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This exhibit of works from Craig Yoe's original art collection has already garnered stellar accolades - tonight you can see why. And that's not all ... I had the good fortune of seeing an early...

Let’s end up this week in comics with an inspiring event: Rep. John Lewis’s full half appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Monday. The occasion was the 50th anniversary of the...

I was tooling around on the internet the other night, and unexpectedly came across this masterpiece, a monument to the 80s culture of buddy cop TV shows that features perhaps the most perfect execution of the "buddy cops standing back to back in front of a car with their arms crossed" pose, a pose parodied as much as it is worshipped worldwide. Sometimes the arms are not crossed sometimes they are holding guns, sometimes they are standing in front of other things. But it's the "I got your back, buddy!" pose that says these partners are going to solve crimes together no matter what the dangers.

The passing of Leonard Nimoy last week was, as Lance Parkin notes, “a significant event.” Trekkers Everyone mourned this actor, and this character, by watching Wrath of Khan, taking LLAP selfies, and retweeting Nimoy’s...

Somehow I have neglected to mention until this moment that Jackie Estrada is crowdfunding a second book of photos taken at conventions over the years, this one focusing on the 90s. The first...

Human history has a lot of dark moments....the Armenian genocide is one of them. Devil's Due has been around for a long time, and had ups, downs and all arounds, but they have a...

What makes Harley Quinn so popular? Abraham Riesman digs into her history to try to find answers.

Randy Duncan and Matthew Smith have published a second edition of their essential textbook on the history and business of comics -- and this time, they're joined by a new author: Paul Levitz.

In the last few weeks there's been a bit of online speculation about why Michael Davis, one of the original Milestone Comics founders, along with Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle and Dwayne McDuffie, and co-creator...

by Pamela Auditore Anyone familiar with Spike TV Scream Award Winner and New York Times Bestselling Artist/Writer Ben Templesmith's work knows he is profoundly influenced by HP Lovecraft. Even a cursorary glance at his art...

OSU's Billy Ireland library and Museum continues to amass more important collections or archival papers with the announcement that editorial cartoonist Tom Tomorrow aka Dan Perkins will be donating his papers to the institution. Tomorrow is a alt.weekly mainstay whose made the transition to the inetrent world, with his trenchant comics found in 70 papers, Daily Kos, The Nation, and The Nib.  

In a previous post, we looked at how Carl Burgos’ original Human Torch might have been inspired by helldivers at the 1939 New York World’s Fair (Unassuming Barber Shop is all about that "might")....