Bleeding Cool is an Internet news site, focusing on comics, television, film, board games, and video games. Owned byAvatar Press,[1][2] it was launched byRich Johnston in 2009.[3][4] Avatar Press also publishes an associated magazine, also calledBleeding Cool.[5]
Among Bleeding Cool's features are a power list detailing the most influential people in the comics industry.[6]
In 2012, Bleeding Cool coveredsexual harassment accusations leveled againstDC Comics editorEddie Berganza, beginning with an incident atWonderCon inAnaheim, California. Though that initial article was ablind 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 2017BuzzFeed report on accusations leveled against Berganza by several women that led to his termination from DC.[7][8][9][10]
In November 2017, Bleeding Cool broke the story that writer/editorC.B. Cebulski, who had recently been promoted to Editor-in-Chief ofMarvel Comics, had written a number of Japanese-themed stories for Marvel in 2003 and 2004 under the pseudonym Akira Yoshida, which led to accusations ofcultural appropriation,yellowfacing, and "Orientalist profiteering".[11][12][13][14]
Bleeding Cool was nominated for the "Favourite Comics Related Website"Eagle Awards in 2010,[15][16] and won in 2012.[17] It was named as one ofPC Magazine's top blogs of 2010.[18]
