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Ken Wong will be bringing a new book to MoCCA Fest this weekend in New York entitled in long-form: Bonetti's Defense: I Know Something You Don't Know

Rounding out our MoCCA Fest debuts tonight appearing this weekend in New York from Hang Dai Studios in Brooklyn, we have The Vagabonds #4 from Josh

MoCCA Fest is coming up this weekend in New York City, so bring on the new comics, and here at Bleeding Cool we've gotten our hands on some dandy

As many of the comics community members know, Seth Kushner has been down but certainly not out as he has with great tenacity survived nearly a year long

Space Riders arrives this week from Black Mask Studios and since the original release art for the book, it's been clear that we have plenty of love for

Bleeding Cool contributor, Olly MacNamee, takes a look at the comic book scene in the UK and beyond in this monthly review: This Month’s Reviews: Defiant:

By Peter G. In 2014, people gathered in Orland Park, Illinois, for DanCon, an independent comic convention that focused on local comic creators. But it

I rarely do any illustration work apart from the occasional commission piece. HMS: You've worked within some art and indie comics publishing, haven't you? What do you think the pros and cons of that world can be? RT: The pros are that you can work with complete freedom, there's very little editing of your ideas going on[...]

By Olly MacNamee FutureQuake No. 26 Publisher: Future Quake Press Writer: Various Artist: Various Editors: Dave Evans, Richard Clements Timing can be

By Michele Brittany, a West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent Most people know of “OC” as the center of decadence and housewives, but there are other,

By Chris Thompson With Sepideh Jodeyri & Miss Lasko-Gross… After last week’s chat with Dave Gibbons (which you can still listen to here), this time I

By Patrick McAleer There was an art-form that reached its zenith in the 1980’s and early 90’s before it’s inexorable decline in the face of a drive for

By Nikolai Fomich    For anyone who knows Philadelphia, the heart of our city is West Philly, and in the past five years a new beat has been added to this

By Joe Glass Mike Garley is back again with another creation to share on the UK Indie comics' scene, once again in the horror genre, but with a very different feel. The Samurai Slasher starts with a story that is very reminiscent of 1980s style teen-slasher films, with all the usual tropes: dislikeable lead characters, various social[...]

Shutter, from what I’ve been able to see, has been a very popular comic and well-received among the creative-minded and those whose taste I value

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent I had the pleasure of meeting Jacob Semahn at Phat Con (Orange, California) last month. At his

Independent publisher Retrofit Comics, now entering its 3rd year, announced their official 2015 line recently, including twelve comic books, graphic

By Olly MacNamee Having successfully Kickstarted this dream project and with the first four issues of a planned 6 issue initial run under his belt, writer

When a reader takes the time to tell me how much the comic means to them and sharing their story, that means the absolute world to me. Now, to find the comic listed on Comixology's Top 25 of indie comics, populated by a wide, diverse range of incredibly talented creators, making incredible, broad, and inclusive comics…honestly,[...]

Their goal was to keep the "personal" element in indie comics to develop readership. Hang Dai Editions has announced their 2015 slate of releases this week, and also that they will be teaming up with Alternative Comics for distribution and some publishing. Alternative Comics publisher, Marc Arsenault says regarding the collaboration: I'm very excited to welcome Hang Dai[...]

By Sammie Rice Greetings, readers! This article is for all the self-proclaimed comic book nerds out there! If you haven't heard of Comic Bento yet, then

By Jemal Flores The 3rd Annual Black Comic Book Festival took place this past weekend, at The Schomburg Center in Harlem New York. The two day event is a

Bleeding Cool received a strangely urgent missive tonight in the wake of all of the Big Two announcements that undermined the stability of all fictional

I had heard about the upcoming Black Mask Studios book, We Can Never Go Home, possibly further back than most people when it was still pre-pitch, I

By Josh Hechinger Welcome once more to From Strip to Script, where I take a shot at reverse-engineering a script from a finished page of someone else’s

Bleeding Cool welcomes back We Be Geeks, hosting a variety of guests and covering a wide range of geek topics. The force was definitely strong with the We

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent You have come up with a fantastic comic book idea (or some other product equally cool), but

By Shawn Perry Sup Bleeders! The past year has no doubt been one of the best for indie comics and not just for big-name publishers like Image Comics and Dynamite Entertainment but small publishers as well! As we look towards the New Year it is a fact worth celebrating that we live in a time where decades-old[...]

Charles, aka "Chuck" Forsman runs indie imprint and distributor Oily Comics, as well as the creator of Ignatz award-winning Snake Oil and graphic novel

Hang Dai Editions, the collective publication label of several members of Hang Dai Studios in Gowanus, Brooklyn, announced today that the successfully Kickstarted graphic novel anthology comprised of the semi-autobio writings of Seth Kushner and the work of 22 indie comics artists, Schmuck would be going beyond its Kickstarter goal by reaching print distribution in[...]