covers Archives

Well, it worked for Walking Dead #100. The first issue of the Marvel NOW! relaunch, Uncanny Avengers #1 will have twelve covers to choose from. The original John Cassaday cover, an Adi Granov cover, a Daniel Acuna cover,  three more yet to be assigned including another sketch cover, an Avengers cover, an X-Men cover, a blank variant,[...]

The rest are gone from the warehouses, and the only copies of the other covers available right now will be in the large trucks shipping them around the country… Shops are opening at midnight on Tuesday night to sell Walking Dead #100 Ssalefish Comics in Winston Salem, NC, will be among them, and those who bring[...]

No, I didn't realise there were fifteen covers either But here they are, courtesy of publisher Eric Stephenson And published next week, just in time for Comic Con… No, I didn't realise there were fifteen covers either But here they are, courtesy of publisher Eric Stephenson And published next week, just in time for Comic[...]

DC Comics are releasing a series of blank variant cover variants of a number of prominent comics, one each month from August until next July, each one raising money for the We Can Be Heroes campaign. They will all have the cover banner that ran on the regular covers when the campaign to benefit those living[...]

Bleeding Cool understands that three of the eight traditionally distributed covers for The Walking Dead #100 have sold out. The covers by Todd McFarlane, Sean Phillips and Ryan Ottley have all had their print runs fully allocated to retailers and no more orders will be accepted. I understand that even with pre-orders of around 330,000 from[...]

Newsprint, including the covers Which didn't make for the best reproduction, especually the colour covers. Steve Cook used to work for 2000AD And he has a lot of the original production material As he tells Bleeding Cool, "All this stuff was about to be binned by the archives guy when Fleetway were moving and luckily I[...]

Velocity Comics in Richmond, VA are organising an art auction benefit for Kerry Talbott, a local comic book artist and cartoonist who was diagnosed with brain cancer two years ago after being let go from his twenty year year career as staff illustrator for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. They are selling a pile of sketched Marvel blank[...]

Visually it's rather faithful to earlier versions, while the writing gives us a hard pulp take on the character. But what if The Shadow could look like anything? Dynamite have prepared a series of hand sketched covers by Alex Ross and Jae Lee, some of which have been going for $2000 and $800 a piece, and arrived[...]

Retailers could get one of these Alex Ross hand sketched covers for The Shadow for every 250 issues of The Shadow #1 they ordered from Dynamite Entertainment. One retailer has already sold his for $2000, plans to sell a Jae Lee sketch cover for $800, and any of the copies he ordered that he doesn't sell,[...]

Bleeding Cool has run a number of articles showing how Marvel is encouraging retailers to order more and more of their Avengers Vs X-Men series, to the extent that for the first issue they are all but giving it away, while for subsequent issues, they are using variant covers to keep the orders high through[...]

It's time for the big ComicsPro meet in Dallas this weekend. And publishers will be giving away free swag to retailers that attend. This includes

Here are covers for issue 7, issue 6 and the previous 0.           Batwoman artist Amy Reeder has been breaking down some of her upcoming cover for the series, from sketches to colours, on her Facebook page Here are covers for issue 7, issue 6 and the previous 0.           Batwoman artist Amy Reeder has been breaking[...]

Brian Hibbs of Comix Experience in San Francisco, California is not a fan of variant covers on comic books He doesn't sell them on the shelf, he only buys them by special order for customers who ask but somnetimes, without his say so, companies send them to him anyway. And he gives them to the Comic[...]

Here's a first look at two more X-Men history variant covers, Wolverine and Havok, from FF 3 and Journey Into Mystery 623 respectively, montaging through the ages. I miss Larry Stroman Havok, I really do. Here's a first look at two more X-Men history variant covers, Wolverine and Havok, from FF 3 and Journey Into Mystery[...]

With the eBay auction for the original art covers coming up in a week to benefit HERO, the charity that looks after comics creators in distress, why not have a look at the kind of comics you could be buying? We ran[...]

Solicited by Boundless Comics in the upcoming March Previews catalog, The Art Of Lady Death Volume One is a hardcover collecting over 500 pages of artwork

On the left, the original cover for American Vampire #8. With an untrustworthy fellow, deep forehead, scars on his face, protruding teeth, combover

Earlier today I ran the story that Marvel would be relaunching the Ultimate Comics titles with Foilogram enhancement covers, reminiscent of Marvel and many other publishers choices during the nineties, including Ghost Rider #15, the Fatal Atrractions crossover and Punisher War Journal#1. A few hours later Marvel put out a press release announcing the story, confirming[...]