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Wes Locher writes,  The story goes that when Stan Lee was close to quitting his position at Marvel Comics, his wife, Joan, encouraged him to write the comic book he always wanted to write After all what's the worst that would happen? And y'know what Stan wrote with that mindset? The Fantastic Freakin' Four. There's a fantastic[...]

My natural tendencies are to anti-mythologize – not necessarily the best approach for someone working in comics, where mythology is the industry obsession – and loner heroes with a shall we say unconventional relationship to law, order and standard morality give me a chance to work the darker corners of the room[...]

Shaun Paulet writes for Bleeding Cool: Success. How do you measure it? Is it the amount of sales you make? The joy you bring to others? How much you earn?

With the success of the initial Chaos Comics relaunch by Tim Seeley and the subsequent Purgatori, Chastity and Evil Ernie series coming out of it, its not a surprise to see Dynamite pulling more and more from the Chaos Universe Now we get a one-shot, Chaos: The Chosen from Michael Moreci (Hoax Hunters) Byron Brewer[...]

Top Cow has three books hitting shops this week. The return of the Pilot Series book Genius, the continuation of the David Weber novel adaptation Tales Of

Has Wolverine ever had a girlfriend who was a giant? Can he heal himself and other people because he has a degree in badassery and medicine? Does he partake in appalling orgies of killing? All right, he does, but whereas Wolverine can't remember his past, Brok Windsor knows exactly who he is. Created by legendary Canadian artist[...]

Valiant's secret society One Percent of Wall Street get their own solo adventure. In November the publisher will release Archer & Armstrong: The One

Established comic book writers fear one thing. New comic book writers, with their fancy modern day cultural references, boundless enthusiasm and

Ultimately, such gatekeeping was unsuccessful—look at Tolkien and the current explosion of genre fare across our society–but there has been no great writer of children's literature that attitude has been more effective on that Edith Nesbit, an author all but forgotten today. Publisher and project editor, April Brown, is making a play to change that with[...]

A fox. A wolf. A fairy. Something shrew-like. A boy in shorts. A path through a wood. And a face peeking out from leaves. And coming from Colleen Doran

Marvel's Tom Brevoort continues to answer questions from the good, the bad and the ugly. And there's one he's been dancing around for a while. But now he

I'm sure we know a lot of the same people in comics, but how have we managed to avoid each other for so many years? JEFF PARKER: We actually had lunch together in Sherman Oaks about a decade ago, thanks for remembering Joe! We were at Earth 2 Comics and went to the French place next[...]

By Olly MacNamee Having grown up with the artwork of Steve 'The Dude' Rude through his work on Nexus, then Miracle Man and World's Finest at DC Comics as well as his work for Marvel with Children of The Atom at the turn of the millennium, it was great to finally meet one of my childhood[...]

Revival, by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton from Image Comics, is a series set in a small town about a bunch of folk living in a small town who just. came back to life. Not that life has exactly been easy since then. But it looks as if there is likely to be a development[...]

Remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5qaso1Dt64 Well, Marvel, after seeing the movie, we would like a Guardians Of The Galaxy version for

The big news from Dynamite's 10th Anniversary panel was as much about who was on the panel than anything else. Writer/Director Quentin Tarantino joined a

Corey Ransberg, our roving Bleeding Cool photo-reporter has kindly sent us in these lovely images he captured at San Diego Comic Con encapsulating plenty

By Olly MacNamee Nothing is ever what it seems. When we meet Luke, one of a gang of four central characters in the collected mini-series, Tabatha from T

Wood's surface influences of "punk rock" and cyberpunk are demonstrated in his aesthetic choices, utilizing the zine methodologies of early "underground" comic books and punk magazines and taking clear visual inspiration from the works of French comics artist Mœbius This is especially true of Mœbius's "The Long Tomorrow" (1975), a short story that had semiotic[...]

In this comic, Sundowners, he takes on the psychology of superheroes, how their obsessions would play out in a non-superhero world, but one very like our own where superheroes are a big part of pop culture, and sets it all to the tune of both horror and humor. Sundowners explores the lives of a "support group"[...]

By Christine Marie Vinciquarra Most of you probably know Bryan Lee O’Malley from a series he wrote between 2004-2010 called Scott Pilgrim. It was a vastly

On August 27th, a new comic arrives from Dark Horse, POP, and it is, simply stated, a boundary-pushing book regarding the themes we typically associate with the comics medium, as well as an unusual book in terms of art style It is a genre-mixer of wide scope, with adventure, spy, science-fiction, B-movie and pulp elements,[...]

August 1st-3rd Blood And Roses: Magical Girls By Sally Jane Thompson exhibition Orbital Comics Saturday 2nd, 3pm-4pm Doctor Who Signing Forbidden Planet  Rob Williams, Al Ewing and Des Taylor will be signing the first issues of the 10th and 11th Doctor Who Comics, including Forbidden Planet's exclusive versions. Friday 9th Open Night, and Saturday 9th onwards Orbital Comics Lords Of Infinity Exhibition The work of Cristian Ortiz, Andy Poyiadgi and James[...]

A couple of decades ago, Battlestar Galactica was this sci-fi TV show from the seventies and eighties that was roundly mocked for being cheesey, trite and quite a bit Mormon. When Rob Liefeld got the license to create comics based on the show, he picked them up for pennies There was no interest in the license[...]

  Can't deny Thanos looks good in the Guardians movie. The best comic book chin on the big screen since Judge Dredd,. And handily there's an original

Okay, that's not a new print, but it is the new Francesco Francavilla variant for the Original Sin Annual #1 (will there ever be a #2?) But getting second prints from Marvel Comics are Original Sin #5 #5.1 #5.2 and #6, Amazing Spider-Man #2 and #3, Uncanny X-Men #23 and Daredevil #6, Getting a third print is Figment[...]

A new collected editon of The Secret Service, or rather Kingsman: The Secret Service, is being rush-published by Marvel Comics for the end of September when they suddenly realised that that was when the film was out and someone suddenly decided that maybe it would be better not to wait until November for the book[...]

[Part 1, Looking at the Villains of Guardians of the Galaxy by Looking at the Comics was previously published on Bleeding Cool This is Part 2, Looking at the Heroes] By Ian Melton Tickets are bought and later today at the time of writing, the family will be seeing Guardians of the Galaxy.  My 8 year old[...]

The latest decampi comics from Marvel is out today, to coincide with the US release of Guardians Of The Galaxy The Guardians Of The Galaxy Infinite Comics One-Shot, by Tim Seeley, Reilly Brown, Iban Coello, Jacopo Camagni and Jim Charalapidis has the Guardians telling their own best stories… What happens when a very important part of your[...]

 Superman's 75th anniversary was in 2013, Batman's 75th anniversary was earlier this year, and we even noted Blue Beetle's 75th anniversary recently. It's hard to overstate how important the year 1939 was in laying the groundwork for the comics industry as we know it today By the second half of the year, DC's early success had[...]