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How dare you. Dear Image Comics: Thank you for rehiring my soon to be ex husband on a new project, after he did his best to wreck the ship that was the beautiful comic Rat Queens He was notoriously late, due to his boozing and philandering Never mind the fact that he blamed his chronic lateness[...]

Axcend is a new superhero series by Shane Davis and Michelle Deleck publiched by Image Comics, selling itself as a teen drama, living with the death of a loved one, gaming, school, poor parental relationships in a world with a slightly higher tech level An entertaining comic, certainly, but not one that has set the world[...]

A look through this week's comics what gems will be found? What stinkers? What... thoughts? And will an impending Hallowe'en give me a heat oppressed

In one week we see the launch of Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare, Art Ops, Sklylanders Superchargers, Black Magick, Angela: Queen Of Hel, Doctor Strange, Howling Commandoes Of SHIELD, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Self Storage, Cyrus Perkins And  Haunted Taxi Cab, Webwitch, Coming Of Age, Henchgirl and Welcome To Showside. And in two weeks, Call Of Duty Black[...]

Entering the comic industry during one of its most creative bankrupt periods and places (hell, he wrote the Spider-Man Unlimited 1/2 Wizard Magazine giveaway), he rose in prominence at Image Comics, taking the Publisher position And took about transforming what was seen at the time as a fading from early prominence, into the creative industry powerhouse it[...]

Here you go folks…. Image Comics is starting 2016 off with a bang, with the debut of Simon Spurrier & Ryan Kelly's CRY HAVOC, Joe Kelly & Max Fiumara's FOUR EYES: HEARTS OF FIRE, Ted McKeever's PENCIL HEAD, Brandon Graham & Giannis Milonogiannis's PROPHET EARTH WAR, and Meredith Gran's OCTOPUS PIE! In addition to all this, you're[...]

Cry Havoc, a gritty new fantasy military noir comic published by Image Comics. And oh look, Crossed +100's creator Alan Moore has something to say about it.   "The werewolves of London are chihuahuas compared with the hardier breeds we have out here in the regions With Cry Havoc Si Spurrier, Ryan Kelly and their ingenious colour and[...]

By Ale Bodden Image Comics presented an all-star panel at NYCC featuring Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Paper Girls), Leila del Duca and Joe Keating (Shutter), and Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn (Alex + Ada) It rolled in interview format ranging from creative process, to thought process while creating, and all the communication, trust, and[...]

Ales Kot has brought an end to his Image comic book title Material, with an eye to transforming it into a periodical graphic novel He tweeted… https://twitter.com/ales_kot/status/654401846702837760 https://twitter.com/ales_kot/status/654403538349518848 https://twitter.com/ales_kot/status/654707266659028993 https://twitter.com/ales_kot/status/655482493575938048 Here are the three which will be unpublished… for now. Material #5 (W) Alex Kot (A) Will Tempest (CA) Tom Muller Porn! Was due to be published 28th October. Material #6 (W) Alex Kot (A) Will[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes, Hey Fandom! We all survived last week's onslaught of great comics, and are ready for more! This

By Madeline Ricchiuto Jason Latour, Bob Fingerman, Wes Craig, Matt Wilson, and Shane Davis held the Image: Where Creators Own Craft panel on Sunday at NYCC 2015 Matt Wilson talked about his coloring process, Bob Fingerman discussed his overlapped-lettering choices as well as the coloring on Minimum Wage, Shane Davis discussed his art on Axcend and the[...]

Image Comics, comiXology and Amazon announced today an expanded and renewed distribution agreement to sell Image Comics' digital comics and graphic novels across the comiXology platform and expand the distribution of their library to the Amazon's Kindle Store. With the announcement 5,500 new Image Comics titles make their debut in the Kindle Store including The Walking[...]

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to

Tommy Patterson talks through his procedural work for Citizen Jack, the upcoming comic from Image Comics written by Sam Humphries… I'l going to explain my process and how I decided to do a complete overhaul of my style. Citizen Jack is a 180 from what I was doing on Game of Thrones[...]

Image Comics have announced the winners of the #BrimperSketch contest, taking the second printing of Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's Sex Criminals #11 and transforming it…. "Rainbow Faces" took first place in the contest with "Buscemi Faces" in second place and "Brimpception Redux" in third. "RAINBOW FACES is the winner!" Zdarsky declared "It subverts your expectations around 'faces'[...]

UPDATE: DC Comics just showed off this Dark Knight III variant cover by Dave Gibbons… The original piece runs below: We're not sure, from this photo, if DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio totally wants to be at the Baltimore Retailer Summit… Marvel's David Gabriel was pushing the success of attracting new customers for retailers with Star Wars – but also Squirrel[...]

Over the last month Joe Infurnari has created a number of sketch covers. One of them is a Walking Dead cover with a certain Republican candidate losing

We talked to Skottie Young about his new comic book I Hate Fairyland (with the even ruder alternative title below) when it was announced – a good reason to catch up! Well here's your chance to preview the comic book, as it's Final Order Cut-Off day for the book, published by Image Comics, today[...]

But here's the thing – that level of profit from singles? That's a very successful book. I mean, most Image titles won't hit those levels The A list books make waaaaaay more than that per issue, but most books won't So it's still fairly rare air. So there's that aspect of it There's also opportunity cost, potentially,[...]

Long-time readers of Bleeding Cool may recall a number of articles about the comic book Ultrasylvania, self published through Kickstarter. Well the creative team's latest book is bypassing such activities and going straight to Image Comics for their next book, just announced for December, Black Jack Ketchum. No Image Expo announcement, no pre-solicit piece arranged with Entertainment[...]

Wilfredo Torres, the artist on Mark Millar and Frank Quitely's Jupiter's Circle has been sharing some designs... and one looks rather familiar. Another

If you are looking forward to Paper Girls #1 by Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang from Image, it will be down to their reputation, the images and the solicitation copy below. For issue 1, SAGA writer BRIAN K VAUGHAN launches a brand-new ONGOING SERIES with superstar Wonder Woman artist CLIFF CHIANG! In the early hours after Halloween[...]

So here's a look at the entire contents of this year's CBLDF Liberty Annual coming out from Image Comics, with contributors from Art Spiegelman to Eric Powell to Evan Dorkin. And here we get to look at three of them, first from Art Spiegelman. A Robot Race War by EJ Su… A centerfold by Tony Shasteen… And a Vietnam Archie[...]

Marc Silvestri is a fan-favorite artist, Image co-founder, Top Cow founder, writer, creator and likely the second tallest person in comics (after Dark Horse's MIke Richardson) He created Witchblade, The Darkness, Cyberforce and many other iconic characters. So what is he working on? Whatever it is must be a long project and he's teasing the hell[...]

All these titles have sold out at Diamond Comic Distributors and have gone to second printings as a result… Rick & Morty #4 from Oni Press, due 7th October. We Stand On Guard #1 from Image Comics, due 7th October. Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Shield #1 from Marvel Comics, due 14th October All these titles have sold out at[...]

But it is a remarkable achievement, with Jamie McKelvie drawing the new Phonogram series, for him to get another issue of the series out with his name on the artist credit. And all power to Matthew Wilson, for his rejigged colour that helps giving the whole thing some kind of a cohesiveness. Because almost every image in this issue, aside (I think) from[...]

Lots of comics are doing their best impersonations of other comics today... The Wicked + The Divine starts to resemble Warren Ellis' Hellblazer.... So

Dropping the hyphen, from Image Comics and scheduled for January Available for order here in the US and here in the UK. And here's the solicit text… In the future, you become famous In the future, you sell your product In the future, when there's nowhere else to go, you sign up for Antistar[...]

Superman: Earth One artist Shane Davis is launching a creator-owned series called Axcend through Image I got a chance to talk with the artist about doing creator-owned work as well as taking on the writing chores for the new series and working with his wife, artist Michelle Delecki. DAN WICKLINE: Let's start off with the obvious question:[...]

Stjepan Sejic's Switch is a teenage remake of Witchblade, originally published as fanfiction online, as Twitch, but now collected by the Witchblade publisher Top Cow and put out through Image Comics. Available in print on October 14th, here's a page-by-page look at the first 22 pages of the double-sized first issue, plus many extras…. Stjepan Sejic's[...]