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Here's the headlines, based on DC Comics solicitation information for new monthly comics for April (minus the reprint, licensed, creator-owned and Vertigo titles).Thanks to some bargain books such as Action Comics #900, and the lack of $3.99 22 page books, DC comics are now 13.9 cents a page, 0ver half a cent per[...]

And they have picked their nominated comic books amongst that. As usual, GLAAD have eschewed anything that's not in the front of Previews or USA Today, valuing a prominent public face over the quality of work, but it's a worthy list nevertheless. Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Scott Allie, Brad Meltzer, Joss Whedon (Dark Horse[...]

The final issue of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight came out today. But Buffy Season Nine is due to have a new look. As Georges Jeanty moves on to DC work, so it's time for Buffy to take a new artist in return. Bleeding Cool understand that Rebekah Isaacs, recently on the DC/Wildstorm book DV8 but also[...]

The other day, Bleeding Cool ran the unofficial story that DC was to rename a large number of titles to reflect the new/alternate reality/timeline as seen

The other day, I ran an article on the Discovery Channel upcoming piece on the late Marvel editor Mark Gruenwald. And his wish that his cremated ashes to

Here's the numbercrunching headlines, based on Marvel Comics solicitation information for March, for their Marvel Universe and Ultimate titles. Looks like we've reached a kind of plateau for Marvel's page/price points/item count Back to a four week month, as opposed to March's five weeks, we're still at 14.5 cents a page, with one more title than[...]

Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo is being targeted by the French tax officials for being an "illustrator" not an "author" and thus not eligible to tax

When Virgin Comics approached me about starting my own line of books, I told them I had no idea, but my son might So, Weston and I brainstormed Voodoo Child There were a lot of stories that deserve to be told from there, so we ventured into it. RossWatch: DC Comics have, in the past, been[...]

SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983 focusing on American comics, available through subcriptions (7€ per issue, 25€ for 4 issues, shipped worldwide). Xavier Lancel is the current editor-in-chief and he will be providing Bleeding Cool with a look at[...]

It's not often that an episode of The Boys goes by without some kind of horrific physical mutilation or sexual abuse. It's even more unexpected that an

He now has a gallery exhibition at Orbital Comics in London and I urge you to make it if you can He really is rather wonderful Enjoy a few hastily snapped images of the show… I first published Mark Stafford's work back in 1997 Since then his career has[...]

So you're a digital comics distributor How do you get to distribute Marvel comics? Well, there are rules This is a major brand, one of the biggest in comics You need to commit. 1) First, you get what content you're given, you don't get to ask for specific comics Even if your rival has them You[...]

Looks like the Marvel Tsunami next week has got a little competition. Here's a preview of Archie #617 by Stephen Oswald, Dan Parent, Bill Galvan, Al

The classic stereotype is of the bullied schoolboy turning to such comics to inspire him to acts of revenge, if only in their mind "I'll show him", the boy thinks, "little does he know I am a mutant/alien/playboy billionaire, and one day, he'll know and then he'll be sorry" So Superior makes that moment reality[...]

I have in my hands the final copy of Buffy Season Eight, issue 40, courtesy of Orbital Comics This is how the season ends, not with a bang (that was issue 34) but with a whimper And a whine And a moan And a groan You know that oft-promised comic book lie "this story will[...]