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By Shawn Perry Indie Comics are awesome and you should care about them.  I am starting this column because I have just learned how special this scene has become and want to share my experiences reading them I am passionate about personal storytelling The first thing you need to know about indie creators is that they[...]

Ones to keep watching there.. TOP 50 COMIC BOOKS Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in May 2014 RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR 1 ORIGINAL SIN #1 $4.99 MAR 2 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 $3.99 MAR 3 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.1 $3.99 MAR 4 BATMAN #31 (ZERO YEAR) $3.99 DC 5 FOREVER EVIL #7 $4.99 DC 6 ORIGINAL SIN #2 $3.99 MAR 7 JUSTICE LEAGUE #30 $3.99 DC 8 WALKING DEAD #127 (MR) $2.99 IMA 9 NEW 52 FUTURES END #1 [*] $2.99 DC 10 BATMAN ETERNAL #5 [*] $2.99 DC 11 BATMAN ETERNAL #6 [*] $2.99 DC 12 JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED #1 $3.99 DC 13 SUPERMAN DOOMED #1 (N52) $4.99 DC 14 HARLEY QUINN #6 $2.99 DC 15 BATMAN ETERNAL[...]

Amiculus: A Secret History. Travis Horseman, Writer/Creator. Giancarlo Caracuzzo, Artist. Kickstarter begins: Monday, June 2. Kickstarter ends: Saturday,

Pin-up artists include Steve Bryant (Athena Voltaire), Serena Guerra (Mice Templar), Jeff Manley (Punching the Clock), Tobias Neal (The Sword), and more! To celebrate being featured on Bleeding Cool, we have introduced a new incentive—the $22 RUMORSAURUS level! In addition to a signed print copy of The ComplEAT Dear Dinosaur, you will get a hand-drawn bookmark[...]

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. Again, we can see how DC Comics continue to grab marketshare with the success of their weekly titles, Batman Eternal again taking the top[...]

It became Bloodshot And The H.A.R.D. Corps. It just finished last week with issue 23. It will be replaced in months to come with the Armor Hunters:

Bleeding Cool has been following the pulping of last week's issue of El Jueves, the Spanish satirical magazine in the style of Britain's Private Eye, as

It was a rare configuration of comics fandom to have so many events happening at once, but as Ann Nocenti said to me "Why can't we have them all?" There is enough comic enthusiasm in the region to stretch that far, to be sure But for those who made it out to New York Comic[...]

75 years ago today, on June 15, 1939 according to the Library of Congress Copyright Office's date of publication records, Mystery Men Comics #1 hit the newsstands  It's the first appearance of the original Blue Beetle, drawn by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski, perhaps from a script by Will Eisner, and published by Fox Features Syndicate The[...]

Where he met Image Comics founder Rob Liefeld – Paramount at one point were going to make a Youngblood movie. Rob as been tweeting about the encounter. No denying super hero films are a massive business Funny considering John Goldwyn, President of Paramount, circa 2003, told me it was a fad — robertliefeld (@robertliefeld) June 13, 2014 "This is[...]

Ray Flook and Ale Bodden have been roaming the floor of Special Edition: NYC, having its second day today. But here's what they saw on Day One. Ray Flook

We've got a double shot of previews from Valiant for your Saturday night enjoyment. Matt Kindt and Stephen Segovia continue the Armor Hunters storyline in

The Lone Ranger #25 is the final issue in the series from Dynamite and writer Ande Parks gives us a page by page breakdown of the tale from his point of

Since I had time, and I wanted this story to be as good as it possibly could be, I signed up for Andy Schmidt's Comics Experience and ran the script through the workshop There, I got stellar notes from Jeff Parker, Alejandro Arbona (Valiant Comics/Casanova editor), and Nicole Boose (Iron Man Extremis/Millarworld editor)[...]

So, you may have read on Bleeding Cool, that Marvel sources told us that Marvel would be pulling the Fantastic Four title from the schedules for the

An ongoing online graphic novel written and painted by Jennie Gyllblad, supported by Patreon! It is being created right now and each page is published

I'm told of two more DC Comics editorial staff who won't be making the move from New York to Burbank – and, indeed, won't be spending any more time at DC Comics And both let DC Comics know yesterday. I'm told that newly promoted editor Katie Kubert of Batman, Detective Comics and Batman Eternal will be[...]

Peter Ernest Sailer, attending the NYC: Special Edition show for Bleeding Cool tells us, from the Archie panel, that big Archie boss Jonathan Goldwater

We ran a bunch of these earlier but this one seemed to have little play. Shame, it's possibly my favourite of the DC Bombshell variant covers, advertising

When we reported that CB Cebulski was taking on a new VP International Business Development & Brand Management position at Marvel Comics, it was suggested that his previous Talent Scout position would be taken by a Mini-CB. Which is probably a very insulting way to describe Marvel editorial Jeanine Schaefer, who has now taken that jet-setting role[...]

So, as well as other Marvel Comics rumours I received and ran recently, there is one that really seemed to cause a problem with the House Of Ideas when I ran it past them. Because someone very kindly told me what was rumoured to be the cause of the upcoming Death Of Wolverine, and at whose hands it would[...]

For a time in the nineties, it was the most critically acclaimed mainstream comic book. Think Hawkeye or Saga today. No one had a bad word, and anyone who

Two days ago, British retailers discovered that, yes, they would be able to order copies of Doctor Who comics from Titan after all And there was much rejoicing. Then yesterday, Forbidden Planet announced arranged exclusive covers And there was much grumbling. Titan Comics and Forbidden Planet, you see, are basically the same thing The belief from certain[...]

What pieces of your novel-writing process to you apply to the comics in terms of history, research, etc.? DL: I think a lot of the same conceptualizing goes into the historical novels and the historical comics.  In both media, I'm trying to convey a sense of time and place, and create conflicts and resolutions that are[...]

With the news that the Image Comics title Rat Queens had been optioned for a movie appearing in Variety, the speculators went to town, snapping up copies on sale on eBay for anything up to around $3.50 each. when three days ago, it would sell for $1.20 And then putting them back on eBay This listing with[...]

On until 7pm tonight, with guests including the aforementioned Chris Ware, Seth, Anouk Ricard, Jesse Moynihan, Anne Simon, Mattias Adolfsson, Takayo Akiyama, Sjoerd van Ree, Alexis Deacon, Katherina Manolessou and plenty of other local and international comic creators, and comics publishers, there's still time… The East Coast of the US may be full of comic[...]

They've been doing this sort of thing for years, such as this 1940s superhero strip for kids comic Oh Boy! by British comedian Bob Monkhouse.   Courtesy of the British Library's Comics Unmasked exhibition there…   Every now and then you see a comic book cover or scene that is meant to be interpreted in one way, but once you see[...]

The Toronto Star has looked at the case of Nicolas Cage and the stolen Action Comics #1… and talked to the detective in charge of the case First, Cage's home, He collected everything from rare cars to dinosaur fossils "It looked like an adult kid's playground, " Hrycyk says, noting that it included a big robot, two[...]

I spent this last weekend at the Phoenix Comic Con working my table and taking pictures of the cosplayers that passed by. I noticed that the bar on

Even for a vintage comics market in which six-figure sales have become increasingly more frequent, this one stands out: vintage comics seller and auction house ComicConnect has just sold an Incredible Hulk #1 CGC 9.2 for $320,000  That's a new record for this key 1962 Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and[...]