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"A Long Story Not Short" – 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. I was going to write 'The Top Ten Black Superheroes Created By Black People" as a bookend to my article "The Top Ten[...]
Si Spurrier's Numbercruncher And The Art Of The Feint
Earlier this year, Titan Comics publisher the series Numbercruncher, by Si Spurrier and PJ Holden It sunk It didn't help that it was a really, really bad format to publish the comic in Serialised did not do it any favours As a complete story, it relies on you remembering clearly previous scenes as new scenes[...]
Core Cosplay At Hallowe'en
Last weekend, The Core in Cedar Falla, Iowa, held a costume competition for the Hallowe'en Comic Fest free comic giveaway day. They weren't alone, many
Thursday Runaround – My Little Pony Beats Sandman
THE GIGANTIC GRAPHIC NOVEL THAT WAS REALLY GOOD The Bleeding Cool Fan Award-nominated graphic novel The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins has found itself on a slightly more prestigious award list, The Waterstones Book The The Year, where it is up against Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes' Levels Of Life. It already beat out[...]
Pop Culture Hounding Dean Haspiel And… The Fox!
by Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/2783/0/PCHPodcastEpisode62.mp3] After last week's intimate discussion with Ulises Farinas & Erick Freitas (which you can listen to here) and my recent film podcast with Before Midnight's Graham Reynolds (which you can listen to here) I suit up to chat with writer/artist Dean Haspiel (American Splendor, The Alcoholic, Billy Dogma) about his work on The[...]
How Many Black Science Teasers Will You See This Week?
Black Science is Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera and Dean White's new book launching from Image Comics The first issue on sale at the end of the month And the Final Order Cut Off date is in five days time, November the 4th What does that mean? It means that up until that point, Image Comics[...]
Unity #1 Gets 68,500 Orders… Initially
So when it sells out, there will be no more made. The company has also made Unity #2 and #3 100% returnable for retailers who match or exceed 50% of their initial orders for Unity #1. We see "sell outs" all the time in comics but rarely do we get to see the actually numbers. According to Valiant's[...]