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Al Rio's Last Interview, With Rodrigo Monteiro
Glass House Graphics Brazil manager Rodrigo Monteiro flew to Fortaleza, Brazil on Friday, January 27th 2012 to be part of  a Creating Comics Event with artist/painter/designer Al Rio at SANA (a pop culture festival) and to coordinate artwork for Al's various projects.  Rod also conducted what turned out to be Al Rio's final[...]
Swipe File – Swamp Thing 6 And Batman 5 SPOILERS
Scott Snyder writes both Batman and Swamp Thing for DC Comics, as part of the New 52 relaunch of the DC Universe. But in the past couple of weeks, it seems like he can only come up with one cliffhanger for the both of them. Okay, as the title and the visual says, there are spoilers ahead[...]
Leah Moore On Before Watchmen
Leah Moore, co-writer of the medium-redefining webcomic The Thrill Electric - and also one of Alan Moore's daughters - had something to say about the
Eight Thoughts About Seven Of Today's Comics
Quite a difference. Detective Comics #6 by Tony S Daniel Bad guy (or at least a guy trying to get by) called Snakeskin Which explains the events of Detective Comics #1 very nicely indeed Can't read my, can't read my, no, can't read my Joker face Say, any Batcosplayers performed that yet? Harley Quinn would rock[...]
Avengefuls Assembled
It's enough to make you choke on your Cheerios. Yes, it's true, I've written four comics for Boom!, shipping in April, each parodying a different Marvel movie Except, because it's me, I've ended up parodying world religion, reality TV, terrorism and our attitude towards it, and even made a baseball joke. THE AVENGEFULS is drawn by Joshua[...]
DC Comics To Announce Something Big Tomorrow
Watchmen 2? The Death Of Superman Again? Wonder Woman to get a new thong? I have no idea what DC Comics is announcing tomorrow But whatever it it, it is meant to have big media interest, and something that will attract national news coverage.  Which should appear on the DC Source blog at some point. So sleep well, America[...]
Justice League #6 Slips Into Fifth Week In February
When a month has five Wednesdays, with all the New 52 titles slotted into the first four weeks, it leaves kids books, Vertigo titles and the lower selling non-52 comics, which don't quite have the punch to the pocket that the New 52 comics do So retailers lose out. Well, they have found a partial solution[...]
Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Comics Buyer
E-Sports tournaments are held in just about every country in Asia. So while spending time by the Mekong River overlooking Laos, from a small town whose airport was originally built by the US military during the Vietnam War as the primary staging area from which they launched planes to bomb Vietnam, I suddenly remembered it was[...]
Comic Book Men Advertises With The Walking Dead In Comic Stores
Just work in a comic store. They don't sell comics They sell dreams. Selling comics, it's in their jeans. Seriously, didn't you always want to work in a comic store when you were a kid? They're not just salesmen They're supermen. The Walking Cred In the kingdom of the geek, the comic shop clerk is king. Want to unlock the secrets of[...]
Remembering Al Rio by David Campiti
  Al began his career in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as an artist in the early '90s,  illustrating books for a local English School. After working as animation director at this same company, Al became an animator in Brazil for Disney, working on such properties as the syndicated Aladdin animated series. Upon joining the comics-centric international art[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 31st January 2012
Will You Sign The Petition For Rob Granito To Come Back To Comics? 10 Everything's Coming Up Celestial At Marvel 11 Justice League #5 – An Arms Race  12 Loosening The Exclusive Chains At DC Comics 13 Al Rio Passes 14 George Perez And The Death Of Lana Lang That Wasn't 15 New Sherlock Viral? Or Something Geekier? 16 A New DC[...]
Grace Randolph's Stacktastic – The Last Airbender 2, Aang And Katara Kiss!
Grace Randolph brings Bleeding Cool another taste of tomorrow's comic books as part of her Think About The Ink video blogs – as well as the implications of Dark Horse Comics' preview of the Avatar: The Last Airbender… and a certain kiss…   Grace Randolph brings Bleeding Cool another taste of tomorrow's comic books as part[...]