Comics Archives

Ch-Ch-Changes – Snow To Bizarro
Bizarro #4 was solicited with art by Gustave Duarte but had an added Darwyn Cooke page! Look! Constantine: The Hellblazer #4 was solicited with art by Vanesa Del Rey but was joined by Chris Visions. Injustice: Gods Among Us – Year Four #10 was solicited with art by Mike S Miller but was actually by Xermanico & Bruno Redondo. Secret Six #6 was solicited with art[...]
Dan DiDio And Jim Lee On What Makes A DC Essential
In this DC All-Access clip, they talk about the comic books that inspired them, how storylines make the jump to movies and TV, and Vertigo's role in comics' legacy. [youtube]https://youtu.be/Lgtq2e-On0w[/youtube] Are you a fan of the DC Essentials line? Recently DC Entertainment Co-Publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio did a fan Q&A at the Burbank Library moderated by Tiffany[...]
LBCC 2015 – Experts Discuss Ins and Outs of Animated Web Comics
Leonard said he referred to it as a cartoon series, while Hamilton used digital series and Miller indicated it was typically called a web series. Blum then asked the panelist to discuss what challenges they faced in working with animated web comics Burch said it was the shifting economics and especially the algorithm statistics that traditionally[...]
Frank Miller Guest Of Honour At Inaugural Comic Con Paris
But this event is likely to have more of an American comics and media focus. And Miller does have a large fanbase in France, with his work selling in equivalent numbers to his American sales, with a fraction of an overall audience Indeed, his Batman work was recently reissued in black and white in France, something DC[...]
Plants Vs. Zombies Comics To Be Collected Into A Boxed Set Next Month
Now it's time for a new release! Just in time for Halloween, Dark Horse Comics and PopCap Games are releasing a spooktacular Plants vs Zombies boxed set collecting three critically acclaimed graphic novels! Eisner Award–winning writer Paul Tobin and artist Ron Chan deliver hilarious, action-filled zombie romps to your neighborhood as young adventurers Patrice Blazing and[...]
When The Comics Industry Watched The Republican Debate On CNN Last Night
So, there was a Republican Presidential debate on CNN last night… It's that time again where the comics hive mind live tweet the GOP debate. — Ryan Burton (@rburton03) September 17, 2015 It is! Good call! And they didn't totally tweet about Trump… but first from the Daily Show…   At the end of the debate, everyone is going to[...]
To Geek Or Not To Geek: LARP Volume 1 Is Available Now From Dark Horse
From Dark Horse Comics, YA author Dan Jolley (Warriors, My Boyfriend Is a Monster), writer Shawn deLoache and artist Marlin Shoop come together to deliver a coming-of-age story for nerds and jocks alike! I'm talking about LARP Volume 1. Chew artist Rob Guillory talked about the book by saying, The Geek is strong with this book[...]
Meccacon, Milestone And How It Should Be – Michael Davis, From The Edge
Within the African American convention space there exists a whole lot of different 'camps' and depending on what camp you belong to you may or may not take up a certain charge. Mecca Con is well known among the Black comics creative community yet very little is broadcast from that community to each other and none[...]
Niobe: She Is Life, She Is Coming…
I get the feeling that when the first issue of Niobe: She Is Life from Stranger Press hits in November, it may hit hard. A combination of a new comic,
Swipe File: Valiant And NATO
  Valiant Entertainment has had a few logos over the couple-of-decades. Before it settled on the current design, by Rian Hughes. But at its heart, is
So, Brian Wood Put Out A Newsletter…
 If you do it for the wrong reasons, you won't get the results you need."  Its no secret I hate public shaming (and doxing and blackmail and similar attacks), in politics, in religion, in any situation, including comics  I think its ugly  Its been the subject of past newsletters   But this is not the[...]
Justin Jordan On Problems With The $9.99 Price Point For Trade Paperbacks
Let's say you can produce nine issues a year of comics (fairly typical) and your artist is making 3,000 an issue. (I'm ignoring the writer here And the colorist And everyone else) That's 27,000 a year for, likely, the only thing the artist can do That's not a tremendous amount of income It's actually worse than you[...]
Black Jack Ketchum – Image Comics Next Big Surprise?
Long-time readers of Bleeding Cool may recall a number of articles about the comic book Ultrasylvania, self published through Kickstarter. Well the creative team's latest book is bypassing such activities and going straight to Image Comics for their next book, just announced for December, Black Jack Ketchum. No Image Expo announcement, no pre-solicit piece arranged with Entertainment[...]
The Batman Banner Hunt For Batman Day
September 26th is Batman Day and as part of the celebration DC has created new banners for all of their character related Facebook pages like this one for Aquaman. But if you look closely at the banner, you'll see the Dark Knight is hiding in the art. They've done this with multiple banners, can you find[...]
Jeff McComsey Talks Z-Men, Rise And Double Take
There are many instances where locations and characters will be crossed over by different series. BC: Since Night of the Living Dead is the starting point for the series, anyone who likes the film should be interested in the comics… but what would you say to someone who either hasn't seen or didn't like the movie? What[...]