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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[...]

After my initial interview with Joe Casey and one with Nathan Fox about the return of Jack Kirby's Captain Victory And The Galactic Rangers, I realized I

 By Christine Marie Vinciquarra Right from the start, it was very clear to me why Marie Pommepuy & Fabien Vehlmann named their story Beautiful

The Terminator by Frank Miller and Walter Simonson, two legends of the comics medium At twenty years since the first publication of the four-part series, Dark Horse are releasing both a Gallery Edition and a hardback graphic novel of the series that's based on the premise that the technology that built Robocop is actually the[...]

This volume includes a special introduction chapter to the world of Gravel for new readers and brings one of comics longest running independent characters back to the bloody violence filled world he pioneered Artist Gabriel Rearte vibrantly creates the ultra-violent combat magic-fueled assassin's domain with horrors that are right out of your worst nightmares Gravel[...]

And yesterday, that's exactly what she did. .@GailSimone reminds us that progress in comics required the industry to learn to disregard bogus boycott threats #lgbtd — Alyssa Rosenberg (@AlyssaRosenberg) June 19, 2014   An upcoming Hawkeye story is going to be told in ASL #lgbtd — Alyssa Rosenberg (@AlyssaRosenberg) June 19, 2014   .@GailSimone with hot fire on the absurdity[...]

Another San Diego Comic Con, another variant cover for Chew starring everyone's favourite warrior cyborg chicken, Poyo. With orange foil and limited to

Dynamite's Chaos! Universe is expanding one again to include a new series for Purgatori. This comes on the heels of the Chaos! series by Tim Seeley that

Bleeding Cool has previously reported that DC Comics CCO Geoff Johns has been ordered that he may write no more than two comic books a month. Currently that is Justice League and Superman. Would he sacrifice one for another title? On Twitter last night, Geoff Johns teased his followers, saying, I miss writing the Justice Society. — Geoff Johns (@geoffjohns)[...]

Marvel are sending a preview of Original Sin #6 out. And they promise a revelation. How are your detective skills? This July, the lingering question will

Dare2Draw is a live comic art competition and skill-challenging event that meets fairly regularly in New York at the moment, often at the Society of

This is how Mark Waid describes the origin of his new Thrillbent series, Insufferable. Mark Waid was Grant Morrison's editor on Doom Patrol, and worked with Morrison, Mark Millar and Tom Peyer on the abortive Superman HIVE pitch that caused such internal ructions at DC Comics that Waid was told he would never write the Superman[...]

@jecorona @SaxonJacob @swands #october2014 pic.twitter.com/jKGPKL1lBj" …to a nightmare near you! — Jorge Corona (@jecorona) May 31, 2014 Steve Wands says, So I'm an inker now, and get to spend some time getting my fingers dirty! #wip #goners pic.twitter.com/2Y4QmeoHYE — swands (@swands) May 31, 2014 And Gabriel Cassata says, If you're going to #DenverComicCon this weekend, be sure to say[...]

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine #1, published this week, has sold out of 53,000 copies from Image Comics across nine covers, and has gone to a second printing. They also had a launch party for the comic, with attendees from comic books (Mark Buckingham and Al Ewing) and Hollywood (Felicia Day)[...]

From London Community TV channel London 360, Bobby Joseph, creator on comics such as Skank Magazine and Black Eye talking with fellow comic creators about racial diversity in comic books, both in character and creator, as well as the casting of the Fantastic Four movie and Flash TV show. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E42qMTzNB_4[/youtube] Joseph wrote the recent Why The New Black[...]

Marvel T-Shirt from the current Nerd Block block.   And from RIPT on The Shirt List… But of course, from the comics…   In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the reader, to make that[...]

After the Grant Morrison/Warren Ellis discussion about superheroes at the British Library the other night, I decamped with Tim Pilcher, Alex Fitch and

Heartbroken but extremely grateful. — Joshua Hale Fialkov (@JoshFialkov) June 17, 2014 And talked wider about moving into creator-owned comics (with a couple of remaining Marvel projects first) But who would be writing that final issue? Turns out it is Stuart Moore It's not ften you take on a book knowing that your first issue is the book's[...]