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FLAME CON returns to Times Square in 2019: here’s your ticket and exhibitor info

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Flame Con will return to Manhattan and the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel for its fifth year in 2019. The 2018 installment saw a record attendance of over 7,000 people according to Geeks OUT, the organization that has been putting on this inclusive con since its Brooklyn debut in 2015.

From the page to the stage: Minky Woodcock comes alive with bunnies and burlesque

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The sequential art of comics is by design a participatory experience, one that co-creates meaning between panel and reader. Our minds fill in the action between panels, imbuing them with movement, voice-overs, and emotion that complete the animation begun within the still frames of the artist and script of the writer. It seems a natural fit, […]

Carlos Ezquerra, the visionary artist who co-created Judge Dredd, dies at 70

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Today the comics community at large mourns the passing of legendary artist Carlos Ezquerra whose work co-creating Judge Dredd for 2000 AD defined that magazine through over 40 years of publishing and coalesced the modern British comics movement.

Nerds flame on at Flame Con: all the queer cheer is here

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In its fourth year, Flame Con continues to be a haven for diverse voices among indie creators, artists and the fans that love them.

Kickstarter campaign to turn Minky Woodcock comic into a play is in its final week

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A Kickstarter campaign launched to turn the Minky Woodcock comic about a prohibition-era gumshoe into an immersive theater production ends a week from today.

SDCC ’18: Statix Press panel will announce “major new film project”

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Heidi MacDonald moderates Statix Press: Bringing the Best of the World’s Comics to a U.S. Audience on  Thursday, July 19 at SDCC

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