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Bill Sienkiewicz, Jim Mahfood, Shawn Alexander will be creating a piece of Bernie Sanders art a Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles on Saturday evening, hosted by Kate Nash with Hal Helfer consuming everything in sight… And there are also Bill Sienkiewicz Bernie Sanders T-shirts for sale… will you be going? Let me know… [...]

Did you know that Bernie Sanders' campaign manager is a comic book store owner? Jeff Weavers, owns the comic shop Victory Comics, has been a regular Comic Con exhibitor, has a rather large personal collection and was one of the people who discovered the million dollar-plus Lost Valley Pedigree Collection. Which is quite handy when running an awareness raiser[...]

From Los Angeles' Craigslist… On May 29th Our Members Only Bdsm and Lifestyle Group will be hosting a Marvel VS DC themed party at an exclusive private 5000+ sqft Venue This is an amazing one of a kind monthly party where we combine the best elements from BDSM, Swinger/lifestyle, and Cosplay events to create the greatest[...]

During the follow up "Talk Back" discussion after WonderCon Sunday afternoon in Anaheim, California, the SDCC Blog is reporting that the announcement was made that WonderCon 2016 will be moving to Los Angeles Convention Center This is rumored not to be due to any particular dissatisfaction with the location, but because of renovation work on[...]

His wife Jeanine Schaefer also works as a comic book editor, over at at Marvel Comics. Schaefer was recently promoted to Talent Scout, replacing CB Cebulski in the role at the publisher, to much acclaim. I understand that, as part of the decision, Schaefer will be resigning from Marvel Comics and moving to Los Angeles with her husband. She has turned down an[...]

Michael McDermott writes for Bleeding Cool… I have it on very good authority that approximately 20% of the crowd at yesterday’s Infinity Guantleted Marvel

A comic book creator who wishes not to be named visited Frank & Son Collectibles, regarding the selling of artwork owned by creators without their

We'll see." I passed this note onto Yvette and encouraged her to get in touch with Jamie, and other artists, the thing she should have done initially, as opposed to deleting his messages, and all the ones that followed, from Facebook. After much back and forth with Bleeding Cool, Yvette finally admitted that she had bought the[...]

Neal Adams is appearing at Meltdown Comics on Saturday June 28th in Los Angeles. He will be showing a rough clip of his new animated comic, using CGI and based on the Blood series published by Dark Horse (and soon to be collected with a 3D lentucular cover of its own, DC-style) with a Q&A to follow. Then Adams[...]

Last week, we heard from retailer Dennis L Barger prophesising doom and gloom over Amazon buying ComiXology (as well as all those print pull list customer details that ComiXology has been harvesting all these years.) But not everyone is so much of a Negative Nancy. Ryan Liebowitz of Golden Apple Comics in Los Angeles has a very[...]

Tomorrow, at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, there will be a Dogeparty to explore the fiuture pf crypto currency And get free pizza. Meltdown Comics will also be the first comic store to accept Dogecoin as valid currency, and follows their move last month to be the first to accept Bitcoin. Tomorrow, at Meltdown Comics in Los[...]

So DC Comics is set to move its entire operation to Burbank, part of the Warner Bros studios. It should happen in April 2015. But there's one group of

Adi Tantimedh writes: So everyone is pretty much convinced that DC Comics moving its editorial offices out to California is a big game-changer in the

I'm looking at it right now.") As Bleeding Cool reported yesterday, today is DC-Day, the day when DC Comics staffers have to tell their bosses whether they are moving with the company and keeping their job, or getting a better (or worse) one, or taking a redundancy package in a year-and-a-bit's time. Well, Bleeding Cool thought we'd[...]

Buy One Get One ½ off on T-shirts, MtG M14 Fat Pack for $25, and an awesome Walking Dead Michonne Statue for $200. CALIFORNIA: Cool Cats Comics and Cards, Los Angeles In the spirit of giving thanks, we have decided that this year's Black Friday sale will be used to benefit a creator that many of us know[...]

Saw this on Marvel.com and figured it was a nice Thanksgiving day story to share. Jamie Alexander, the actress who portrayed Lady Sif in Thor: The Dark World spent the afternoon visiting patients at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles Alexander appeared in costume and spent time with dozens of kids, handing out signed DVDs and posters as[...]

If you are in and around the Los Angeles area this weekend… or more specifically just south, you could attend The Long Beach Comic & Horror Con on November 23rd and 24th at the Long Beach Convention Center. Some of the scheduled guests include: Ryan Benjamin, Tim Bradstreet, Amanda Conner, Basil Gogos, Gene Ha, Lance Henriksen, Tom Jane,[...]

Everyone seems to be having meetings today. Marvel have a large creative summit that they are flying people in for. People may be flying in for DC Comics

Wizard World may have cancelled their Los Angeles Comic Con But San Diego Comic Con are still keeping their options open, reupping their trademark registration for the title, last applied for in 2009 And sitting alongside their 2011 registered San Franscisco Comic Con Always handy to keep those options open when negotiating with the city[...]

I used to work with Arune Singh at Comic Book Resources when I had a column there. Then he got a job at Marvel in their press department, where he rose to Director of Communications at Marvel Entertainment. Well, at the end of the August, he's moving from New York to Los Angeles to take the position[...]

Industrial action at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach was tentatively settled earlier this week after an eight-day strike over outsourcing of labour and lack of contracts The ports were shut down after workers refused to cross a picket line. But one of the issues that might affect the comics industry this Christmas is[...]

I understand that small time comic book publisher Studio 407 are looking for a little help. As long as they don't have to pay for it... Here is their

Gregg Staples exhibition, Super Heroes At Home is being exhibited again at Chelsea Markets in New York. A series of photos taken by Gregg of people who

Brendon and me, on the British Airways flight to Los Angeles Don't I look patriotic? Doesn't Brendon look like a Tim Burton character? We'll be whizzing from there to San Diego for the show, and then back to LA for a couple of days if any West Coasters fancy meeting up after the madness of the[...]

The day before the Phoenix Comic Con, Phoenix baseball team the Diamondbacks played the Los Angeles Dodgers, and won But also had quite a lot of cosplay action to deal with… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ [...]

This is Assemble, a new show at Gallery 1988 on Melrose, Los Angeles, open until Sunday. Just in case any of Marvel's lawyers want to pop by Or their talent search guys Or rather, the Marvel Studios people who went along to opening night. A nice subtle piece of promotion, it seems. [...]

From November 30th until January 4th, Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman will be running five different shows in Metldown Comics' new gallery space at 7522 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles And exhibiting himself. This will include a new art exhibit opening on New Comics Day, every Wednesday from 6pm to 10pm. Basically, expect Kevin Eastman to spend a[...]

 But it would appear that there is a rather unusual and ambitious marketing campaign for X-Men: First Class in progress right now in the sky above Los Angeles: [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/caseymckinnon/status/75003095167414272"] photo by Michael Newman photo by Cherie Moniz photo by Seth Green photo by Robert Venditti [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQtRXAtjRnc[/youtube] [...]

The impact of this move will mean there will be no storage facility for comics and their like on the West Coast. Affected retailers will notice a change immediately in the new year, with January the fifth delivering the last shipment from Diamond Los Angeles The next week, all deliversies will come from their new, expanded[...]

Most hit it seems so far are stores who are supplied by Diamond's Los Angeles warehouse, who have received invoices for next week that show almost all DC titles missing, and a reduction in Marvel titles However I understand that Diamond and the publishers are doing what they can to rectify the situation. It's expected that[...]