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© Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons Joshua Stone reporting from Wondercon; The Creator's Role In The Future Of Comics Publishing panel featured Chris Brandt, Jimmy Palmiotti, Kraig Rasmussen, and Brian Schimer The panel tried to focus on helping those people in the audience who were looking to create their own comics The panel started focusing on the[...]

Will Romine writes; Hola fan-boy-ritos, It's your old pal Will Romine again at Wondercon  After thousands of miles logged on convention floors from sea-to-shining sea, I've picked up my fair share of swag  A limited editon print here, an autograph there, I've seen it all. However, in my old age, I've gotten philosophical[...]

But the DC New 52 panel is underway at Wondercon So what do we know? Well, plenty of people were wanting to ask about Wally West, Donna Troy, Cassandara Cain and Stephanie Brown Then there were those wanting to ask about Joshua Fialkov and Andy Diggle And those wanting to ask about John Stewart Or even[...]

Joshua Stone writes in for Bleeding Cool from Wondercon; I asked Frank Cho at his panel about doing more Liberty Meadows He said that Marvel pays way more than he makes on Liberty Meadows and he is divorced with two kids and child payments But he said he is going to announce in September a Liberty[...]

Peter S Svensson is giving us bullet points from the IDW panel at Wondercon. We know the Mark Waid/Paul Smith news on Rocketeer/The Spirit as Pulp Friction… Well, we also have Andrea DiVito drawing and Phil Hester writing T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents with Jerry Ordway and Dave Sim on covers. And there's an arc of the IDW Star Trek ongoing[...]

We were wondering what might be happening with The Spirit no longer being published by DC Comics. And now we have an answer. As well as the question we

And Alex Ross has painted the cover to the Pacific Rim graphic novel, Tales From Year Zero, revealed at Wondercon by Guillermo del Toro Clicky for Biggy. The graphic novel comes out in June from Legendary Comics and acts as a prequel, written by the film's screenplay writer Travis Beacham and drawn by Sean Chen, Yvel[...]

Aaron Hale reports from Wondercon; Jimmy Palmiotti confirms the return of Booster Gold, in a three issue story beginning in All Star Western #19. Previously on Bleeding Cool….   Aaron Hale reports from Wondercon; Jimmy Palmiotti confirms the return of Booster Gold, in a three issue story beginning in All Star Western #19. Previously on Bleeding Cool….   [...]

David Blake Lucarelli writes; So today I took the leap from fan to creator, from convention attendee to exhibitor, selling the first issue of my comic book "The Children's Vampire Hunting Brigade," at Wondercon As I promised in 'Twas the Night Before Wondercon, I'll give you the full report, the truth and nothing but. First things first:[...]

Last year, they announced Thrillbent at WonderCon, a website that wouldn't just host webcomics, but innovate the market by making comics designed to use their medium of being displayed on monitors and phones and tablets rather than displaying "photographs of comics." Waid and Rogers then went on at length about how this is the end result[...]

Warner Bros' cinematic handling of DC properties has been mixed except for in one area: animation.

Peter S. Svensson reports for Bleeding Cool. Scott Dunbier is one of the best editors in comics. IDW is blessed with great editors, but Scott is probably

You may have read his Ten Doctors strip. And this is James Gilarte's table at Wondercon featuring a very similar image in the centre of his table. No need to squint, that's table AA213. I wonder if there are any more examples or if it's the only one? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble[...]

And now, Peter Svensson send in this tiny titbit from Wondercon. Mark Waid will be announced today as the writer of a Rocketeer crossover book featuring a big name artistic legend, with a non-IDW controlled character. Well that could be anyone Mark Waid and Alan Davis with Rocketeer Meets… Hellboy? Mark Waid and Neal Adams with Rocketeer Meets…[...]

Evic Oropilla writes from Wondercon; The MTV Geek panel was composed of Tom Akel, Marc Silvestri, Emily Lazar and Bleeding Cool's own Heather Kenealy. The panel started off talking about The Seekers Tom went over the history of how The Seekers started out as a contest to find a new artist and writer that had not been[...]

 Charlene Ellen @VampireRanch writes for Bleeding Cool. Amid a lot of Zelda Hi from WC13! I spotted Felicia here in the lobby. Gracious as always to her

Clever, clever rat creatures. The latest of the IDW Artist's Editions, Scott Dunbier's continuing project to recreate original comic book artwork pages in

David Nieves reports from Wondercon, from the Batman and James Robinson panels… The jam packed room 208 in the Anaheim Convention Center could barely contain the amazing Scott Snyder and his writing chum James Tynion IV The two took the stage to tease the audience on the upcoming Batman Zero Year. Snyder thanked the audience for[...]

Joshua Stone writes the following article from WonderCon I am not reading it, just in case There may be spoilers, I don't know Maybe Brendon will tell me. I was super excited to attend the showing of the new episode of Doctor Who While there was no accompanying panel, I felt like there would be something[...]

The Batman Zero Year panel just concluded at WonderCon with Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, and DC's John Cunningham on hand to talk about Zero Year and other upcoming projects We've got BC'ers on hand writing up the details, but for now, here's a few highlights: Greg Capullo and Snyder have plans for Batman that may[...]

Will Romine writes; Hey-o, It's your old friend Will Romine here from the Wondercon James Robinson panel He's a wonderful man who probably won't revisit Jack Knight any time soon A great magician doesn't revisit the same trick If this is the whole reason why you clicked on this article, keep reading There are still some nuggets[...]

I've got all sorts of Bleeding Cool writers running all around WonderCon But in London, it's late, it's school holidays and all that this entails and my bed is calling Also, Attendees will see tomorrow's episode of Doctor Who at 7pm their time (2am mine) and I just won't be able to take it. I[...]

Quite the highlight it seems… It moves and speaks and everything! So cool! #Wall-E #Wondercon — Daniella O.G (@allaboutmanga) March 29, 2013   Quite the highlight it seems… It moves and speaks and everything! So cool! #Wall-E #Wondercon — Daniella O.G (@allaboutmanga) March 29, 2013   Quite the highlight it seems… It moves and speaks and everything! So cool! #Wall-E #Wondercon — Daniella[...]

Convention season is well under way. Here's a Witchblade #165 cover exclusive to the show...

But who is under the mask?

Dear lord, the after party at WonderCon Who knew they made carbombs in SUV sizes? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43HLxSNwujc[/youtube] Cryptozoic and Udon were each given a huge list of possible properties to adapt into comics It had arcade games that everyone is at least slightly familiar with, down to strange properties that only got released in Japan about a pacifist[...]

The names have been removed to protect the guilty. If, as a senior comic book figure attending Wondercon, you happen to be attracted to a young lady and decide to try and make out with her, here is some advice. 1) Try to ascertain whether or not she would appreciate said move. 2) Ensure she is not the[...]

Svensson drove six hours to attend WonderCon for Bleeding Cool It was worth it. Every convention has a specific feel, a vibe This didn't feel like WonderCon Which is traditionally in San Francisco, held at the Moscone Center The building that WonderCon normally gets was under repairs this year, thus necessitating a change in venue to[...]

Jason Inman and friends have been very silly at WonderCon I have a weakness for this kind of this thing, feel free to indulge with me. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwaxOO_OXsk[/youtube] And a very entertaining outtake [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9X5At1KHtU[/youtube] Here's some more flavours of WonderCon from these folks… and others… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ8cvmc0ABw[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkzDFZ201M[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxg3xD4KevI[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFjr9mR9yrA[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5EqtZj0Spk[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgxHq0_rSRU[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R4CcVPzBYk[/youtube] Not everyone had a good time though… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRdN-eUc9X0[/youtube] [...]

Svensson stumped Mark Waid at WonderCon for Bleeding Cool. Jonah Weiland of Comic Book Resources came up with the idea of doing a "Stump Mark Waid" panel where fans would come up with comics trivia questions, or just any sort of question really, to try and stump the man who knows Superman's social security number[...]