their credit with Diamond, in the region of a low six figure sum and basically last week, they didn't get the comics they'd ordered[...]
JM DeMatteis Is Working On 'Top Secret Animated Movie' And Reveals Origin of One Punch
The Nigeria-based writer has reviewed comics, novels, movies and music for a variety of platforms, including Komikwerks.com, where he worked as Special Features Editor He is currently the Creative Editor of Daily Trust, the most influential newspaper in his country You can follow him on Twitter @KareemReal By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu BleedingCool had a chat with[...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks – Time To Get Furious
And the week after, the launch of Jokers Daughter, Wolverine, Punisher and Ms Marvel. So… what are you buying? DARK HORSE COMICS CONAN PEOPLE O/T BLACK CIRCLE #4 $3.50 FURIOUS #1 $3.99 GANTZ TP VOL 30 (MR) $13.99 NEVER ENDING #3 (MR) $3.99 SERENITY LEAVES ON THE WIND #1 $3.50 SERENITY LEAVES ON THE WIND #1 VAR CVR $3.50 SLEDGEHAMMER 44 LIGHTNING WAR #3 $3.50 DC COMICS ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #9 $3.99 ALL STAR WESTERN[...]