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The Morning After The Memo Before
Some senior comic book figures are rather happy that the news about DC Comics Editorial moving to Burbank happened when it did I'm told both the announcement and the meeting with staff was brought forward as a result of media interest in the news – which means for people not wanting to move coasts, they[...]
Thursday Runaround – My Little Pony Beats Sandman
THE GIGANTIC GRAPHIC NOVEL THAT WAS REALLY GOOD The Bleeding Cool Fan Award-nominated graphic novel The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins has found itself on a slightly more prestigious award list, The Waterstones Book The The Year, where it is up against Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes' Levels Of Life. It already beat out[...]
Swipe File: Beast And Beast Boy
This is the future Beast, as appearing in the current Battle Of The Atom series.   An now-asymmetrical version of a familiar figure from twenty-five years
Swipe File: Adam Hughes Vs Etsy
  A panel from Legionnaires #7 by Adam Hughes. And a "Pop Comic Art" painting being sold on Etsy for $400. In Swipe File we present two or more
Anatomy Of A Story
If I understand correctly, Bleeding Cool ran DC relocation story before employees had been informed Incredibly shitty thing for BC to do. — Ron Marz (@ronmarz) October 30, 2013 Over the weekend, Bleeding Cool became aware of a story regarding the planned wholesale move of DC Comics from Manhattan to Burbank Important if true, it signalled a[...]
Is That Faora… Or Ursa?
Evil Kryptonian and sidekick Faora (who, in the past, has also been known as Ursa), most recently seen in the Man Of Steel movie (now coming to DVD and
Comics Industry Reacts To DC Comics' Decision To Go West
Earlier today, Bleeding Cool broke the news that DC Comics was heading west, from Manhattan to Burbank. Forty minutes later, DC Comics sent a letter out to staff and media confirming the story – and with the side benefit also helping make sure no other media outlet needed to credit Bleeding Cool An unnamed ex-DC exec[...]
SCOOP: DC Comics To Move Lock, Stock To Burbank (Confirmation UPDATE)
During the reorganisation of DC Comics into DC Entertainment, much of the production side of the comics publisher was moved from New York to Burbank in California, home to its parent company Warner Bros There was much speculation at the time of an eventual move west for everyone but in the end, while digital and[...]
Sandman Overture Was Written For One Person. JH Williams III.
That initial description of Dream's journey seemed to jar, as if it were an early thought, subsequently rectified. That slightly unravelled in The Endless graphic anthology, showing us anthropomorphic representations of other planets in their earliest days, Krypton, Oa and Earth, playing with the DC Universe in which the comic was nominally set. Now Gaiman has pulled[...]
Tuesday Runaround – The Songs Of Dave McKean
It's all at Foyles Bookshop from 6.30pm tonight. CASE CLOSED A new way for storing and sending comic books through the mail, goes on Kickstarter. THE GREEN TEAM DC Comics has just passed the half a million mark for their Indiegogo fundraiser We Can Be Heroes this year. Batman: $152, 981 Superman: $132, 493 Justice League Indiegogo: $217, 932 Total: $503, 406 This doesn't[...]
Al Plastino, JFK, Superman, Original Art And Heritage Auctions
That's when someone from the Hero Initiative snapped a few pictures. We're all very sorry to hear that Al Plastino never got the art back from DC, but we all know the sad realities of the comic publishing business back in those days Heck, it's one of the reasons I am on the board of the[...]