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Josh Adams imagines the current attempts at distributor negotiation for Bleeding Cool... This week has been huge for traffic with a number of monster

In honour of the huge amount of Spanish readers Bleeding Cool received this week, we decided to release the entire Lying In The Gutters (apart from this bit, and the cartoon) in Spanish And not just through Google Translate either… thanks to David Aja, Ernesto Priego and Ignacio Alcuri. Los diez posteos de la semana 1[...]

According to current site statistics, this picture illustrates  the story that Bleeding Cool would be most interested to cover. Sadly it doesn't exist.

Just read on Bleeding Cool that my new Image book sold for $45 on ebay and I'm still typing the pitch! - Phil Hester on Twitter. Top Twenty Things You

Okay, right now I'm the one who feels like a zombie... Top Twenty Most Popular Posts Of The Week 1. Will Viz announce new Dragon Ball this week? Or

Be kind to them. For those intrigued by the site but unwilling to spend every moment pressing F5, subscribing to our Lying In The Gutters weekly e-mail gives you an instant access push to the most popular and/or intriguing articles of the week. Now, there's a lot of chatter about this week's interview with Eric Stephenson, publisher[...]

Welcome To Lying The Gutters, the weekly runaround the best and the rest of Bleeding Cool. So, what's been going on? Top Ten Stories Of The Week: 1.

Welcome to another week of Lying In The Gutters Let's kick off, shall we? Top Ten Posts Of The Week There was one big story this week The same one that started last week It dominated Bleeding Cool, was picked up by mainstream press and the implication will be felt today and tomorrow as publisher after publisher[...]

Top Ten Most Read Posts This Week: 1. Matchstick Middle Earth Not only that, this link to a matchstick museum showing a matchstick rendition of one of the

Trying something different with Lying In the Gutters Mostly cos I was so busy with stories, I missed doing last week's column So this week I'm listing a Top Twenty of the most read stories over the last two weeks I'll try and do a Top Ten every week If this goes down well… 1[...]

Four Things I Didn't Link To This Weekend But Should Have: 1. Neil Gaiman pwning Boing Boing. 2. Comics Alliance's Cerebus Valentines by Chris Murphy and

Back in the Lying In The Gutters days, I ran this swipe file, between the movie poster for Vantage Point, and a splash from Pulp Heroes by Victor Santos Could there be any relation to a scene in Lemar's new video for the song The Way Love Goes? In Swipe File we present two or more images[...]

Secret Avengers by Brubaker and Deodato Jr? I want more adjectives dammit! Avengers Academy won't be enough, I want Preppy Avengers Academy!! So what else

DC Vertigo follow through on Bleeding Cool reports about promoting Brian Wood, with pieces on the blog and placed on IGN and CBR. Who's next, place your

Last week was the biggest week in terms of traffic in Bleeding Cool's history. And thanks to links all round, it looks like this week has started off in a

While Marvel gave us Liefeld drawing Deadpool and a woman writing stories about women. There was plenty of marvellous Mark Millar media manipulation over Sam Raimi, Martin Scorsese and the Kick Ass controversy, some Bad Byrne Panels, a smidgen of Hellboy gambling, and the first turn of the wheel of a round table with many providers[...]

Well that's what I thought when I first found out the news. A few hours before DC announced it.I was all ready to ask DC Comics about it when they got in

So what have I been up to this week, as we swing round from two-thousnad-and-nine to twenty-ten? I had a look at Neil Gaiman's Statuesque short film, the

Indian artist Lalit Kumar Sharma. In March 2008, when I was writing for Lying In The Gutters, I printed these pages supposedly drawn for Ibrahim Amin by Hoopes before Hoopes disappeared Ibrahim paid Josh for those pages then heard nothing Well, the identity of the artist has been discovered, and it is unlikely that Lalit was[...]

A little report from a Lying In The Gutters back in May 2003 that not only were  comic books being scanned and uploaded by a team calling themselves comic book archivists that had 90% of all Marvel and DC comics books published to that date, but were updating with every published book by these companies[...]

SCOOP OF THE YEAR So what were the best Bleeding Cool/Lying In The Gutters scoops of the year? There were a lot to choose from The industry announcements such as Boom getting the Disney licences from Gemstone That stuff was happening with Marvelman before Marvel's actual announcement, and details of a competitive other bid[...]

I really get annoyed by bad Scottish accents in American comics. I'm not Scottish myself, but some of my best friends are. And I feel entitled to be

Okay, this is my preconception about Tales Of Wonderland: Red Queen and Escape From Wonderland #0, based on not reading the comic, but seeing covers from

This is a Conan comic through and through. Seriously, if you don't know any of the names, any of the figures in American politics, you can read it

This seems to be the new way to make a little money. Buy a four day pass to SanDiego for under $100. Sit on it for a month. Then, after it's been sold

Okay, so this book came out last week from Dynamite. But I couldn't get my hands on an advance of Zorro, so this will make do. And boy, does it make do.

Viking #1 was a comic that took a number of people by surprise, an untested team on a new creator-owned book about vikings, in a market where even the

Neill Cameron is a rather talented cartoonist of my acquaintance. Once we were going to work on a graphic novel called Political Creatures, the proofs of

Currently on BBC Radio 4, the League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss and Doctor Who novelist, writer and actor, is talking about the Target range of Doctor Who

"Building the destiny of a new world from Great Disaster to some kind of utopia, and then you can cut forward to Earth 51 Legion of SuperGods or something