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Why Blair Butler And Kevin Mellon's Heart Reminds Me Of Watchmen
No pressure. Heart #1 is published by Image Comics in November Here is a four page preview. It's the beginning that does it The cover to Heart #1 by Blair Butler and Kevin Mellon is the first panel of the story The second panel happens a second after it The open hand closes. It's a technique I'm[...]
Our Love Is Real Moves To Image Comics
Bleeding Cool was very happy to help raise the profile of Our Love Is Real just before publication. So, it's not exactly parental pride, but possible the
Gay Comics Publisher Declares Victory Over Apple
Northwest Press, a specialist in publising LGBT comics, has announced that Apple have approved a number of their titles without any issues, including one graphic novel featuring explicit gay sex scenes in its iBooks store, This is quite a jump from from last year when the whiff of a gay kiss or a bare bottom was[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 15th August 2011
Is Brent Anderson drawing Action Comics #2? 3 Kick Ass 2 To Give Us One Of Those Unforgettable Images 4 Marvel Trade Paperbacks About To Go Out Of Print 5 Red Lantern Shower Scene 6 Forbidden Planet In Manchester Attacked By Rioters 7 Spider-Man XXX The Comic Book 8 Two Rejected Jim Lee Action Comics Covers 9 Booster Gold And The Return[...]
Winners Of The Pose-Like-Wonder-Woman Contest
Two weeks ago, we ran an image based on an original by Coelasquid, that had been updated and improved by denizens of 4chan/co, showing a variety of superheroes posing in the manner of Wonder Woman on the David Finch cover to Justice League #1 from DC Comics It became the most popular post of last[...]
Not My Monthly Curse by Phill Hall
I'll remember it to my dying day because I can't believe I didn't glass him and walk out." For the last six months, Bleeding Cool has been running a weekly column by Phill Hall in which he serialises his life in comics We've just finished his time as a comics retailer and were moving[...]
Monday Runaround – Google, Gender And Grant
The fools. All Of These Things That Have Made Us — The Comics Reporter "We have a hospital We have a surgeon When we have an ambulance, you'll go."… What he said this time, right to my face, didn't settle in for about 30 seconds I remember laughing at least once, a memory-laugh that bubbles up[...]
That Jim Lee Batman eBay Forgery
This is not a Batman sketch by Jim Lee on eBay. I mean it should be obvious but already it's getting bids close to $200 with eleven hours to go. But how
Sunday Trending Topics: Swiped
Rich has run a lot of Swipe File posts at BC, and a few of them have resulted in quite a bit of controversy.  And the farther we get into the internet
Batgirl And The Legion Of Sadistic Disability Fetishists by Eric Glover
Eric Glover writes for Bleeding Cool; Thinking over three reactions to an article on the Barbara Gordon controversy About a month ago, I wrote an op-ed on DC Comics' decision to super-glue the severed spinal cord of a paralyzed character and have her skipping on two legs again – "Give Batgirl The Chair" Long story [...]
Swipe File: ROD Vs Brian Bolland, Mike Deodato And Friends…
When I bumped into Brian Bolland at the opening of the new Gosh Comics in London, we reminisced about the Erro swiping of his work, and how Bolland was actually able to visit the work in question in France and then confront Erro. Well, Brian, how are your sea legs? The French artist known as ROD has[...]