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BC Mag #5: Five Ways To Make Money Fast At SDCC

Bleeding Cool Magazine article excerpt by Rich Johnston It costs a lot to attend the San Diego Comic Con. Hotels, tickets, flights, Pedi cabs; you’re looking at a four figure sum straight up. So how about finding ways to make …

BC Mag #5: Vintage Paper Chase

Bleeding Cool Magazine article excerpt by Mark Seifert & William A. Christensen “One” isn’t the loneliest number when it comes to comic book collecting. Quite the opposite in fact—it’s the most popular number. Even non-collecting civilians have known that for …

BC Mag #5: Frank Cho Gallery

Bleeding Cool Magazine article excerpt by Rich Johnston Welcome to the Frank Cho gallery. No other name in comics simultaneously evokes the same reverence for beautifully illustrated women and monkeys like Cho. Whether it is at the helm of his …

BC Mag #5: Dropped In The Middle, A Look At Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones

Bleeding Cool Magazine article excerpt by Brendon Connelly When the teenage demon hunter Clary Fray makes her big screen debut in this August’s Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, it will be just the beginning for movies set inside novelist Cassandra …

BC Mag #5: Rocketing Spirits

Bleeding Cool Magazine article excerpt by James Kuhoric There have been many famous combinations over the years – peanut butter and jelly, Hall and Oats, and even rock and roll – but has there ever been a comic book duo …

BC Mag #5: Wolverine Set Report

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Brendon Connelly I’ve never been a sun chaser, always happier in the shade, and I’m actually quite fond of snow. Late last year, though, as British skies were settling in for a few unbroken months …

BC Mag #5: Day Men Revealed

Bleeding Cool Magazine interview with Matt Gagnon and Michael Alan Nelson BOOM! has a lot of exciting new projects coming up in their summer lineup. But one of the books that has the most interesting twist is the upcoming title, …

BC Mag #5: Fathom Reborn

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by David Marks Aspen Matthews, the SoCal-fem inspired protagonist of Michael Turner’s Fathom, may not be as familiar to the world as Wolverine, but she is as recognizable as any superhero to the long box collector, …

BC Mag #5: Sun, Sea, And SDCC

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston As well as a place that celebrates stories, San Diego Comic Con is also a place where stories grow. Comics, movies, and TV shows are pitched from person to person, condensed in such …

BC Mag #5: Dark Horse Horror

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Dan Wickline Outside of the guys in tights, the horror genre produces the best selling comic on store shelves. Fans love the dark and creepy, and one of the names synonymous with fright is Dark …

BC Mag #5: The Summer Of Valiant Returns

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Handley In 1989, Marvel Comics’ Bob Layton and Jim Shooter unveiled a new comic book line, Valiant Comics, under parent company Voyager Communications. The company achieved fast success and, in 1994, was purchased by …

BC Mag #5: Born On The Bayou: Swamp Thing’s Roots

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Handley DC Comics’ decision, in 2011, to cancel all existing series and launch 52 new titles—among them a reboot of cult classic Swamp Thing, from writer Scott Snyder and illustrator Yanick Paquette—was met with …

BC Mag #5: How To Make Movies The Marvel Way

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Brendon Connelly Iron Man 3’s Shane Black explains to me just what makes Marvel Studios movies so different. Is this the secret of their success? If I somehow found the impossible formula for a smash-hit …

BC Mag #5: The Pull List

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by James Kuhoric Ahhh…summertime. As people roll out their grills for cookouts, vacations, and holidays, the comic world focuses on big screen blockbusters and major events at multiple publishers. It’s convention season here in comics, and …