''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 in 2009. Avatar Press also publishes an associated magazine, also called ''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
DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book seri ...
editor
Eddie Berganza, beginning with an incident at
WonderCon in
Anaheim, California
Anaheim ( ) is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, part of the Greater Los Angeles area. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 346,824, making it the most populous city in Orang ...
. 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 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, who had recently been promoted to Editor-in-Chief of
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publishing, publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin G ...
, 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,
yellowfacing, and "Orientalist profiteering".
Awards and accolades
Bleeding Cool was nominated for the "Favourite Comics Related Website"
Eagle Awards in 2010, and won in 2012. It was named as one of ''
PC Magazine
''PC Magazine'' (shortened as ''PCMag'') is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009. Publication of online editions started in late 1994 and continues .
Overview
''PC Mag ...
''
's top blogs of 2010.
References
External links
{{Comics information sources
American entertainment news websites
Websites about comics
Internet forums
Internet properties established in 2009