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Gareb Shamus has purchased another convention, the New England Con in Boston. According to the PR, it’s a 35-year-old show run by Larry Harrison , owner of Harrison’s Comics & Collectibles, and Jimmy Tournas and dates will be announced.
Given Shamus’s recent track record ...
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Speaking of Kazu Kibuishi, he has a nice post up examining what the contributors to the anthology Flight #1 have done in the five years since it came out. At the time, the fresh new cartoonists within were hailed as a new force in the industry — and they have mostly gone on to very ...
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§ Tucker Stone is at it again.
§ Is someone making a book of Stan Lee’s tweets? They should.
The reason I always say “good night” is I don’t want you staying up for hours denying yourself sleep, desperately waiting for my next tweet
§ Jog examines ...
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• Option watch: Mandalay Pictures has picked up UNTHINKABLE by author Mark Sable and artist Julian Totino Tedesco. The book is published by Boom! and Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby will produce, along with Mandalay’s Peter Gruber and Cathy Schulman.
Created and written by Mark Sable, ...
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At Fourth Letter, Esther Inglis-Arkell becomes enraged by female comics characters who stand around and explain why they wear skimpy costumes.
And I heard the justification about how Canary’s outfit was in tribute to her mother, even when that means she’s in panties and a jacket in the ...
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Archie gets an art exhibit tonight at MoCCa in a show that runs through February:
Welcome to Riverdale! Join the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA in celebrating the world of Archie Comics, one of the oldest and most beloved family-friendly brands in the comic book industry. Thrill ...
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Now through Sunday it’s the Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds, a four day fest of all things comical, with a one day comics show on Saturday. The complete schedule is here with a full plate of screenings, workshops, and panels. The graphically stunning but uncopyable guest list is here ...
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Bryan Talbot
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Even as our previous story on the Jessamine
County Library LoEG controversy was getting Boing Boinged —
on Alan Moore’s birthday no less — and stirring up a whole new round of observations, events were heating up at a library ...
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Evangelist: If Alan Moore isn’t porno, what is?
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§ Bully salutes Spider-Ham perhaps the only Marvel character whose design was inspired by Terrytoons.
§ As promised in our comment section, Kiel Phegley interviews Gilbert Hernandez about TRUBLEMAKERS , his new book:
All of Hernandez’ characters, though, share the thrillseeker ...
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With Kitty Pryde as Bella.
We enjoyed this video AND the ad for ZORRO DVDs that ran before it!
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Careful observers may have noticed that The Beat ’s scheduling has been a bit erratic of late. Apologies for the lack of Morning Beat for those of you in the Eastern and Central time zones. We’ve actually been working on some big stuff behind the scenes, which is time and ...
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Melinda Gebbie, Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell and his wife Anne,out and about in Northhampton, UK.
Via Campbell’s blog. :
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§ Shouldn’t we just run a feed of Comics Comics here since we link to almost EVERY post? Anyway, Dan Nadel shares the contents of his mental desk drawer, including a contemplation of George Wunder, (above).
Where are all the letters and such? Where are the diary entries that ...
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Just to follow-up on the earlier post about
how only one movie in the top 20 highest
grossing films of the Aughts was based on an original idea, lets check out the 90s to see how they compare. Original stories are in RED. 1 Titanic — ORIGINAL 2 Star Wars - Episode 1 - The Phantom ...
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Were 90s movies as unoriginal as Aught movies?
Via pr, this year’s Eisner Award judges have been announced:
Comic-Con International is proud to announce that the judging panel has been named for the 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. This blue-ribbon committee will be choosing the nominations to appear on the Eisner Awards ...
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Is there a new book by Gilbert Hernandez out every time we turn around — or is that just an illusion? Either way, we win, since Hernandez is one of the greatest comics storytellers of the age. To show how, CBR previews The Troublemakers his latest pulp graphic novel, just out from ...
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Now, I know it may be hard to believe sometimes because of all the “deaths” that occur in comics, especially right now in the DCU, but there’s not always a mandate where we sit around and say, “Who we gonna kill this time out?”
XXXXX’x death came to be ...
