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It's a long way from writing short Moorcockian stories in seventies fanzines, to being Editor-in-Chief of Heavy Metal But in another way, it seems inevitable This must be Heavy Metal's biggest pre-SDCC reveal. Entertainment Weekly have the PR that Grant Morrison is the new Editor-in-Chief of Heavy Metal Magazine Look, here he is. The long running comic[...]

Mechanism by writer/artist Raffaele Ienco available in comic shops July 1st from Heavy Metal Comics. In the aftermath of an alien invasion a prototype military robot is rushed into the field before it's combat-ready, before its artificial mind has matured enough to understand chaotic human beings and the world around it Now attached to a group[...]

Coming July 1st from Heavy Metal, we have Mechanism, a new comic from Raffaele Ienco as both writer and artist It's part of the new line of comics published by Heavy Metal in the science fiction tradition and is creator-owned. Heavy Metal describe the book thus: When a prototype military robot is sent to the frontline of[...]

On Friday at ECCC, Heavy Metal Comics announced their first original series launch for their new regular comics line– Mechanism by writer/artist Raffaele Ienco available in comic shops July 1st… MECHANISM In the aftermath of an alien invasion a prototype military robot is rushed into the field before it's combat-ready, before its artificial mind has matured enough[...]

Even Daredevil's mentor was Stick… Splinter. AW: What modern books are you reading and getting into? KE: I have weird tastes and I still run Heavy Metal Magazine so a lot of the stuff I like to read is all the submissions for Heavy Metal I end up gravitating towards a lot European comics. I still buy Daredevil[...]

The newest issue of Heavy Metal hit stands this week and it features a new story called The 49th Key by former TV-Exec-turned-author Erica Lewis It seems that story has already gotten moving in Hollywood as Doctor Who, Torchwood and Arrow star John Barrowman has signed on to star in and executive produce the story[...]

This July, Titan Comics is debuting the first in a Lone Sloane masterpiece library series, The 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane by Heavy Metal artist Philippe Druillet The 72-page oversized hardcover book tells the tale of Lone Sloane, a troubled space traveler, wandering the universe 800 years after a catastrophic event He encounters space pirates,[...]

The long-running series Hoax Hunters, formerly of Image Comics, are making a degree of comics history in March when they appear as the first single-issue comic series published by Heavy Metal, as in Heavy Metal Magazine The creative team of Michael Moreci and Steve Seeley (writers), Christian DiBari (art), Mike Spicer (colors), and Jim Campbell[...]

He's going to be guest editing issue #271 of Heavy Metal magazine along with contributing to the issue and he has an art gallery show coming up This seemed like a good time to turn the artist spotlight on him. BLEEDING COOL: How did you get started drawing? FRANK FORTE: I Started by copying cartoons off the[...]

Asylum Press Publisher Frank Forte is going to be the guest editor for issue #271 of Heavy Metal Magazine and the plan is to make it a sci-fi/horror spectactular. In the issue Steve Mannion (Fearless Dawn) delivers a nod to Moebius in Prayer… a Fearless Dawn yarn, William Broad gives us Priests of the Black Death where an order of the Templars has[...]

According to Variety, Heavy Metal is trying to make a big splash with a few exclusives for Comic-Con. First up is a partnership with Mondo to create an exclusive art print by Swedish artist Kilian Eng based on the 'reboot" of the Heavy Metal movie This is available at the Mondo booth in limited quantities. Then second,[...]

We're picking up on late a little late but not too late. Blood Roots is a Heavy Metal history program hosted by Ian Christie (Author of Sound Of The Beast) Running since 2004, each week the show focuses on a different subgenre, band, movement, country or theme in metal, punk or heavy rock. This week they focus on the connection[...]

Each one thinks they've found the location of a forgotten world, home to fabulous treasures from a bygone age.  But to get there, they will have to deal with alien criminals, unthinkable environments … and each other. A veteran of many comics, such as Green Lantern, Heavy Metal, and Transmetropolitan, Matt Howarth has amazed the world[...]

Well that's a thing. Kevin Eastman bought the flailing but much loved Heavy Metal Magazine in the early nineties, best known for its adaptation of European comics featuring women without many clothes in dystopian wastelands, with his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles money. But now it's sold – though he will remain publisher and a minority investor in[...]

Each generation discovers it, interprets it, has it reinterpreted. But it might have once have been called something else. There was also a well known post-punk/heavy metal band, Killing Joke, big in the eighties DC Comics approached the band asking for permission to use the name and a deal was struck DC could use the name, if[...]

From the pages of Heavy Metal to the big screen, production on the Dravn film to begin in 2014. At Comic-Con, Dravnverse, LLC, announces preproduction will begin early next year on the first DRAVN movie, which has been in development for five years concurrently with the upcoming DRAVN graphic novel trilogy being produced by Stellar Labs[...]

Director Guillaume Lubrano has shared a few stills from the filming.

Heavy Metal Magazine are launching five new digital comics, out this week Why not take a peek? Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley's Melting Pot. [issuu width=420 height=263 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120806222424-edf494a1a0864d1a9bde5187b20be85c name=meltingpotsample username=richjohnston tag=bleedingcool unit=px v=2] Kevin Eastman, Eric Talbot, Tom Skulan and Simon Bisley's Roninbebop. [issuu width=420 height=317 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120806222308-c3ed9512ebc84da794310bc1d17bfce6 name=roninbebop_sample username=richjohnston tag=10%20preview unit=px v=2] Kevin Eastman and Mark Martin's Underwhere. [issuu width=420[...]

Dave Elliot is reviving A1 through Heavy Metal, and we're getting a sneak peek of the contents of the new Heavy Metal that will debut at San Diego Comic Con… STELLAR Labs new series CARPE DIEM that will be appearing in A1 as a regular strip. Alex Horley's Frankenstein's Monster in Hollow Earth to go with Sami[...]

We knew something like this was coming. Some of you may have fond memories of Monster Massacre, an Atomeka volume from Dave Elliott and Garry Leach that was full of Simon Bisley, Dougie Braithwaite, Simon Furman, Dave Gibbons, James O'Barr, Kevin O'Neill, Peter Snejbjerg and more. Well now it's back, courtesy of Heavy Metal Magazine, launching at[...]

The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse is Simon Bisley's new project for Heavy Metal with Michael Mendheim The first of three book, Helldiver, comes out in April and here's a rather rich look at some of the art, covering as it does Simon Bisley's common themes of Christian end time mythology, monstrous creatures and hot[...]

We've already seen a fairly epic trailer for Métal Hurlant Chronicles AKA Heavy Metal Chronicles, the TV adaptation of the horror and sci-fi anthology comic series of the same name, but here's a teaser trailer for the first and second episodes As we reported before, the comics are also being adapted into a feature film[...]

Here are three exclusive editions of comics being sold by Dave Elliott at San Diego Comic Con 2011. First up there's the Heavy Metal September issue, where the creators of Imaginary Friends Studio are filling the entire issue with their creations Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau provides this wraparound cover to wrap around the actual issue, manually He'll[...]

You may know him from drawing the first third of Chase Variant: One Shot Is All I Need from Image. But in Fenruary, Humanoids are publishing a full