Comics

Some Superhero Re-Construction Needed by Darin Wagner

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Darin Wagner writes for Bleeding Cool; This week we got some news about DC Comics’ latest attempt at reviving Captain Marvel. The news got me thinking once again about the Big Two and why the industry has been on life-support lately. In addition to the entrenched liberalism that persists in much of the content (which…

David Mazzucchelli Hands Over His Award In Style To Bastien Vivès

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Each year at Angouleme, l’Association des Critiques de Bande-Dessinée selects their own Critics Prize for the comic creator most deserving, in a rather splendid ceremony. This year  the award went to Bastien Vivès  for his book Polina published by KSTR/Casterman. The award was announced by Jean Christophe Ogier (left below), President of the association, alongside…

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages – Miles Morales And Batwing

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages – Miles Morales And Batwing

“It might be awkward for two white people to talk about this, but they’re written by two white people!” Grace Randolph and Alan Kistler sit down at Midtown Comics in New York to talk about Ultimate Spider-Man and Batwing, for their new Between The Pages video blog, as part of Think About The Ink.

Walt Simonson Original Graphic Novel From DC Comics – The Judas Coin

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Bleeding Cool posted a little snippet of this back in August But today, DC Comics went all official. By announcing that this September, they will publish an original graphic novel by Walt Simonson set in the DC Universe. All the DC Universe. “The cover for THE JUDAS COIN was designed and drawn with inspiration provided…

Now Bongo Comics Gets A New Logo. And Homer Tries To Eat The Old One

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DC Comics have done it. Devils Due have done it. Oni Press have done it. And now it’s time for Bongo Comics of The Simpsons, Futurama and Sergio Aragones to change their logo. And all their titles as well. Two weeks ago. Sorry, I just noticed. Here’s how, and why, Matt Groening’s comic book publisher…

Zombillenium Voted A Monster Of A Good Read At Angoulême

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Arthur Du Pins’ second volume of Zombillenium from Dupuis, published in August, has won the Jeunesse Award, for younger readers, at the world’s largest comic convention, Angoulême. The comic tells the story of an amusement arcade run by monsters…

Molly Crabapple’s Sex In The Comix To Preview At Angoulême

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The French documentary Sex In The Comix presented by Molly Crapabble will preview tonight at 8pm at Angoulême, the largest comic convention in the world, before airing on French TV on Saturday at 10.30pm and 10pm in Germany. As you can see it involves everyone from Robert Crumb to Milo Manara to Aude Picault to…

Marvel Editor Records Deadpool The Musical

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It looks like it’s back up. Deadpool editor Jordan D White’s recording of Daniel Way’s lyrics from Deadpool #49.1 by way of a few popular modern tunes and beats. Jordan writes “On the track, I play the ukulele, bass guitar, mini-bongos, egg shaker, and do all the vocals. The last section features a special guest…

Avengelyne And Skullkickers Give It Away For Free

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Last year, there was a kind of proto-Extreme relaunch with Mark Poulton and Owen Gieni recreating the Rob Liefeld character Avengelyne for Image Comics. Well, inspired by Jim Zubavich‘s free online serialised experiment with Makeshift Miracle, Owen Gieni worked out a deal with Rob Liefeld to serialize issues of Avengelyne daily via Keenspot, while pointing…

Preview: Free Comic Book Day 2012

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It’s getting closer and closer to Free Comic Book Day … in that there’s only three and a bit months to go.  But it’s a lot closer to the point when retailers hand in their orders to take part in the annual promotion that sees stores give out hundreds of free comics to their customers…

Digital Delights – Graphicly Potential, iBook Practice, Pearls Possibilities

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BeDamnedDelight: Graphic.Ly introduces a Rosetta Stone for digital comics publishign. Basically, if you are an author of visual stories, such as children’s books, graphic novels, art books, picture books, shoot even cookbooks or yearbooks, you can now come to Graphicly, upload it, and then have it automagically converted to work on (almost) every single channel…

Will You Sign The Petition For Rob Granito To Come Back To Comic Cons?

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So this petition recently went up on iPetitions. Rob Granito, a hard working artist and family man, made some unwitting mistakes doing tribute art and was buried in the comics tabloid media. Rob admits to his mistakes, and wants a chances to make amends and return to the industry he loves so much: the world…

TV/Film

Full Trailer For Lockout Is Like Escape From New York By Way Of Fortress

Full Trailer For Lockout Is Like Escape From New York By Way Of Fortress

Coming from Europacorp, Lockout is being referred to widely as Luc Besson‘s new film, and I guess it is, as he’s a producer and co-writer on the pic. But Besson isn’t the director – this is in fact the feature debut of Stephen Saint Leger and James Mather, or as they are credited, Saint and…

A Silent Blooper Reel For The Artist – Laugh Not-Out-Loud?

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Just when I thought The Artist couldn’t pick up any more buzz, along comes this blooper reel which blasts it even further into the hyposphere. Not literal buzz, of course, because this preview of the film’s French DVD special features is even more “silent” than the film was.

Watch The Superb Oscar Nominated Toon, The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Watch The Superb Oscar Nominated Toon, The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Moonbot Studios have made the entirety of their short film The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore available to stream online. And here it is.

Drive Director Turned Down for Doctor Who Gig, But Nicolas Winding Refn Has Yet To Make His Mind Up About Drive Sequel

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Nicolas Winding Refn has been riding a groundswell of rave reviews and fanboy adoration in the wake of of Drive, but not everything has gone perfectly.

Hope Springs Eternal For Captain Marvel And The Shazam! Movie

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I would probably put the jigsaw puzzle together incorrectly, but here are the pieces I remember. There was going to be a Captain Marvel movie, called Shazam! John August took a pass at the script. Then Bill Birch came on to have a try, with the help of Geoff Johns. Jake Gyllenhaal was rumoured for…

Ferris Bueller Off To The Superbowl As Matthew Broderick Reprises Iconic Slacker

Ferris Bueller Off To The Superbowl As Matthew Broderick Reprises Iconic Slacker

Linda Ge writes for Bleeding Cool. Bueller? Bueller? Looks like economics class is going to have to wait a little while longer, as Matthew Broderick is taking another day off to go to the Superbowl. The mysterious video below, uncovered by The Wrap and titled only Coming Soon, teases a commercial that’s set to air…

The Future Of Horror Movies – Afterwards They Will Explode by Patrick Willems

The Future Of Horror Movies – Afterwards They Will Explode by Patrick Willems

I think Patrick Willems has excelled himself with his second Afterwards They Will Explode video this week for Bleeding Cool. Man, I want this, I want this now. You may disagree, but if you do, you’re wrong. I can prove it with graphs.

Go Swimming With Spider-Man And The Lizard

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Is this our best, full-body look at The Lizard so far? You betcha. He’s still plastic, but he’s standing proud. Seems that Doctor Connor’s lizardification process swaps out one tail for another, know-what-I-mean-alright-am-I-right? Thanks to Little Bleeder Tom who dropped me an e-mail, saying: I’ve been following the slow reveal of the Amazing Spider-Man’s Lizard…

A Monty Python Reunion Set For Terry Jones’ Sci-Fi Comedy, Absolutely Anything

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Terry Jones‘ writing partner of late has been Gavin Scott. Together, they’re the chief writers behind the promised new Terry Pratchett TV shows, one of which should be an adaptation of Good Omens, the other of would be something like a crime-of-the-week show set on Discworld – CSI: Ankh Morpork, as it were. Another of…

New Sherlock Viral? Or Something Geekier?

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Below you’ll see a photo of a poster, hanging on a bus shelter. It was taken by Little Bleeder Ian, who wondered: I don’t know if this is genuine viral marketing or just a bunch of students. You can see a #believeinsherlock hashtag on the bottom right hand corner. I went to Twitter and searched…

New Animated Avengers Poster Is Sort Of Animated, Sort Of 3D, Definitely Wiggly

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This is an online replica of an actual poster you can buy. Of course, it would only look like this if you swang left and right a bit while looking at it. Lenticular posters never really caught on in cinemas, while still selling fairly well as collectables, I’m told. Another example of how “the core”…

Sh*t Daleks Say

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See the popular meme get Exterminated by everybody’s favourite pepperpot plungerheads.