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As each award is announced, Bleeding Cool will highlight the winner in bold and try to capture some of the dialogue and speeches along the way. Volunteers and organizers of the dinner as well as the AV work for the awards were honored as the awards ceremony began by Paul McSpadden in opening remarks. A new feature[...]

With the change from Dark Horse to Marvel for the Star Wars comic book franchise, I started thinking about all the amazing books Dark Horse did in that

In the Spotlight on Garth Ennis panel at Baltimore Comic Con, Ennis hosted by Dynamite Senior Editor Joe Rybant, blamed his grim sense of humor on being

As part of the upcoming launch of DC Comics series He-Man: The Eternity War this December, Mattel is sponsoring the He-Man: The Photography War – Comic Cover Contest. If you have a camera and some He-Man toys, you just put together a comic cover worthy photo and you can win the right to have the photo[...]

The art is also something to write home about as Stephen Mooney and Jeremy Cox bring this great story to life with magnificent panels on every single page along a slick cover by Andrew Robinson. I'm telling you this now, if you are even remotely a fan of the Dick Grayson character or the modern canon[...]

The big DC Comics panel at Baltimore Comic Con kicked off on Saturday afternoon at 3PM, hosted by Bobbie Chase, featuring Greg Capullo, Cliff Chiang, David Finch, Dan Jurgens, Aaron Kuder, Paul Levitz, Joe Prado, Ivan Reis, and Peter Tomasi. The year 2014 is the 75th anniversary of Batman, and DC aren't done yet, with a[...]

This is the full process package and sure to be a tonne of fun. $7 gets you the WEEKEND PDFs – this is the Broadsheet as well as the RKL SCRIPT PDF, which includes over 200 pages of scripts from various projects ranging from HEADSPACE, the series I write at Monkeybrain Comics, to FATHERHOOD, my ComiXology[...]

Not just at the end either, eagle eyes spotted him as a whit and yellow background blur earlier in the film. At the Marvel Comics panel, where Bleeding Cool EIC Hannah Means-Shannon is liveblogging up a storm, Marvel's Tom Brevoort replied to a fan's question about more Howard The Duck comics as a result of the[...]

Bleeding Cool EIC Hannah Means-Shannon is currently liveblogging the Marvel Comics panel at Baltimore Comic Con You can read her constantly updating piece here. Mark Waid has just been talking about his upcoming Princess Leia comic he is writing, part of the Marvel Star Wars launch of their titles Including how it will take place, for[...]

That is, of course, out of the hands of Marvel comics creators. A fan complimented the "diversification" of the Marvel line in recent years and Brevoort commented that people have very different interests and they do want to produce material that can "appeal to everybody", so they will continue to focus on background and ethnicity, with[...]

This is one of those things, you write one article (okay, three) about Marvel Comics and Disney fighting over who gets to do what with Big Hero 6, and all sorts of people come out of the woodwork with different things to say. And one is that Marvel's Senior Vice President Print, Sales & Marketing, David Gabriel is being[...]

We haven't had one of these for a while. Marvel have decided to double all retailers' orders for Avengers #35, the first part of Time Runs Out as we take

Dynamite is doing a 20th anniversary remastered edition of The Last Temptation, a book by Neil Gaiman, Alice Cooper and Michael Zulli. Two versions were

This is the issue that kicked off the revival of the Chaos! Comics characters over at Dynamite which has lead to multiple series like Evil Ernie, Purgatory and Chastity. For more on Chaos #1 you can check it out in print or digital. Tonight we have a free comic for you, Chaos #1 by Tim Seeley[...]

In stores this next week from Valiant we have the issue before the big anniversary, Archer & Armstrong #24 and the final issue of the Armor Hunters:

Baltimore Comic Con extended to three days this year, opening from 1PM to 7PM on Friday, and using a different exhibit hall space with a larger area. It

IDW Publishing is once again teaming up with Humble Bundle, but this time it's to bring forth $270 worth of Star Trek related digital comics to fans. https://www.humblebundle.com/books The digital comics available for pay-what-you-want are Star Trek Classics Vol 1, Star Trek Classics Vol 2, Star Trek: Best of Klingons and Star Trek: Gold Key Archives Vol[...]

Chris Thompson writes After last week's chat with The Goon's Eric Powell (which you can still listen to here), this time I'm back for the BIG ONE – the long-awaited Episode 100 with Scott Snyder (Batman, American Vampire, and the upcoming Wytches). In a very personal (and quite different) interview, Scott and I discuss what comics mean to him, the[...]

The status quo for Bucky Barnes has changed dramatically and his scope of interest has grown just slightly. Ales Kot & Marco Rudy make the Winter

Thanks to Bleeding Cool Editor-In-Chief Hannah Means-Shannon, we've been hearing about Greg Capullo's Spotlight panel at at Baltimore Comic Con. Which included Greg's plans on DC Comics' Batman title – that he has sixteen issues more to draw on the comic until he is finished The combination of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo on the title[...]

No one can touch his legacy in comics, television, and film Even the most passive fan can tell you his complete origin story and rattle off the top tier of his rogues gallery His legend is so striking, so universally known, that he may as well be considered a part of human folklore And, like[...]

Paul Levitz moderated a panel on the depiction of women in comics at Baltimore Comic Con this year on Friday with panelists Gail Simone, Dave Gibbons, Marguerite Bennett, Adam Hughes, Christina Blanch, and Thom Zahler. Levitz opened by pointing out that whether a character is depicted as sexy or sexualized in comics is a very old[...]

The hardcover collecting Original Sin will no longer be $49.99 as solicited, but $75. retailers are being given a week to adjust their orders, but they

Earlier in the week, writer Jen Williams talked about a very brief period of employment at a comic store, Harrison's Comics in Salem She stated that she'd been told that the back room was called "the rape room" She later complained, but found herself fired After tweeting her experience, the story was picked up first[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J63ko6OEyzM At the edge of space and time, Stan Lee must face his final challenge: Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko! CAST Jacob

Marvel sent the following out in an e-mail to retailers earlier this week. It caused a little commotion, which is how I came to hear about it. EDGE OF

Your divisional and departmental leadership will share more information with you about these changes in the months ahead. Despite the challenges we face, we need to focus on the tasks at hand, maintain the sense of excellence that has defined our company for more than 90 years, and move forward knowing that, regardless of any organizational[...]

Comics Comics stores sld them in August But how many? And from whom? In May, June, July DC Comics' dollar share dropped from 30.04% to 29.88% to 28.18% – but then in August had a slight rise to 28.71% While DC's unit share, the number of actual comics sold regardless of price, fell from 33.52% to 33.20%[...]

DC Comics Senior VP Bob Wayne is involved in what is considered a Farewell Tour The face of the publisher to retailers for decades, he has chosen to leave DC when they move from New York to Burbank. He is currently at the Diamond Retailer Breakfast meeting at Baltimore Comic Con. There was rather an emotional scene[...]

Here is the trailer to the first episode of Gotham. We wrote about it a couple of months ago. The episode, not the trailer....