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Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Little Nothings: My Shadow In The Distance Creators: Lewis Trondheim Publisher: NBM Available: Booth #1528 High concept: Collected from a popular comic blog and expanded with full color paintings, the vignettes featured in this series offer funny snippets from everyday life Each autobiographical sketch showcases a facet of daily life through[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Fat Tarino and Popbot Big Beautiful Book Creators: Ashley Wood Publisher: IDW Available: Booth #2643 High concept: The first  featuring the impossible to find art books UNO TARINO, DOS TARINO and TRES TARINO, all in one gorgeous hardcover, the second collects the long sold-out POPBOT Volumes 1 through 8. Format: Slipcased hardcover, 360 pages,[...]

With over 1,000 shows to choose from, there's got be something you wanna know! Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront 10:00-11:00 Comic-Con Film School 103: Working with Actors and a Crew— Day 3 of our course on micro-budget moviemaking deals with how to direct actors, organize a crew, and keep them all happy without[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Kinky & Cosy Creators: Nix Publisher: NBM Available: Booth #1528 High concept: Shocking! Disgusting! Meet the most dangerous twin girls in the universe! Their record of wrong doings, on purpose or not, will raise your hair on end A darkly subversive collection of cynical comics gags that is sweeping Europe[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Conspiracy Of The Planet Of The Apes Creators: Drew Gaska, Christian Berntsen, Rich Handley and Erik Matthews , Matt Busch, Patricio Carbajal, Colo, Dave Dorman, Dan Dussault, Chandra Free, Erik Gist, Lucas Graciano, Scott Hampton, David Hueso, Joe Jusko, Ken Kelly, Timothy Lantz, Leo [...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: The Lives of Sacco & Vanzetti Creators: Rick Geary Publisher: NBM Available: Booth #1528 High concept: Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder but so many supposedly damning pieces of evidence were questionable their guilty verdict elicited massive protests around the world. Published by NBM, the longest established publisher[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Dave Stevens Complete Sketches & Studies Creators: Dave Stevens Publisher: IDW Available: Booth #2643 High concept: For several years, Dave Stevens self-published four sketchbooks to sell specifically at the San Diego Comic Con This volume collects the entire contents of those four sketchbooks, plus approximately 100 additional[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… strong>Title: Rust: Visitor In The Field Creators: Royden Lepp Publisher: Archaia Available: Booth #2635 High concept: a high-octane adventure set in the prairie lands of an unknown time Life on the Taylor family farm was difficult enough before Jet Jones crashes into the barn, chased by a giant decommissioned [...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Walter Simonson's The Mighty Thor: Artist's Edition Creators: Walter Simonson Publisher: IDW Available: Booth #2643 High concept: This collection presents Thor 337-340 and 360-362—Simonson's first story, followed by one of his favorite story arcs. Format: 176 pages, black and white, hardcover Print run: 500 Price: $100 What's the website: Preorder at http://bit.ly/mightythor. [...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Any Empire Creators: Nate Powell Publisher: Top Shelf Available: Booth #1721 High concept: A vivid examination of war and violence, and their trickle-down effects on middle America First, a group of small-town kids find themselves bound together by geography, boredom, and a string of mysterious turtle mutilations Years[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Anne Rice's Servant of the Bones #1 Creators: Anne Rice & Mariah Huehner, Renae DeLiz & Ray Dillon Publisher: IDW Available: Booth #2643 High concept: An adaptation of Anne Rice's novel that takes us back to the time of ancient Babylon with this six-part tale of murder, demonic revenge, and the[...]

These Wayne Casino chips from the Flashpoint crossover will be given away by DC Comics at San Diego Comic Con, colour coded for different days… Expect the white chips on limited entry Preview Wednesday and the black chips for the best questions at DC panels to have some actual value outside of the show, as well[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Infinite Kung-Fu Creators: Kagan McLeod Publisher: Top Shelf Available: Booth #1721 High concept: Catastrophe has knocked most of the world back to the middle ages — and to make matters worse, the dead are rising from the grave as zombies (reincarnation gone wrong)! In this world, where the way of[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969 Creators: Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill Publisher: Top Shelf Available: Booth #1721 High concept: CHAPTER TWO takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1969, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Z-Girl and the 4 Tigers #1 Creators: Kirk Manley and Jeff Marsick with Euan Mactavish on colors Publisher: Studio Z Available: Booth #L-11 (Small Press area) High concept: A centuries-old female zombie leads a unique special forces team composed of ancient Chinese warrior spirits inhabiting human hosts.  Traveling the globe, Z-Girl and the[...]

Title: Haunted City #0 Creators: created by Chap Taylor, written by Taylor and Peter Johnson with art by Michael Ryan, in association with McG’s

It's that time of the year for the Gays In Comics panel at San Diego Comic Con – for their twenty fourth year And that time of the year where people start asking about the sexuality of the panellists! Who this year are Robert Kirkman, Chip Kidd, Dan Parent, Jon Macy, Paul Cornell,[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Broken Pieces #1 Creators: Mark Roslan and Micah Kaneshiro Publisher: Aspen Available: Booth #2321 High concept: In a not too distant future torn apart by a deadly biological catastrophe, doctors Richard and Gabriella Adams stood on the verge of a scientific breakthrough—a cure to the epidemic spreading across North America,[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: Dead Apes In The Snow Creators: Liam Sharp Publisher: Madefire. Available: Booth #4902 with Gary Gianni. High concept: A book for both fans and connoisseurs, Dead Apes in the Snow represents a remarkable insight into the evolution of one of Britain's foremost artistic talents whose work has spread outside of comics into[...]

And the winner gets lunch on her, at San Diego Comic Con I mean, paid for by her, not on… look, you just think what you want to think okay? And she will be dressed as Elektra-Woman. Superhero costume designers are encouraged to take part with the winner being announced on July 18th It doesn't have[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: You Might Be A Monster & Other Stories I Made Up. Creators: Attaboy Publisher: Immedium Available: High concept: A 21st century version of Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic – an illustrated anthology of wacky poems Format: Hardcover, 36 pages. Print run: TBA Price: $15.95 What's the website: www.immedium.com Let's have a look then: [...]

Also cut and pasted into the Massively Updateable San Diego Programming List. I'll make my way through this later… but what takes your fancy? 6:00-9:00 Special Sneak Peek Pilot Screenings: Alcatraz, Person of Interest, The Secret Circle, and Supernatural: The Anime Series— Comic-Con and Warner Bros Television proudly continue their annual Preview Night tradition with exclusive[...]

So, what is DC Comics up to over San Diego weekend? Let's have a look at the panel programming, already being inserted into the Bleeding Cool Massively Updateable San Diego Comic Con Programming List… It looks like Bob Wayne is really earning his increase in salary… six panels Bob? Do you have enough dry wit to[...]

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: FairyQuest Creators: Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos Publisher: Mafufo Available: Booth #5565 High concept: TBA Format: Hardcover Print run: 1000 Price: $25 What's the website: http://www.mafufo.org/ Let's have a look then: Debuting at San Diego Comic Con… Title: FairyQuest Creators: Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos Publisher: Mafufo Available: Booth #5565 High concept: TBA Format: Hardcover Print run: 1000 Price: $25 What's the website: http://www.mafufo.org/ Let's have a look[...]

The line up San Diego Comic Con's Artists Alley, this year sponsored by deviantART, has been announced by the convention And there's a surprise or two. Artosts Alley is always a heady mix of the name creator taking commissions, newbies trying to push his latest thing, attempting to find an audience and old hands keeping the[...]

Another look at an upcoming comic book making its debut appearance at the San Diego Comic Con in a couple of weeks Do let us know if you have anything showing its face there for the first time… Title: The Many Adventures of Miranda Mercury: Time Runs Out Creators: Brandon Thomas and Lee Ferguson Publisher: Archaia Entertainment. Available: Booth[...]

Title: Mr. Murder Is Dead Creators: Victor Quinaz and Brent Schooonover with Stacie Ponder and Zachary Quinto. Publisher: Archaia Entertainment.

Title: Monsters Among Us Creators: Rob Wuest, Stefano Pavan and Mark Englert Publisher: Cosmic Comics Group Available: Small Press Table K2 High concept: A sci-fi/monster comic set in the year 1959 and follows the lives of the Kraushaar family and their tragic connection to unleashing monsters on the world! Format: Hardcover Print run: 2o0 copies Price: $10 What's the website: http://monsters-among-us.com Let's[...]

Marvel make their big move for San Diego… outside San Diego Comic Con Marvel Monstergeddon will see Marvel-themed monster trucks smashing each other up from July 14th at Qualcomm Stadium through the Comic Con week And apparently there's a storyline as well, as the whole San Diego stadium gets Marvelised. And with your half price[...]

SanDiegoWatch: We're still updating the Updateable San Diego Programming List until the official list is released Just added Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan's appearances Do you have any panels you'd like to see added? GrantWatch: Here's a transcript of that Mindless Ones interview with Grant Morrison. "I thought super-fashion would look more like Zenith:[...]