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Hallowe'en Comic Fest is the Diamond Comic Distribution owned-and-organised event in Hallowe'en to act as a counterbalance to Free Comic Book Day in the spring. With a bunch of comics to be ordered to be given away for free, over the Hallowe'en period With less of an emphasis on new comics, or the promotion of new[...]

Anyone care to draw it? Bob Fingerman's Minimum Wage channels a number of artists this week, including Richard Corben and Moebius, as our hero tries to distract himself from the attraction of women by transforming his world into that of underground or European comics artists With disasterous results. From Batwoman, there Actually I think Batman is constantly[...]

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting the work of Shaky Kane. So, Marvel's guilt-filled Original Sin event continues with a new issue and new crossovers, directly and thematically today, with Original Sin #4, Avengers #31 and Nova #18 So what are today's Original Sins? Well, with Nova, as solicited, it's been finding out more about[...]

Whatever you say online doesn't actually count… Red Hood And The Outlaws #32 is published by DC Comics today Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting the work of Shaky Kane. I've never been the biggest fan of Scott Lobdell's work I think Generation X with Chris Bachalo was probably his high point for me, and[...]

A style that sits somewhere between Frank Quitely and Tony Millionaire – both of whom have also drawn Batman. Bertram also had a strip in the recent Detective Comics #27, though that was flanked by other styles in an anthology format. It is scratchy, it is cartoony, it has characters with pudgy faces and big eyes. It looks[...]

Pre-orders are all sold out I'm afraid folks. But here is what it will look like, box and all, courtesy of John Layman.

This week we see the release of the final issue of Aphrodite IX from Top Cow. Writer Matt Hawkins and artist Stjepan Sejic wrap up this series and lead us

Alien Legion: Uncivil War #1 lands on June 25th, a single-issue series from Titan Comics written by Chuck Dixon, with art by Larry Stroman, and Carl Potts and colors by Tom Mason The series brings back the original creators on Alien Legion, Dixon and Potts, in all new stories for the first time in 15[...]

I just couldn't take another confrontation, half-hearted explanation or another "band-aid" in the form of a t-shirt. Women of all nationalities, shapes and sizes love comics I've been a comic book collector since the age of 12 I have tattoos of my favorite comic book character and working towards Marvel and DC half sleeves In my[...]

There was something about the stories that clicked with me in the same way comics had I was lucky enough to write a few prose stories for The Phantom and the Avenger, so when I got the chance to talk to fellow pulp lover Michael Uslan about his upcoming project for Dynamite, Justice Inc… I[...]

One of the things I really depended on for balance was my favorite hobby, comics, and coincidentally there was this new website that was right up my alley called Bleeding Cool I read everything that the site posted Checking for updates was part of my daily routine and that gave me something to think about[...]

It was the digital first comic that opened with controversy, the hiring of Orson Scott Card to write a Superman story for the anthology series. The

As part of a series of events alongside the Comics Unmasked: Art And Anarchy In The UK exhibition, they had comics scholars Will Brooker and Sarah Zaidan  to deliver essays about the history of superheroes which, while interesting, might not have brought a crowd out on a Monday night in London. But that was okay, because they[...]

Only Ravana knows what rewards and punishment await the winner and the loser in this duel of horror hostesses. "Fans of good comics should love this book because I am giving it 200 percent," says writer/artist Joseph Michael Linsner. "I've been in the game for 25 years, so I've learned a thing or two I'll be summoning[...]

  Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor series will be Titan Comics third ongoing Doctor Who comic book, this series by Robbie Morrison and Dave Taylor. Featuring the likeness of Peter Capaldi in the role, a couple of months after the new incarnation debuts on the BBC. DoctorWho.TV have the covers… though they still seem to be under the[...]

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 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,[...]

This week it's a double-bill with the release of Prog 1886 from 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine #349, the latter with a bold cover from Catwoman 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[...]

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[...]

Hannah Means-Shannon here reporting on my first honest-to-God rumor. Yes, it's partly because Rich Johnston is asleep but also because, hey, I found it

By Alex Wilson A new web is hitting the Internet this week on June 18th and it seems fairly legitimate to the comic book culture we all populate. MMORPG

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to discuss this week's upcoming books, speculating about where they are headed, and discuss their favorite storylines Hosts Randy Young and Chris Hunter say: And we're back! Thanks for pressing play! It's another exciting week[...]

Take the Avengers September solicits from Newsarama, the Spider-solicits from CBR and the X-solicits from Comicbook.com - what do we get? AVENGERS WORLD

Continuing their 75th anniversary celebration of Batman, DC Collectibles has announced two new Batman Black and White statues based on the art work of

From the September solicitation for Secret Avengers #8. SECRET AVENGERS #8 ALES KOT (W) MICHAEL WALSH (A) Cover by TRADD MOORE “M.O.D.O.K. SUPREME

Dynamite Entertainment is taking their second dip into the world of Steampunk. Their first trip was Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure from Bill

[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[...]

I hosted the "Writing in Comics" panel at the New York Comic Fest in White Plains, New York on Saturday on behalf of Bleeding Cool, featuring guests Dean Haspiel, (The Fox, The Fantastic Four, Billy Dogma) Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules, Brain Boy, Archer & Armstrong, Cowboys & Aliens), Justin Gray (Jonah Hex, Hawkman, The[...]

At a time when direct market comics were just starting He's witnessed all of the major events in the comic industry since 1976 and could talk about it from a retailer's perspective So I decided to take advantage of that and sent him a boat load of questions and Mike was nice enough to answer[...]