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Dynamite has been pushing their new Creators Unleashed line very hard. They're kicking it off with Joshua Hale Fialkov and his new series The Devilers

It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. Uncanny X-Men is booming across the board, overtaking the mainstay of Batman Eternal, with only the event book Original Sin beating them both (and[...]

Project: The Economics of Digital Comics Creators Involved: Todd AllenCampaign End Date: 7/18/14. Publishing Date: September 2014. Ye Olde Elevatore Pitche: Exploring how digital comics make money and where they fit in the overall comics market.   Todd Allen writes, I don't really get to engage in idle speculation very often over at Publisher's Weekly, but this is Bleeding Cool, so[...]

1X: short comics by Charles Butler, a Kickstarter campaign, close date: Wednesday, July 16th Charles Butler writes, At some point in high school I made the conscious choice to pursue becoming a professional banjo player It was a difficult decision to make, not for the obvious reasons, but because I felt I inevitably had to sacrifice another lofty goal,[...]

On Sunday at Heroes Con, it seemed like a perfect afternoon panel for thought, discussion, and reflection on the direction of "LGBT Characters in Comics" with Terry Moore, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, and Kate Leth, with Bryan Pittard and Eric Punzone of Flame On! Podcast hosting. Pittard speculated that this was the first dedicated LGBT panel[...]

But growing up in comics means that there are writers and artists they have always followed and are used to seeing creative team change while following characters they liked His favorite version of Turtles is his own version of the comics, though he appreciates all their incarnation. Blackard asked what place Mirage Studios had in creating[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Night Time Brewery: Lagunitas The night. All manner of things come from the night. Things that crawl, things that screech. And

In comics the word hero seems to have a very narrow meaning: in this story I want to broaden , or give the word back some more nuance Rory IS a hero, or at least he tries to be, though he doesn't set about saving people or fighting evil villains, at least at the beginning. BC:[...]

All of those are excellent cartoons based on comics (and in the case of original Batman it went on to influence the comics they were based on!) However in terms of the influence on the relationships of our characters this one just has the edge Oh and of course the theme tune and opening sequence. Samurai Pizza[...]

It was a combination of luck and creative frustration that drew us back together and fuelled our desire to make a proper go at the world of comics We discovered, quite quickly, that our influences were still extremely similar We found the same things funny, exciting and compelling, and although Malcolm Magic was a LONG[...]

Ian Harvey Stone writes, A few weeks ago, you may have read about my crowd funding project for The Devil Without on Bleeding Cool. It's on! It's going to

The 11th Hour. Timothy Lyon Jr., Johnny Morrow. Publishing Date: December 2014 (Planned).  Timothy Lyon Jr writes, "The 11th Hour is the journey of

Heroes Con once again proved somewhat innovative in bringing together this thematic grouping on Saturday, and it was a very interesting conversation among professionals, helping define what horror in comics means right now Adam Daughhetee moderated a panel featuring Ben Templesmith, Rafael Albuquerque, Rachel Deering, Matthew Roberts, and Vanesa Del Rey about their life and[...]

Now, the lastest in the creator driven comics is on it's way from Duane Swierczynski and Keith Burns… Ex-Con And the first issue will feature a cover by Tim Bradstreet. Ex-Con #1 begins in 1985 with L.A con artist Cody Pomeray, who had a gift for looking inside a mark's soul with just a glance[...]

Renegade are collecting the four issue series of The Dept Of Monsterology, along with the prologue that appeared in USA Today and Judge Dredd Megazine, as

Two trades are planned as well as a release through comiXology. The best way to get updates and news for Tin is by visiting facebook.com/TinComics or twitter.com/tincomics. By Ilya Dvilyanski I'm incredibly lazy. At least that's what I was saying until yesterday when it suddenly dawned on me that staying up till 3 to work on a comic[...]

It has been pointed out to Bleeding Cool that we may have had a scoop without noticing it. From the other day's look at Licensing Expo 2014, a look at the

Last week I talked with Tony Lee about the upcoming series Steampunk Battlestar Galactica: 1880. At the time we got to see a few of the covers for the

Valiant has two new books coming out on Wednesday and we've got preview for both. X-O Manowar #26 continues the big Armor Hunters crossover and the

But here we are, I have a series of shorts out for free online, and I just launched a Kickstarter… I was first introduced to comics as a young lad going to visit my father on weekends; he'd take me into the local newsagency on his way into the TAB and I'd get to pick out[...]

He's always cognitively processing something, so he also does writing at that point. All of the panelists were asked, "When you're scripting a book, how do you generate panels? Organically on a page-by-page basis or do you have a bunch of layouts you pull from as situation requires?" Hopeless said, "Usually it's pretty organic, picking the moments,[...]

A few months ago, Bleeding Cool ran this story, The Inspiration Of Liam York. In which we noted that artist Liam York was being repeatedly called out for

Yesterday, we let you know that Figment #1 was attracting some speculator attention, as Disney fans of the theme park figure tried in vain to by copies from their local comic shop. Well, that seems to have done the trick. I'm told that the second issue of Figment (rigt) has now sold out at Diamond Comic Distributors, after[...]

Mike Deodato writes to Bleeding Cool, I was googling myself when I found this Aquaman image. My first thought was "hey, somebody swiped my cover!" but

Mike Federali writes, Nancy Collins is an acclaimed comic book writer (Swamp Thing) and horror novelist (Sonja Blue series) bringing her exceptional

One of us, Chuck, expressed the opinion that a frank story line about AIDS was not right for comics marketed to children His editors rejected the idea and asked him to apologize to colleagues for even expressing it Soon enough, Chuck got less work. This has been transformed online into the blacklisting story again It was[...]

It came out last week, That's Because You're A Robot from Image Comics And it's great You need it. Anyway, they are both doing a signing at Gosh Comics in London from 2pm today, and if I wasn't attending my kids' school fair as a caricaturist, I'd be going. So why not go instead of me and say[...]

Lots and lots of Avengers. Lots and lots of Guardians Of The Galaxy. Lots and lots of Spider-Man. And... yes, no X-Men. Or Fantastic Four. This is how

by Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/3458/0/PCHPodcastEpisode93.mp3] Following on from last week's episode with Sina Grace & Daniel Freedman (which you can still listen to here), this time around I'm back with Tim Daniel, who recently appeared on the show with Jeremy Holt. Tim & I discuss the route he took breaking into comics, how design (and designers) have become a more focal[...]

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 new, unanticipated desire! Spider-Man 2099[...]