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Liz Hey writes from San Diego Comic Con: There's a certain bitterness that comes in every female Comic Con veteran's response to the concept of Women-in-Comics panels We're almost always one of the following: tired of being treated like a complete anomaly and different from our male counterparts, exhausted of hearing the same self-explanatory questions over[...]

In addition, comics are focused verbally, so word usage is limited and concise Federman and Scaia said that Darby Pop has been helpful to focus their story. The experience working on a comic book has changed each writer's approach by looking at the story from a visual point of view first Federman, who wrote Jericho: Season[...]

It was one of the first big-name, creator-owned comics for the direct market, which was very young at the time, and it's just another example of Kirby being ahead of the curve It's a property that the Kirby estate owns, so we're really proud we're able to work on a Kirby creation that actually goes[...]

He produced an expansive farewell on Tumblr this week to commemorate the release of the final installment of the mega-arc. Initially, he describes the reputation of Crossed as "the sickest thing in comics" as something that made him uncomfortable as being an end in itself for readers: It would take place in a shared universe whose first[...]

Launching this week, Dark Ages from Dark Horse, as well as their final issue of Star Wars, Godzilla Cataclysm, Transfomers Primacy and Judge Anderson from IDW, Dead@17 and a new Walking Dead from Image, a new Original Sin from Marvel, First Hero and Midnight Tiger both from Action Lab, Hexed from Boom, Southern Dog from[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to unanticipated desire! And the success[...]

Zombies: Timepocalypse Dark Horse Comics Crazy Dave-the babbling-yet-brilliant inventor and top-notch neighborhood defender-helps his niece, Patrice, and young adventurer Nate Timely fend off Zomboss's latest global attack in Plants vs Zombies: Timepocalypse! This new, standalone tale will tickle your funny bones and thrill your brains! The hit video game continues its comic-book invasion! Vamplets: Undead[...]

And the usual market leader, Batman by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo was pushed to second place in July's comics sales chart. And while this helped Marvel grab back some of the marketshare DC had taken from them in recent months, DC are still ahead of where they were earlier in the year. So in May, June[...]

They say that the panels will be "longer" than ones typically held at comic book conventions to "fit in as many questions and tips from the professionals as possible", and that the panel events are particularly geared toward those who are interested in the process of comics art and pursuing the creation of comics. Panels will[...]

This is a review of the recently released Jennifer Blood: Born Again #1 by Steven Grant and Kewber Baal and will contain spoilers. On the surface, the

Now he's over at Dynamite as part of the Chaos! Comics relaunch and doing the art duties on Chastity We turn the spotlight on this up-and-coming artist to see how he got started and where he wants to go. BLEEDING COOL: How did you get started drawing? DAVE ACOSTA: My older brothers were into drawing, so art[...]

Archie Comics fans, you can get 100 free digital comics… from Archie #1 to Kevin Keller #1, when you download the new app via iOS and Android platforms So if you haven't been following the folks in Riverdale, now is you chance to catch up. In addition to the amazing, limited-time 100 comics offer, the new[...]

By Tony Panaccio Jack Kirby just cannot get any respect these days. With Guardians of the Galaxy heating up in theatres, with scads of screen credits for

David may have achieved success with his previous socially conscious issue, with #420 even including letters from the comics community who have dealt with AIDS, but #429 is rushed and more concerned with furthering the ongoing, serialized narrative rather than confronting taboo subject matter It doesn't help that artist Liam Sharp is widely inconsistent compared[...]

By Shawn Perry The second issue of Grayson by Tim Seeley and Tom King follows the pattern of the modern Hollywood sequel in that it takes what was

His comics are constantly inventive and always push the boundaries of the medium His Image book Sex is a perfect example.  Drawn by Piotr Kowalski, colored by Brad Simpson, lettered by Rus Wooton, and designed by Sonia Harris, Sex is a masterclass, is one of Joe's most impressive works to date.  Equal parts subtle and overt, this book[...]

If Marvel won't make a toy out of this... Then Etsy will. In a very unofficial, non-legal fashion. Please won't some one cross it with this? It's

Patrick Willems talked to Rob Liefeld about… anything but comics at San Diego Comic Con Movies like Godzilla, Monsters, Snowpiercer… and Levi jeans And his abilities regarding taking on the rest of the comics industry [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU3Yl6xU-OE[/youtube] Patrick Willems talked to Rob Liefeld about… anything but comics at San Diego Comic Con[...]

Breaking all over the place right now, DC Comics will be doing Lego-themed variants for November  These will include: Action Comics #36 Aquaman #36 Batgirl #36 Batman #36 Batman & Robin #36 Batman/Superman #16 Catwoman #36 Detective Comics #36 Flash #36 Harley Quinn #12 Grayson #4 Green Lantern #36 Green Lantern Corps #36 JLU #6 Justice League #36 Justice League Dark #36 New Teen Titans #4 Sinestro #7 Supergirl #36 Superman #36 Superman/Wonder Woman #13 Wonder Woman[...]

Marq Romero writes, The only time I had to walk around the exhibit floor on the last day of Comic-Con was at 4pm, an hour before closing. I walked past

Tony from The Action Room went shopping in Brooklyn. And shared his spoils... Such as the Hawkeye Mini-Hauler. Because, you know, Hawkeye often has a lot

Brazilian Candy Store. Courtesy of Carlos Verdadeiromem of Brazil. That particular logo of DC Comics, known as the DC Spin, was abandoned after a court case with DC Shoes DC Comics sued the shoe manufacturer over their logo, featuring the letters DC and a star, only for the court to realise that DC hadn't actually registered their[...]

Dynamite's new Creators Unleashed title Terminal Hero hit stores this week and series creator/writer Peter Milligan went through the issue and shares his

I'll be convalescing for a few days until I reckon I'll be back on board, eating lots of ice cream and screaming into the dark. But I have lined up oodles of lovely content to run in the interim, and there will plenty of pieces from Hannah Means-Shannon, Dan Wickline and some of our contributors. Just no[...]

One for the ages…! For more on Captain Victory And The Galactic Rangers #1, click here. Issue One Exclusive Extended Preview: CAPTAIN VICTORY AND THE GALACTIC RANGERS #1 Joe Casey (w) Nathan Fox, Jim Rugg, Ulises Farinas (a) Nathan Fox (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+ Joe Casey is one of the industries most popular writers having written for Marvel and DC,[...]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDvYw2cgSQc[/youtube] Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: Holy cow was this a great week for comics! Foxi called in sick, so our 30th episode celebration is being put on hold until episode 33! Watch out…[...]

Moonstone Books is a Chicago based publisher that prints both comics and prose They tend to specialize in classic pulp characters like The Phantom, The Green Hornet and The Avenger as well as more obscure characters like Domino Lady and Boston Blackie. Now the publisher is offering up a story that has been out of print[...]

Jimmy Palmiotti writes on Facebook, of his good lady wife, Amanda Conner, Why Amanda can no longer do free sketches at cons. Happens every single con. ps:

Meeting two legends like this is the reason that I love going to comic conventions. I also had my first face to face meeting with Marvel Comics writer Cullen Bunn Bunn and I have chatted on Twitter, and I interviewed him once for my blog We chatted about gaming and comics, and he told me his[...]

Boom! Studios is teaming with Humble Bundle to offer up a bunch of digital comics to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund The two-week program allows fanst to pay what they want to download DRM-free digital copies of Boom! titles. https://www.humblebundle.com/books The available titles are: Curse #1-4 Written by Tim Daniel and Michael Moreci Illustrated by Colin Lorimer and[...]