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Gail Simone To Speak At The White House About LGBTQ And Disability Issues
Appropriate? — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) June 16, 2014 I have a big meeting at DC Comics in a couple hours and I can't concentrate because I am thinking of this other thing Yipe. — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) June 16, 2014   Wasn't Obama a collector of Conan comics? He will probably have some suggestions for Red Sonja Fans! So pushy! —[...]
A DC Comics Creator Talks About The Band-Aid
A DC Comics creator writes to Bleeding Cool about the Band-Aid project, as we have dubbed it, that will run during the publisher's coastal relocation and created well in advance Confirming much of what we've written, this is  from the horse's mouth Or, if nothing else the horse's stable boy. He (and there's your only clue,[...]
Special Edition: NYC; From Fangirl, to Writer, to Newbie Artist.
It is, in short, a new comic convention/festival to celebrate just that, comics—and it was amazing! It was amazing, not just from a fangirl perspective, but from an art-obsessed mindset looking for a story My main interest was at the back of that hall: the place we all call Artist Alley Artist Alley is always[...]
Hunt Emerson's Calculating Ploy
Such as Calculus Cat, an eighties creation for Don and Maggie Thompson's mini-comics, being revived and reprinted by Knockabout – that's if Hunt can get the Kickstarter together to help fund the restoration and creation of new work. Calculus Cat's home life is locked in an intense, argumentative relationship with his TV set, which bedevils him[...]
Orbiting Around Big Trouble In Little China, Tiny Titans, X-Men: Days Of Future Past And More
[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/The-Orbiting-Pod-Episode-154.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to Episode 154 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we hitch a ride to Big Trouble in Little China #1, scale it down for Tiny Titans: Return to the Treehouse #1, feel out of place with The Superannuated Man #1, sleep[...]
BOOM! Studios Adapts Steve Jackson Games' Munchkin To Monthly Comic
The comic will feature four issue story arcs, be available in physical and digital form, and the physical comics will each come with a Munchkin card included No word yet on when the comic will debut. I will bring Bleeding Cool fans more information on this while at Gen Con in August. Christopher Helton is a blogger, podcaster and tabletop RPG[...]
Homage And Evolution In Infinity Man And The Forever People
By Christopher Helton Dan Didio gets a lot of grief over the management side of his work at DC Comics, but I have enjoyed his comic writing work at the company, particularly the OMAC reboot that he did with artist and collaborator Keith Giffen This team is back and tackling another Jack Kirby creation: The Forever[...]
Ex-El Jueves Spanish Cartoonists To Publish Orgullo y Satisfacción On Wednesday
A 75 page comic for one-and-a-half Euros, directed by William Albert Monteys, Manel Fontdevila, Manuel Bernardo Vergara and Bartual, with articles and cartoons by Agreda, Albert Monteys, Asier and Javier Bernardo Vergara, William, Isaac Rosa, Iu Forn, Lalo Kubala, Luis Bustos, Malagon, Manel Fontdevila, Manuel Bartual, Mel, Paco Alcázar, Paco Sordo, Pepe Colubi and Triz. The[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 16th June 2014 – A Superior Spider-Man
But it was the word that we may see Pre 52 Superman facing off against the younger New 52 Superman that got the most attention… Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week The DC Comics Band-Aid Project To Bring Back The Pre-52 Did The Advance September Solicits Spoil Superman Surprise? Rumour: Fox Don't Want Bryan Singer To Direct X-Men: Apocalypse The[...]
Things To Do In New York This Week If You Like Comics
Tuesday, June 17th JHU Comics on 32 East 32nd Street in New York will be hosting a signing with Josh Blaylock from 5PM to 8PM They say: "JHU Comic Books is proud to welcome Josh Blaylock (GI Joe, Mercy Sparx, Yumiko: Curse of the Merch Girl) to our Manhattan location!  As a talented writer and head[...]
The Death Of Wolverine #2, #3 And #4 Join The $4.99 Creep
These were the rather bare solicitations for September's The Death Of Wolverine from Marvel Comics. DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1 CLASSIFIED Variant and sketch covers by Joe Quesada and Alex Ross, covers by Skottie Young, Deadpool variant 9/3/2014 $4.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #2 CLASSIFIED 9/10/2014 $3.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 CLASSIFIED 9/17/201 $3.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #4 CLASSIFIED 9/24/2014 $3.99 Well, we know the creators are Charles Soule and Steve McNiven[...]
Trees #1 Sells 6,000 Copies More Than Ordered, And Slowly Continues To
"Sells 6000 copies more than ordered, and slowly continues to" is no kind of headline. Au contraire, Warren, au contraire. Warren is appearing with Grant Morrison tonight at the British Library as part of the Comics Unmasked series of events Yes, I'll be there. I really liked the new Warren Ellis/Jason Howard comic book Trees[...]
Late Night Fun – Gene Ha Shows Cover Process
This is the cover for the new Sensation Comics #1 Correction… this is the cover for Sensation Comics #2, thank you Gene Ha for letting me know.     On his Tumblr page, comic book artist Gene Ha made an animated gif allowing us to see the process he goes through to make a cover for DC's[...]
Writer's Commentary – Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty Lives #4 By David Liss
Now Liss is back with a writer's commentary for the recently released fourth and penultimate issue of the series. Page 1.  When I first started writing comics for Marvel, one of the first bits of advice my most excellent editor, Bill Rosemann, gave me was to swing for the fences.  I always interpreted that as meaning that[...]
With Starlight #4, Millar Comes Down To Earth (Gasp!)
Starlight dishes out a perfect amount of space-adventure-comicbook fun and I'm glad I stuck around. Starlight #4 is written by Mark Millar, with art by Goran Parlov, and is published by Image Comics. Abdulkareem Baba Aminu is a BleedingCool contributor, newspaper editor, award-winning journalist, cartoonist, comic book creator, painter and poet The Nigeria-based writer has reviewed comics,[...]