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Janelle Asselin used to be a Batman editor, but she recently left to work in Disney Magazines, where she appears to be turning a whole new generation of kids into comic book readers. In the UK, there have been a number of comics published by Panini/Marvel UK featuring Marvel superheroes aimed at kids, young kids even,[...]

Twelve comic stores across the British Isles will be opening on midnight on Tuesday to sell the first full week of the DC New 52 Relaunch. Sorry Scots,

The UK missed out as stores only got their comics on the day of sale, because of the Bank Holiday on Monday. So they are doing it next week instead UK retailers will be allowed to sell the first batch of New 52 comics from midnight on Tuesday Not only will this be ten hours before[...]

How does a GP in Essex come to start a major comic book convention? London Super Comic Convention is being organised by a number of people that have been brought together for the express purpose of providing what the UK has been lacking – a comic convention with not just 2 or 3 [...]

On the influential social network Mumsnet, Jo Bevan has been running the alliterative Bring Back Bunty campaign, aimed at bringing back girls comics onto the shelves of newsagents in the UK. Now, it seems, their greatest hope is the creator of 2000AD and co-creator of Judge Dredd, Pat Mills. Mills not only worked on many of the[...]

You know there's been a lot of fuss in the news (and especially the American news it seems) about riots in England. Truth is, it hasn't affected 99% of

Despite the wishes and advice from police and local service, the owners of A Place In Space in Croydon have got back into their premises. While fire did

The Manchester branch of the comic store chain Forbidden Planet is currently being attacked by rioting youth in Manchester's city centre. Here's a shot of

In the UK, there's no real thing as a fixed price for an American comic book. Diamond UK sell comics to shops depending on the discount they qualify for and shops price accordingly, but unlike the US where you'll pay cover price plus tax, there's no cover price for the UK And of course the shipping[...]

There have been riots in London the last few nights, with copycat situations kicking off in Bristol, Liverpoool, Birmingham and Nottingham, with looting

Apart from a slight difference in screen ratio, there was no difference between Torchwood Miracle Day episode 1 as seen in the US and in the UK Reports about cut scenes due to violence in the UK, and cut scenes in the US for timeliness proved false The only noticeable change was in the next-episode[...]

This is one of those curios when a forgeign license has a different market and publishing schedule. Marvel is to publish a collection of the Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death Of Spider-Man in November. But Panini/Marvel UK is to publish the same volume three months earlier, in August. And they are also publishing something that Marvel US seems[...]

The DC Retailer Roadshow that Bleeding Cool has diligently reported on, from LA, Dallas, Baltimore, New York and Chicago has two new spots on its schedule. First, the San Diego Comic Con, part of the retailer programming on Friday July 22nd 11.30am in Room 18 – and why not stay for the Diamond retailer's lunch afterwards? But[...]

For the last few years, Panini/Marvel UK has been publishing a number of Marvel superhero titles They publish a number of reprints for the young boy market in the UK, with considerabvle penetration into the news stand market where they successfully compete with Titan's Batman and Rebellion's 2000AD. But they also publish for a younger market,[...]

So the Birmingham British International Comic Show may have bitten the dust. But it has been replaced by its twin brother (or possibly sister), the

Last year I was pleased to uncover the secret political career path of Nick Spencer before he skipped Cincinnatti for New York to write comic books. Well,

How do we know? Because air freighting copies of the free-to-customers comics from Diamond US to Diamond UK warehouse in advance have forced out regular shipping titles. This is the explanation Diamond UK are giving for late and missing comics in the UK marketplace of late As a result, these titles will not be available today but[...]

UK digital TV channel, More4, has dropped The Daily Show from it's daily schedule, opting instead to just show the week-late Daily Show Global Edition once a week FX UK has already dropped The Colbert Report But Viacom still restricts the videos to people with British online accounts, due to some IT person still believing[...]

Digital viewers get to watch The Daily Show the day after transmission on More4, but The Colbert Show was just too pricey for FX UK and it didn't last long The Daily Show already took John Oliver, so we were keeping our hand in a little, but it didn't really count. The closest was the occasional[...]

Adverse weather conditions have led to severe delays for comics shipping this week in the UK The DC books came over from America early, but that was all Diamond Comics Distribution UK has shipped the DC books out early to stores, for sale on Thursday. It is expected that comics from Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, IDW[...]

It's also marked as the return of Hollywood studios to the UK, after MGM closed its studios 40 years ago. Well, Bleeding Cool is happy to show you a first look at what the studios may look like, with this fuzzy internal Warner planning image sent our way Looks a bit like a building to me[...]

But no one in the UK has ever thought about that. So he's a perfect choice to demonstrate the speed of Virgin Broadband, even if that means he ends up in a dress, in a commentary upon how even the most principled of stars can be tempted to whore themselves out for the right price. No, seriously,[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool broke the story that Diamond Comic Distributors would move to ship comic books to all comic stores across the USA to Tuesday, for Wednesday sale, rather than the current system where only a few receive their comics on Tuesday. This won't change the on-sale date for comic books, it will just allow[...]