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Hack/Slash Meets Vampirella In New Series For Halloween
As a big fan of horror comics, I always was fascinated by how those stories are told in comics, how the mood is set up using light and shadows, the way you can play with the layout of a page Also, Vampirella was always one of my favorite characters, she's been here for a long[...]
Jorge Jimenez
They've released a new DC Comics Art Academy, a series of art tutorials recorded at Comic-Cons featuring many of the artists working for DC today In today's installment, Super Sons artist Jorge Jimenez discusses his art's manga influence and gives 2016 Comic-Con attendees an early look at one of the two characters he would soon[...]
Utu
Daniel Freedman, who is perhaps best known as a co-creator for Image Comics Undying Love and Burn the Orphanage, is running a Kickstarter campaign to help him make a film of another comic — but not one of his own Rather, he is looking to turn a short comic by Malachi Ward called UTU into[...]
Mike Ploog's Comics Career Began With A Werewolf, And Will Now End With One
"It had all of the gothic elements that I enjoy working on." A real bonus for Ploog was that Simon Bisley, whom Ploog long admired, would be painting the comics from Ploog's finished pen and ink work Bisley, who brought much fire to the project, states: "As a youth I was totally inspired by Ploog's brilliant art,[...]
Thane
With the reveal at Disney's D3 Expo at Anaheim of the Children of Thanos, aiding the Mad Titan in his assault on the heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Avengers: Infinity War, there's an interesting point to note. L-R: Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Thanos, Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf As I mentioned in the reveal article,[...]
Comic Store In Your Future – Marvel Vs. DC
Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. The Marvel vs DC debate has raged for many years The two companies fight along with their readership, along with people that don't read any of their titles often times the fighting is very bitter Almost like a Democrat vs Republican mentality. The Marvel vs[...]
Sneak Peek At 'The Wren', Starring A 12-Year-Old Superhero
He's just lucky he still has his adopted father, David, to keep him in check. As well as story changes affecting the future of the Buttonpress comics, over the years Browne has introduced new creators to his audience Mike Lynch worked as Artos's first writer, with Aaron Fever taking over the role from issue #3 Thimble[...]
Weapon X
The 3 minute animated video from writer Noah Sterling and Max Dweck with art by Tom Rogers breakdown the original storyline that appeared in Marvel Comics Presents in 1991 starting with issue #72 through #84 written/drawn by Barry Windsor Smith We've seen parts of this play out in the X-Men films and in other comic[...]
Highlights From The 'Life With Archie' Panel At Denver Comic Con
Ashleigh Jay writes: Denver Comic Con, held on June 30th–July 2nd, hosted four creators working for Archie Comics A Life With Archie panel hosted by Hannah Means-Shannon featured creators Fernando Ruiz, Dan Parent, Erica Henderson, and Ian Flynn Fernando Ruiz and Dan Parent have both written and penciled multiple Archie comics Erica Henderson currently does the pencils[...]
Yoga Hosers
It was previously a Sundance Film Festival exclusive, but is now going to be available in shops on September 6th. The official description reads: "Smodcomics proudly presents the official prequel to Kevin Smith's Yoga Hosers, starring Johnny Depp, Harley Quinn Smith, and Lily-Rose Depp! Since the remarkably charismatic duo of Colleen C and Colleen M[...]
Justice League of America
No, JLA #10 is important because it tells a story that reflects the times we live in, and has an important message about it. And before someone complains about comics on a soapbox, JLA is far from that JLA is fun, enjoyable superhero comics fare, it just happens to have a message of hope, connectedness and[...]
Fantagraphics' 15 Comics And Books Debuting At San Diego Comic-Con 2017
You may need to take a very large bag to Booth #1721 to pick up what Fantagraphics describe as  "some of the only actual comics you'll find at Comic-Con." Bit of a straw man argument there, Fantagraphics Or is it a cosplayer dressed as a straw man? Otherworld Barbara Vol 2 by Moto Hagio Nanami had sworn to never[...]
Stranger Things Season 2 To Sponsor Halloween ComicFest 2017
Ever year, 'round about Halloween, Diamond Comics Distributors runs Halloween ComicFest — an event in direct market comic stores similar to Free Comic Book Day, but themed to the season, and with opportunities for people to buy mini-comics en masse to give away to Trick-or-Treaters instead of sweets and candy. I have always seen this as[...]
Ch-Ch-Changes: Anthony Piper Replaced On 'Secret Empire: Brave New World'
We have a couple of changes to upcoming Marvel Comics credits The first is for Black Panther & The Crew #5 as it nears its too-soon end And as often happens when series close in on their final issue, the creative teams chop around as the publisher has better and brighter things for their artistic[...]
Red Hood And The Outlaws #12 Sells Out. Is A Second Printing On The Way?
A poignant and heroic story, it has also resonated quite a degree with  readers, and is DC Comics' highest rated title this week on Comic Book Round Up, an average score of 9.1 from 111 reviews. Normally this would be enough to see a second printing whipped up But DC Comics prefer to use those on titles[...]
'Legion' Creator Noah Hawley Discusses Emmy Awards Snub
The Emmy nominations came out yesterday, and there's some really great stuff on there (RuPaul's Drag Race got eight Emmy nominations! I'm sorry, I freakin' love that show), but there was one very noticeable absence: there was not a single nomination for FX's critically acclaimed X-Men adaptation Legion. Based on the character of David Haller (AKA Legion)[...]
Red Rising
Today we have a writer's commentary from Rik Hoskin, who is co-writing Red Rising: Sons of Ares #3 with author Pierce Brown. Cover by Toby Cypress, interiors by Eli Powell. Page 1: Comics aren't films or books, which means we can do things in different ways For Sons of Ares I started by proposing the different colors (or[...]
Defenders
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Defenders #3 is the next part in our little story of the Netflix Marvel heroes adventures in the Marvel Comics Universe This comic could have come across as a crass cash cow tie in, but instead, it is very quickly becoming a book I eagerly anticipate each week its out and an example of[...]