Alien Books has added the Zorro license, courtesy of Zorro Productions, Inc, to their lineup. Including both new comic book series and classic work by Alex Toth. Zorro will join Alien's catalogue of licensed properties, including the Valiant Comics characters, overseas manga, and translated editions of Juan Gimenez's classic graphic novels. Alien Books states that […]
Vault Comics, as part of their switch into publishing graphic novels and light novels. will publish a graphic novel adaptation of Rhett Bruno and Jaime Castle's weird western novella, Dead Acre. The first volume in the award-winning Black Badge series, Dead Acre, is the story of James Crowley, an outlaw who met his mortal end in a […]
Since American President Donald Trump paused the threatened taxes and tariffs against American importers of Canadian and Mexican goods earlier in the year, and importers from China got away with just a 10% tariff, the fact that this was a delay rather than a cessation was an inconvenient truth that many tried to dismiss. Tariffs […]
When the Free Comic Book Day titles for 2025 were first reported, some of the books had "placement" covers while they worked out exactly what they were going to be. And then Vault Comics also added Post Malone's Big Rig. But here are the titles that now have updated covers… FCBD 2025 SINGLE UNIT POWER […]
Vault Comics has added a new Free Comic Book Day title to the line-up this year. A preview of a graphic novel Big Rig by Post Malone, Adrian Wassel and Nathan Gooden for Free Comic Book Day 2025. "Evil Dead meets Mad Max: Fury Road in this story set in medieval Europe, where the only […]
Free Comic Book Day is owned and run by Diamond Comic Distributors. The company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has seen a number of publishers pull out of Diamond completely as a result. With tariffs threatened on comics published in Canada – which is most of the Free Comic Book Day titles […]
Mad Cave Studios and Vault Comics have told Diamond Comic Distributors that they will not be distributed by Diamond any more. Both publishers have distribution deals with Lunar Distribution non-exclusively, as well as Diamond, but they now appear to be going all-in with Lunar. This follows Image Comics stating that they won't allow Diamond to […]
Vault Comics is an American publisher of comic books based in Missoula, Montana, and founded in 2016 by brothers Damian and Adrian Wassel, and their cousin Nathan Gooden. They have published many creator-owned series from the likes of Tim Seeley, Ashley A. Woods, Magdalene Visaggio, Cavan Scott, Donny Cates, Brandon Sanderson, Tini Howard, Ram V, […]
Vault Comics is distributed to the direct market of comic book stores via Diamond and Lunar. But in the wake of Diamond Comic Distributors announcing bankruptcy, Vault Comics has announced the launch of direct-to-retailer distribution of all new Vault titles to operate alongside its existing distribution channels. Vault's direct-to-retailer distribution platform will launch on the […]
Bleeding Cool has been covering plenty of comic book retailer and distributor disruption in recent weeks, after Diamond closed their Plattsburgh distributor early, and we heard tales of comics arriving by publisher that had to be sent back to the publisher rather than be diverted to their now-only distribution centre in Olive Branch. But Christmas […]
Vault Comics launches the Def Leppard graphic novel Hysteria by Eliot Rahal, Phil Collen and Alex Schlitz. As Tim Selley, Patton Oswalt and Garth Graham continue their sci-fi erotic comedy comic book series Money Shot: Big Bang with issue 2 in Vault Comics' March 2025 solicits and solicitations. DEF LEPPARD'S HYSTERIA THE GRAPHIC NOVEL VAULT COMICS JAN251989 (W) Eliot Rahal, Phil Collen (A […]
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool looked at potential fears for the comic book industry regarding promised tariffs and taxes being levelled against Canada, Mexico and China. And a few more people with knowledge of the situation have been having their say. Anne Trubek is an author, founder, and director of Belt Magazine, the writer of The History and Uncertain Future […]
There is some irony that America is celebrating Thanksgiving at a time when they are also planning new trade taxes on importers when the American Revolution was classically started over the rejection of tariffs over tea and a certain Botany Bay. But I am a Brit, so what do I know? Well, I am a […]
Eliot Rahal, Phil Collen, Alex Schlitz and Fabi Marques are creating a Def Leppard graphic novel based on Def Leppard's album Hysteria from Vault Comics in 2025. And in May, they will be showing a preview of the comic book for Free Comic Book Day. Hysteria is the fourth album by Def Leppard, released in […]
It's my fifty-second birthday today, And as a special present, Bleeding Cool has been able to secure the full list of Free Comic Book Day titles being given away for the 3rd of May, 2025, through Diamond Comic Distributors. There will also be a handful of other FCBD titles added later, including those from DC […]
Patton Oswalt will join Tim Seeley and Garth Graham for a brand new Money Shot series at Vault Comics, as part of their January 2025 solicits and solicitation with Money Shot: Big Bang #0. The sex-positive erotic sci-fi comedy focuses on always breaking the prime directive… MONEY SHOT BIG BANG #0 (OF 5) CVR A […]
Printwatch: Fourth prints for Power Fantasy, Third printings for Life, The Moon Is Falling and Power Fantasy, Second prints for Goobers, Hyde Street, Falling In Love On The Path To Hell, Storm, and Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes. FALLING IN LOVE ON PATH TO HELL #5 2ND PTG CVR A BROWN (MR) FALLING IN LOVE ON […]
PrintWatch: Transformers #1 by Daniel Warren Johnson is getting a ninth printing from Skybound/Hasbro/Image Comics with a cover by Pye Parr. This will be accompanied by a 6th printing of Transformers #2 with a cover by Jon Lam, a fourth printing of Transformers #3 and #4 with covers by Andrea Milana and Riley Rossmo, Ivan […]
Christopher Cantwell and Victor Santos are continuing their deceit with their new comic book series Kid Maroon, with the second issue in Vault Comics' December 2024 solicits and solicitations. As well as more Godfather Of Hell by Cavan Scott and Pius Bak. Still rather slim pickings for the publisher in the run-up to Christmas. KID MAROON […]
Vault and Def Leppard have announced a special zero comic book issue ahead of Hysteria, the forthcoming graphic novel co-written by Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen and Eliot Rahal, drawn by Alex Schlitz, coloured by Fabi Marques, and lettered by Andworld Design. This single issue offering will give readers an early look at the much […]
