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Bleeding Cool has been covering the rumour that Marvel Comics has been ordered by its executives to downplay the Fantastic Four comic ahead of the upcoming movie. Whether it's sketch card artists or Mondo Poster makers, the FF and their related characters such as Galactus and the Skrulls are off limits to all sorts of folk. Well,[...]

Italian comics publisher Bonelli recently published a comic about the life of the artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, entitled Kill Caravaggio which

Just to keep his hand in. Well, now Panini Comics Italia is doing a portfolio collecting ten of them at 44.5 x 29.5 cm (11.6 x 17.5 inches), only for certain comics shops that buy into their All-New Marvel NOW! promotional incentive. Cover price? $87 plus shupping from Italy… if you can find them.         [...]

From May to June, with help from international publishers such as Boom! Studios, First Second and Self Made Hero, Italian graphic novel publisher BAO held

Comics & Games – Hemet, CA Gen X Comics – Bedford, TX Silver Snail – Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario in Canada The Toonseum – Pittsburgh, PA Alter Ego Comics – Bellevue, WA eXpert Comics – Montreal and Ville LaSalle, Quebec in Canada Asylum Comics – El Paso, TX Hypno Comics – Ventura, CA Star Port – Lynchburg, VA Heroes Landing – Clermont, FL Comics Mexico[...]

It has been noted that if you meet Alan Moore in Northampton, he is more than likely to take you to an Italian restaurant of his favour. Well, maybe they

I taught composition at the Conservatory – in Italy, is the highest school grade for musical studies – for several years Often, some books that try to teach you how compose music are boring Others are very boring I felt my students were in need of something special Something new And so I imagined Herr[...]

When Disney bought Marvel, there was much speculation that the Italian comic market, one of the few in which Disney actually published comic books

Panini Comics Italy are commissioning Paul Chadwick to draw brand new covers for the new Italian editions of Concrete. Concrete is a particular favourite pleasure of mine Now, if only they can persuade Paul to create a couple of new Concrete stories for them, which they can then translate into English… Panini Comics Italy are commissioning[...]

Is it an approved political campaign? Is it completely supporter-created piece of social media? Or somehwre inbetween? Supporters of Italian political

So there's a bunch of Disney comics on Comixology now. There are different sections, and for the traditional Disney comic material, with the exception of two Epic Mickey books written by Peter David, it appears to be material generated by Disney Italy. Disney comic books have always been popular in Italy and have created a mini-industry devited[...]

Chris Thompson writes for Bleeding Cool; My love affair with Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese really took hold on my most recent trip to Italy Although beloved by the French, Pratt was an Italian who spent his formative years in Venice There are numerous locations from Corto Maltese spread throughout the city, along with guidebooks to help[...]

On the left is Jim Lee's Batman. On The right is Paola Di Clement's Nathan Naver, a popular Italian comic book. It has caused quite the stir, but could

A couple of years ago I went to the Treviso Comics Festival in Italy I ended up spending a very pleasant time with some very pleasant comics creators, followed by a day in Venice with the good lady wife It was the closest thing I've had to a holiday in some time, and a very[...]

Okay, this is quite funny. Bleeding Cool has previously reported on the European comic book situation regarding the licensing of Marvel titles. Panini has a Europe-wide licensing agreement but the purchase of Marvel by Disney made some fear that this may challenge this deal. Especially in Italy, a country in which Disney still has a strong publishing presence[...]

This year, Sergio Bonelli, one of the most influential people in the comics industry, passed away. But his studio has kept going. In 2011, Sergio Bonelli

Bleeding Cool recently reported that Sergio Bonelli Editore was to publish a brand new ongoing series, Saguaro, something it hasn't done for many years.

Written by Disney Comics Italy writer Bruno Enna, it will tell the story of a federal agent who looks after Native American reservations Set in the seventies, the comic is named after a southern Arizonan cactus The first arc will be drawn by Fabio Valdambrin. For a company that has certainly published a fair few traditional[...]

But he would write many Tex stories in the seventies under his real name and would become editor, then chairman of one of Italy's major comics publishers, CEPIM, which would be renamed in honour of him as Sergio Bonelli Editore The publisher who would publish not only Mister No and Tex but also Dylan Dog[...]

Is it something they said? Last week Bleeding Cool reported how El Catalogo had beaten Planeta De Agostini, Spanish and Italian comics publisher, to the

"From The Joker hardcover" Bleeding Cool understands that creator Lee Bermejo has called for the latest Italian print run of the recent Lex Luthor: Man of Steel collection to be withdrawn from sale. He told Comicus that he wrote a biography for himself for The Joker that quoted Daniel Day Lewis in the movie There Will Be[...]

The best selling comics character in an Italy is a cowboy named Tex Willer With 600 issues under his belt, over fifty years, each 120 pages long, that a lot of comics. But until now, every single issue apart from the 100th, 200th etc anniversary issues, has been in black and white. This year, publisher Bonelli Comics[...]

In many case you'll be paying less for shipping than if you actually lived in Italy. UPDATE: In a twist, a number of French consumers say that when they find it hard to get dscounts at Amazon.fr, because of government laws about disounting literature, they are buying French volumes from Amazon.it in droves, with big discounts[...]

Next weekend, the good lady wife and myself are being flown out to attend the Treviso Comic Festival in Italy Just north of Venice (which is why we'll be staying an extra day), it's will take over the town, from a comics market in the Chamber Of Commerce to nine separate exhibitions or original arts[...]