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What to get this week at the shop? Well, you have six options from Dynamite including the first issue of The Blood Queen, the last issue of Ash And The

The Grand Comics Fest in Brooklyn is a thing to behold for many reasons: it's not an event that draws thousands of fans or has hundreds of comics creators (and God forbid any media movie or video game types), and yet it says a lot about comics and how to ensure the medium's longevity in[...]

Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. [audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/The-Orbiting-Pod-Episode-153.mp3] They say: Welcome to Episode 153 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we reactivate our tastebuds with Chew/Revival, take root with Trees #1, make an appointment with Doctor Spektor #1, take a peek under the hood with C.O.W.L[...]

Chris Thompson, presenter of the Pop Culture Hounding podcasts that appear on Bleeding Cool, also works at Orbital Comics in London. And his keenness for the work of Ian Churchill has even him given a very special honour in tomorrow's final issue of Revenge by Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill. In which Griffen gatecrashes a rather important[...]

What would you say to the casual comics reader or non-gamer to steer them toward this read? JZ: When I came on board Pathfinder I made it clear to Dynamite and Paizo that I wanted to create a comic fans and new readers could both enjoy Everything you need to know is included so that fantasy[...]

What more could you bring to a book that already has Mike Costa's guiding hand deciding to turn a whole mythological epic into a detective story and one

Star Mage from IDW arrives in its third issue this week, written by science fictionally-immersed prose writer turned comics crafter JC De La Torre In fact, he's so immersed in sci-fi that he runs his own sci-fi themed podcast and has a TARDIS in his living room Star Mage debuted to a warm reception and[...]

Did Rich have enough content to update so frequently? What other co-conspirators might join him? Would Rich continue the ridiculous rumor of the year columns? Well, over the last five years we've learned that Rich is a blogging and gossip uncovering machine and that, yeah, the Annual Rumor Awards were here to stay. Disney to Buy[...]

Bleeding Cool has been publishing a number of articles about whatever it is that DC Comics are putting together in advance to cover the time they are spending moving across the country. We're calling it The Band-Aid It'll do for now. And millimetre by millimetre as we begin to peel it off, we're discovering more[...]

It's no secret that Lumberjanes is one of Boom's hottest titles right now, is the envy of certain rival publishers who have talked to me, has sold over

Bleeding Cool has learned that tomorrow Viz Media will be announcing that they will be distributing a number of high profile manga titles through digital

It's that time again, time for some 2000AD goodness previewed before the release of Prog 1885 this Wednesday. This week's issue features Judge Dredd:

Here are fourteen of the upcoming Batman 75th Anniversary Variant Covers shipping from DC Comics in June… and starting with one, in mid production, that you might not have seen anywhere else yet. Green Lantern #33 by Ethan Van Sciver Justice League #33 by Darwyn Cooke Justice League Dark #33 by Kelley Jones Action Comics #33 by Kevin Nowlan Detective[...]

The book was republished in 1986 by Kitchen Sink with an introduction from Art Spielgman in a deluxe format but has been out of print since. Well, now it appears that Dark Horse Comics are putting it back in print, listing Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book for December. A perfect Christmas present My hints begin now.     [...]

Our own Jim Kuhoric is the writer on the new Six Million Dollar Man series for Dynamite and we've interviewed him and looked at his writer's commentary, I thought it we turn the spotlight onto the other half of the team, Juan Antonio Ramirez who is handling the art duties for Season Six. BLEEDING COOL: How[...]

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. They say: Our subscribers are the best subscribers in the world! Yes, I'm talking about you! Thanks for[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode92.mp3] After last week's chat with Kyle Higgins (which you can still listen to here), this time around I team-up with the dynamic duo of Sina Grace and Daniel Freedman to discuss their series Burn The Orphanage: Reign of Terror from Image Comics. Sina, Daniel & I talk about how they first met, what Burn[...]

The New York Comic Fest is coming to the West Chester County Center in White Plains, New York, this Saturday for a one-day only event and this its first outing as a convention, run by the same folks who have brought Asbury Park Comic Con to New Jersey for three years running. They describe their mission[...]

By Shawn Perry and Victor de Leon It may have been over a week ago but the sights and sounds of Hartford Comic-Con are still fresh in my mind,

    Saga #19 from Image Comics is written by Brian K Vaughan, with art by Fiona Staples. Christine Marie Vinciquarra is a freelance writer and aspiring author of young adult literature She has a deep passion for all things creative, and enjoys blogging & vlogging about the process of writing, creativity, and imagination She is currently working[...]

With the release last week of Vampirella #1 by Nancy Collins and Patrick Berkenkotter, there is a buzz building about the character again, so much so that

One of the most engaging things about this series is the realistic touches in human behavior and reaction that speaks to life in the 21st century so clearly while using equal realism to depict how life would actually be walking among terrifyingly powerful god-like beings with their own agendas. The first two issues of the new[...]

The Marvel 75th Anniversary Magazine gets an Alex Ross Avengers cover... and a rare Alex Ross X-Men cover! Not a Fantastic Four cover though, obviously.

This weekend, I went to the British Library in London to see Dave McKean sing and play the piano. To most he is an artist, whose work is often associated with the comics industry His most prominent and widely seen pieces right now are the covers to Sandman Overture Others will remember the graphic novel he[...]

Wednesday, June 11th Escape Pod Comics at 302 Main Street in Huntington, Long Island, will host an in-store signing for Fabrice Sapolsky from 6 to 9PM They say: "The creator of Spider-Man Noir will be in the store, signing copies of his new Image book, One Hit Wonder! He will also have special edition ash-cans of[...]

So I'm calling it the DC Band-Aid. A large number of DC Comics being prepared in advance to run for two months in April and May 2015 to cover the move of the DC Comics offices from New York to Burbank. It was going to be headed up by ex-Marvel Editor In Chief Tom DeFalco[...]

Currently the case between Jack Kirby and Marvel Comics over the rights to X-Men, Hulk, Avengers, Fantastic Four and more is under review by the Supreme Court and could have massive ramifications for the whole creative community in the USA regarding copyright law and the definition of work-for-hire. Imagine, say, if the Supreme Court decides, based on the Jack[...]

This is what the Lakes International Comic Art Festival looked like last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1P7k8o1dvc The next one will be upon us

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 keeness you bring to your passion. And again, Batman Eternal is back at the top, beating out Marvel's event title Original Sin To date, five issues of the series so[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLKerjcMyw[/youtube] Randy Myers of Collectors Corner returns to Bleeding Cool with a look at his documentary for Free Comic Book Day 2014. Free Comic Book Day at Collectors Corner this year was even smoother and more exciting than last year, with our first fan David  lining up at 4pm on Thursday afternoon.By 1pm over fifty plus  people were[...]