Ryoko Ikeda's manga series is considered a classic in Japan, and hugely influential in its mix of historical fiction, gender-bending, lesbian comics and tragic romance Set in the pre-revolutionary French court with a young Marie Antoinette, the series follows Oscar, a woman raised as a man to succeed her father as Captain of the Palace[...]
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Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to discuss this week's upcoming books, speculating about where they are headed, and discuss their favorite storylines
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Thanks for pressing play! It's another huge week of awesome[...]
The podcast consists of the latest news in comics, creator interviews, and a weekly book club discussion.
What a wonderful weekend! We hope yours was great as well Joe covered the latest Comic-Con International for Bleeding Cool and had a blast in the process.
He managed to catch up with friends old and new including Zander Cannon, Stuart Moore, Joe[...]
Because those All-New All-Different launches weren't enough to fill all of Marvel for the week... a five week cosmic what-if event comes in to fill the
Marvel has released the art from the announced Blade: The Hunter series that was shown during the Cup o' Joe panel over the weekend. The series is being
There's both independence from the larger Marvel U that the Secret Wars event affords it, as well as the extrapolation of ideas that failed to be properly utilized the first time around.
Star Wars: Lando #1 (Marvel, $3.99)
by Graig Kent
The all-new, all-real, keepin'-it-in-the-Disney-family Marvel Star Wars comics have been a mixed bag so far, with Darth[...]
Congressman John Lewis was all the rage at SDCC as he promoted his graphic novel series March from Top Shelf. The Congressman “dressed up” as himself,
Mairghread Scott, Dave Roman, Cecil Castellucci, Ian McGinty, and Thom Zahler gathered for a panel on Sunday at SDCC to focus on all-ages comics, moderated by Whitney Leopard.
When asked about how they choose age group or direct their stories to all-ages, Castellucci said for her it's all about "voice" and how the story wants to[...]
The final issue of Matt Fraction and David Aja's acclaimed run on Hawkeye #22, long delayed though long finished, is this Wednesday. But for those who
His current series, a spy family sitcom called KC Undercover for the Disney Channel.
And, because this is Bleeding Cool, he also write the Big Finish Doctor Who audio, The Game.
We've just had Comic Con week, he's launching a new comic book publisher, called Sitcomics Which he describes as attempting to be "a creative pipeline, providing new and established[...]
And finally we have the last of the exclusive first looks at Dynamite's titles shipping in October. Here we have the finale of the main miniseries for the
Based in Nigeria, the writer has reviewed comics, novels, movies and music for a variety of platforms He is currently the Editor of the Saturday edition of the Daily Trust, one of the most influential newspapers in his country Last year, he survived The Walking Dead Escape, photobombed the cast of Avengers: Age of Ultron,[...]
Yes, here are the details for the Fight Club 2 Scratch-and-Sniff Bookmark Contest. The contest is in support of the Fight Club 2 mini-series, which is written by Palahniuk, illustrated by Cameron Stewart and colored by Dave Stewart, with covers by David Mack.
Dark Horse Comics has provided 10,000 scratch-and-sniff bookmarks, numbered to correspond to a clue in the[...]
The anarchism of Chip Zdarsky is alive and well in this panel.
Chip starts at the beginning, talking how he liked comics and he liked to draw, but school ruined any hopes of making money doing it after getting a C- in art….he has since been back to that school to lecture about art.
He joked about[...]
Dynamite has sent over a first look at the covers and solicitation for the sci-fi titles shipping in October. These include John Carter: Warlord of Mars,
Issue five was sent to press this week.
Hickman openly theorized that the next five years will see the best comics in years coming out, as more and more creators make the move to creator-owned work and the growing success of Image He also frequently praised Image for being a place where creators are getting the[...]
We broke this story out on Bleeding Cool on Friday, but now it is all properly official. Announced at the Women Of Marvel panel today, Ryan North and
We broke this story out on Bleeding Cool on Friday, but now it is all properly official. A new Female Blade character launching in her new comic from
Dan DiDio and Jim Lee have been holding court on Sunday morning of San Diego Comic Con and had plenty to say.
When asked about Scott Snyder's note on his Batpanel the other day that he is working with new writers for DC Comics, Dan and Jim talked about Bobbie Chase, VP Talent Development working with[...]
Dan DiDio and Jim Lee have been holding court on Sunday morning of San Diego Comic Con and had plenty to say. Including DC announcing a crossover between
Dan DiDio and Jim Lee have been holding court on Sunday morning of San Diego Comic Con and had plenty to say. JMS mentioned he was working on Flash Earth
With the movies firing on all cylinders, the comics relaunching with All-New All–Different Marvel, and the success of their primetime and Netflix shows, they have a unique opportunity to give us action figure collectors figures we never dreamed of getting.
They started off the panel by showing the first build a figure for 2016: Red Skull[...]
Dan DiDio and Jim Lee have been holding court on Sunday morning of San Diego Comic Con and had plenty to say.
Jim Lee will be working as an artist with Reginald Hudlin and Denys Cowan on the first of the new Milestone 2.0 volumes from DC Comics, reviving the publishing line, and beginning with its[...]
Dan DiDio and Jim Lee have been holding court on Sunday morning of San Diego Comic Con and had plenty to say. Jim Lee designed the logo, there and then,
At San Diego Comic Con, Dan DiDio and Jim Lee lead a meet-the-co-publishers panel to kick off Sunday morning Talking about Dark Knight: The Master Race,
Alonso says it will dive headfirst into noir – if you like the Netflix show you're gonna like this.
We then are treated to some slides and videos of upcoming games, including Spider-Man Unlimited, which will have new skins featuring the redesigned costumes and also bringing Spider-Verse and Spider-Island into the game.
Fan questions section now:
Spider-Men comes[...]
You know him from his wonderful movies for Bleeding Cool. Or from being at the right place at the right time for the Eisner Wards on Friday. But Patrick
This is our super-humongous cosplay update to start your morning off right. We have photos from Michelle Brittany, Marilyn Weiss, Peter Svensson and
He and his wife Maria Lapham started Stray Bullets with one story, and then another, with Lapham finding ways to make them connect later on.
"I used to say our goal was to hurt people with the stories," Lapham joked.
"Sina, you do comics about you," Brothers said.
Grace took DeConnick's microphone, much louder than the others, and[...]