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It has reached my ear that at Tuesday's editorial retreat, Marvel Comics' Senior Vice President of Talent Co-ordination, CB Cebulski informed the folks present that he will be leaving to assume a larger role in the Marvel/Disney organisation. The details are sketchy, right now But could he be moving out West where his choice of shirts[...]

Last month, Boom! did the business with The Woods, their highest launching original series from their core Studios imprint since Mark Waid's Irredeemable. The Woods has sold over 17,000 copies  with strong reorder activity. Yesterday, Boom! announced that they were launching a new action spy comic series called Butterfly under their Archaia imprint, written by screenwriter Arash Amel. But it's also co-written by Marguerite Bennett, who[...]

J Scott Campbell is working on a retailer exclusive cover for Rocket Raccoon #1, the upcoming funny animal comic by Skottie Young that will be outselling every other comic book in the direct market this July. But for this one, you'll have to talk to Midtown Comics in New York or Limited Edition Comix in the[...]

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! Advance reorders[...]

This is a cartoon created by Chad Porter in 2013 and published on DeviantArt. At the time he said, This has been a running gag in my head for some time

Expect a third soon. Following on the unexpected success of Dredd: Underbelly, this may prove a successful new business model for Rebellion, recreating 2000AD comics in US format – and just not telling anyone that's what you're doing. And, you know, using nicer paper. IDW's new fantasy sci-fi release V-Wars has also done pretty well[...]

X-Men will match If not exceed ASM2's domestic box office, meaning lots of eyeballs, but there are no toy tie-ins. The Fox shut out is real. —

The Baker Street Irregulars is a comic book by Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood, published by Hachette but now out of print. That hasn't put of its fans however, and the series has now been adapted into a Milwaukee stage play. In October, the Todd Wehr Theater will be putting on Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars, by[...]

Fat Jack's, a comic shop in Philly is celebrating their 38th anniversary this month with both a progressive sale on back issues and a visit by wrestling duo Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian. Now this duo has wrestled for WCW, WWE, TNA, ECW and Ring Of Honor over their 21 and 16 year careers… but recently[...]

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: This week is exciting! The art of Elektra had us drooling! The awkward familiarity of Eltingville Club had us in stitches! And getting to know The Watcher made us remember that we have[...]

Jonathan Evans (from JR Comics) was very pleased by the reaction their presence at BEA/Book Con received: In a word: overwhelming The first two days of the Expo were fantastic for us in terms of meeting librarians, teachers, booksellers, and people who have an industry interest in comic books and graphic novels And today (Book Con)[...]

With new comics out this week, Dan Abnett sits down and gives us a behind the scenes commentary on the last issue of his Battlestar Galactica run with issue #12… or is it his last? Battlestar Galactica #12  Issue twelve marks the end of my run (well, not really… just wait to see what Dynamite is about[...]

What better to pair the video game with than a graphic novel starring none other than the Glorkian Warrior himself? After following a rich career in indie comics, The Glorkian Warrior is Kochalka's first book with a traditional publisher (First: Second Books) Kochalka's traditional cartoony style and silly dialogue is prominent, making this graphic novel perfect[...]

As we heard from the Diamond Retailer Summit in Vegas two weeks ago, we are now getting some details and art from Archie Comics on their new Sabrina series. It will be written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and with art by Robert Hack The new series promises to show the teenaged-witch in a very different way, building[...]

I'm sure there were plenty more than 18 comics and graphic novels at Book Expo America at the Javits Center in New York last week, in fact I know there were hundreds, but these are the ones that I somehow managed to drag home by foot, train, and car back to New Jersey and believe[...]

She was born of darkness, but has an innate desire to protect humanity, something I will be exploring in some depth over the coming year. DA: Is there any danger that Vampirella both conforms to and reinforces the 'scantily clad' sexy female comic book character trope that folk outside the medium seize on as evidence that[...]

It was already a horror comic in many ways—I mean all those tight, enclosed spaces on the underwater research station in the first issue reminiscent of

Yesterday, we mentioned that the MangaStudio 5 programme was down to $17.99 on Amazon.com, well down from its original price of $79.99 and much loved by

Retailers have been asked to not sell the Rai #2 "pop-up mask" cover due to a manufacturing error. So instant collectible there, then. But the other

In comics and film (and most of all in toys) You won't be able to move without bumping into Rocket Raccoon soon. And in comic stores, that might be quite literally I understand that orders for Rocket Raccoon #1, the new comic from Mister Skottie Young that received such a strong showing for Free Comic Book[...]

But sadly, as Action Comics #31 reveals, no it's not enough Nowhere near enough As the world gets a dusting of a certain green cloud – no, not the one from Marvel's Inhumanity, but a permeation of the atmosphere of kryptonite, it affects Superman in an unexpected way But he's not the only Kryptonian exposed,[...]

And who he actually is. From the House of El… the symbol that stands for… what is it again? That's right. Earth 2 is published today by DC Comics and courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently exhibiting the Elephantmen work of Shaky Kane, with prints for sale. From Watchmen… And from the film [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3lsJmwNO40[/youtube] And from today's Earth 2…   And furtehr reading, including a[...]

A cover in bad taste, for example, might be defined as holding her head a little higher so that blood could be seen dripping from it and moving the body a little further over so that the neck of the body could be seen to be bloody." Kefauver:(doubtful) "You've got blood coming out of her mouth." Gaines:[...]

And comics news reporting sites become implicit in that market distortion every time we run them as a story. But hey ho, away we go In for a penny… Rai #1 is going to a third printing – the first sold out of 36,500, the second sold an additional 1,800 copies and the third will feature interior art by[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, I'm back with a stack of New Comics Now! First I talk about the end of our Free Comic Book May and I mention our bar expansion Indiegogo, then it's all Marvel, DC, and Image comics! Original Sin #3 was pretty intense, the last few[...]

In an unprecedented move... well it is... Dynamite has sent us extended previews (meaning 8 pages instead of 5) of every book they have coming out this

By Ale Bodden Book Expo America has finally ended and I have survived. I am quite a happy nerd girl right now. So... I got sick on the first day of the

Dynamite is going all in on their Creators Unleashed initiative and we've got an exclusive very early first look at pages from the second offering,

By Shawn Perry The city of Hartford, CT played host to its first-ever comic con this past weekend and the event was greeted with festive energy and passion from local fans of all ages…as some seriously awesome cosplayers. Fans of all ages came out in droves this past weekend for the first-ever Hartford Comic Con.  The two-day[...]

Skroce started in comics with Clive Barker's Ecto-Kid and has worked for Marvel Comics while story-boarding for the film industry Now he is coming back to comics and Doc Frankenstein is being collected for his first trade. Bleeding Cool: We're here to talk about the upcoming release of the Doc Frankenstein trade, so let's start with[...]