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Slashfilm had it first before it came down. But the internet is a wonderful thing. The trailer to Kate Beckinsale and Gabriel Macht movie, Whiteout, based

Persepolis is not only a best selling graphic novel about a young woman growing up in a changing Iran, but was made into an Oscar-nominated feature film,

This is not an Obama situation, where copies of that Amazing Spider-Man issue were going for $200 a week after shipping. But it seems a day or two after

Image Comics sent out a very entertaining press release today. In the wake of Marvel's decision to restrict solicitation information for comic books in

The Human Target is a television series based on the DC Comic series, in which Christopher Chance impersonates people being targeted, or under threat. The

Bob Greenberger was a senior editor, working for DC Comics' Collected Edition department. At the beginning of 2006, Bob was reportedly let go over an

Well, I think it's official. Captain America #600 did not receive the kind of media coverage that the death of Captain America, the death of Batman or the

INT. AMERICAN MILITARY BASE A gruff American colonel, probably someone we've seen in 24, shouts at an underling. GRUFF AMERICAN COLONEL Get me the

A number of people received the following e-mail this morninmg from ex-Publisher of Marvel Comics, multi-millionaire and head of 360EP, Bill Jemas. He

A friend of mine runs the FryingPanFire blog, a news journalist reporting on stories that often get hidden in the current 24 hour news cycles. Yesterday I

Last week, casaldi80 on the BleedingCool forums posted that he had a copy of the much sought after Captain America #600. Yesterday he posted a review. I

I love the French. Every last one of them. From the tip of their berets to the edge of their thin unrolled moustaches. Especially the women. Well, fresh

I write and draw editorial cartoons for UK political blogger Guido Fawkes. I feel terribly smug, satirical and pompous while doing so, striking a blow

So what's the big deal about Captain America #600? Tomorrow, a number of stores in the USA and Canada will open their doors to customers clamouring for

In September, Marvel are launching the mini-series Spider-Man: The Clone Saga by Tom DeFalco, Howard Mackie and Todd Nauck. Once upon a time, in the

One of my favourite meta-textual comics moments from the last five years was the Superboy Prime Punching reality scene in Infinite Crisis, as it was used

When the Swipe Of The Week, also running similar pieces finished, I "swiped" it for Lying In The Gutters and continued to run a mixture I felt context defined it, it asked people to see if they could see similarities, whether cultural, thematic or at the lightbox – and even ran incredibly tangential images for[...]

The Bookseller reports that UK publisher Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins, has bought UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights to the Scott

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool exposed the new fake identity and scam details of Josh Hoopes, as an artist Ron Runstrom, using other people's art to gain

The Chinese govenment is hosting a national contest to find the best cartoons and comics that reflect Chinese culture. Running for six months, its open to

Some artists only discovered this when the work was published. After a number of Lying In the Gutters articles,  he went quiet for some time. He later emerged with a much more ambitious plan, posing simultaneously as A-list comics artist Art Adams and a fictitious agent Jeff Henzel, offering work at relatively low rates for such an[...]

Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen has been visiting the John Byrne Board. Just that very piece of news had me itching to start CTRL-C-CTRL-V-ing. I love

There must be something rather brave about listing a copy of a valuable silver age comic on eBay for one cent. I mean, you know that a copy of Amazing

Am I the only one who thinks that Alan Moore looks a bit like Ricky Gervais in The Office when he talks to camera? "I'm a friend first, magus second,

House To Astonish podcast are very nice to BleedingCool. But some other sites have stories as well, youknow. The BBC looks at Yorkshire-based comic

Sometime I want to take the New! Improved! Scans_Daily and kiss it on the forehead. Before working myself slowly downwards. They recently commented on the

Warren Ellis used to bemoan the grip the superhero comic book had on much of the commercial comic industry, comparing it to the hypothetical situation

Today, a court in Singapore sentenced the fifty year old Ong Kian Cheong and his forty-six year old wife, Dorothy Chan Hien Leng for distributing a series

The events of 11th September 2001 have inspired a number of American comic books. Some aimed at raising money and awareness, others reflecting how that

Tomorrow, the biggest comic shop in the UK, Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenue, London, is having a signing with Jim Mahfood and Scott C, to celebrate