Bleeding Cool is an Internet news site, focusing on comics, television, film, board games, and video games. Owned by
Avatar Press, it was launched by
Rich Johnston on March 27, 2009. Avatar Press also publishes an associated magazine, ''Bleeding Cool''.
Content
Among Bleeding Cool's features are a power list detailing the most influential people in the comics industry.
In 2012, Bleeding Cool covered sexual harassment accusations leveled against
DC Comics editor
Eddie Berganza
Eddie Berganza (born circa 1965) is an American comics writer and editor, known for his editorial tenure at DC Comics from the early 1990s to the late 2010s, rising at one point to the position of Executive Editor. He was demoted, then terminate ...
, beginning with an incident at
WonderCon in
Anaheim, California. Though that initial article was a
blind item that did not name the victim or accused, four years later, Bleeding Cool named Berganza when it accused him of sexual harassment, and detailed how he had risen in the ranks at DC even after the accusations became known to his employers. This was followed by a November 2017
BuzzFeed
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report on accusations leveled against Berganza by several women that led to his termination from DC.
In November 2017, Bleeding Cool broke the story that writer/editor
C.B. Cebulski
CB and variants may refer to:
Places
* CB postcode area, British post code for eastern England served by the Cambridge postal sorting office
* Cambodia (FIPS Pub 10-4 country code and obsolete NATO digram CB)
* Cape Breton (disambiguation)
* Cen ...
, who had recently been promoted to Editor-in-Chief of
Marvel Comics, had written a number of Japanese-themed stories for Marvel in 2003 and 2004 under the pseudonym Akira Yoshida, which led to accusations of
cultural appropriation
Cultural appropriation is the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity. This can be controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from ...
,
yellowfacing, and "Orientalist profiteering".
[Elbein, Asher (December 17, 2017)]
"The Secret Identity of Marvel Comics' Editor"
'' The Atlantic''.[Andrews, Travis M. (December 19, 2017)]
"The curious tale of the Marvel comics editor who pretended to be a Japanese writer"
'' The Washington Post''.
Contributors
The site has published regular work by writers including:
*
Warren Ellis
*
Si Spurrier
Simon "Si" Spurrier (born 2 May 1981) is a British comics writer and novelist, who has previously worked as a cook, a bookseller, and an art director for the BBC.
Getting his start in comics with the British small press, he went on to write hi ...
*
Alex de Campi
Alex de Campi is a British-American music video director, comics writer and columnist.
Career
Comics
Alex de Campi wrote 2005's mini-series ''Smoke'' (published by IDW Publishing, art by Igor Kordey), which was nominated for the Eisner Award ...
*
Dennis O'Neil
*
Michael Davis
* Jude Terror
* Patrick Dane
* Dan Wickline
* Adi Tantimedh
* Brendon Connelly
* Kaitlyn Booth
* Jeremy Konrad
* Mary Anne Butler
* Bill Watters
* Ray Flook
* Madeline Ricchiuto
* Gavin Sheehan
* Lauren Michele
* Val Hochberg – creator of ''
Mystery Babylon''
* Hannah Means-Shannon – now editor at Heavy Metal Magazine
* Chris D'Lando – now C2E2 Administrator
*
Donny Cates
Donny Cates (born September 14, 1984) is an American comic book writer, artist, and podcaster, known for his work on titles like ''Venom'', ''Thanos'', ''Doctor Strange'', ''Thor,'' and ''Hulk.''
Early life
Donny Cates was born in Dallas, Texa ...
– now writer of ''
Venom'', ''
Redneck'', ''God Country'', ''
Thanos'', ''
Doctor Strange
Doctor Stephen Strange is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Steve Ditko, the character first appeared in ''Strange Tales'' #110 (cover-dated July 1963). Doctor Strange serves as Sorce ...
'', and ''
Thor''.
* Andrew Wheeler – now Editor-in-Chief of
Comics Alliance
* Joel Ronson – the son of
Jon Ronson
* Derek Des Anges – movie reviewer
* Rod Lamberti – comic store owner
Awards and accolades
Bleeding Cool was nominated for the "Favourite Comics Related Website"
Eagle Award in 2010 and 2011 and won in 2012. It was named as one of ''
PC Magazine
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''
's top blogs of 2010 and Technorati gave it a perfect 1000 score for influence in the comics category in 2011. Johnston was awarded the
Shel Dorf Award for Best Comics Blogger for his work on Bleeding Cool in 2012. He was also nominated in 2011 and 2013.
[Herndon, Dave (November 2, 2013)]
"DEARBORN: 2013 Shel Dorf awards handed out at FanFare"
'' The News-Herald'' ( Southgate, Michigan).
References
External links
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{{Comics information sources
American entertainment news websites
Websites about comics
Internet forums
Internet properties established in 2009