50th Anniversaries: Doctor Who and the Kennedy Assassination
Fifty years ago today a SF show called Doctor Who debuted in England. Festivities and surprises are planned to celebrate this anniversary.
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MARCH soars to #12 on Amazon after Rachel Maddow appearance
MARCH made it to Maddow last night, as Rep. John Lewis, co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell appeared on the Rachel Maddow show...
One Year Ago: Josh Neufeld remembers Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath
Over at The Nib, Josh Neufeld, the comics laureate of Hurricane Katrina, has stories stories of Hurricane Sandy one year later.
Go See! Kate Brown and Paul Duffield’s ‘Crown of Blood’
Now playing at the Tower of London, comic creators Kate Brown and Paul Duffield have created a two-minute video about the princes in the...
Gene Deitch’s Nudnik joins Tumblr, Twitter and so on
As long as we're talking about the groovy 60s, the angular, sketchy cartoons of Gene Deitch (father of Kim) were a staple of the...
The day Archie’s publisher put the heat on J. Edgar Hoover over dirty comic...
Back in 1960, Archie Publisher John L. Goldwater told FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover that he was WRONG about dirty comic books
Best idea ever: Shatner and West kibbitz at Salt Lake City con
HOW has no one ever thought of this before? Putting William Shatner and Adam West—the two most mellifluous, self mocking and endearing of legendary...
Stan Lee has an archive, but you will probably never be able to see...
In an era when more and more collection of personal comics papers are being given to scholarly institutions (Columbia's Karen Green and OSU's Jenny Robb being among the leaders of this particular movement) it came as a bit of a surprise to be reminded where Stan Lee's papers are housed: Laramie, WY. Sequential Tart's Katie Frank made the arduous journey to the archive at the University of Wyoming, braving raging rivers, scaling giant redwoods and sustained on morning dew from maple leaves, but she made it.
Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison having tea together
We've seen some pretty funny mash-ups photos floating around the web of Grant Morrison and Alan Moore together, photos which are a little ironic since the two titans of comics are not actually besties IRL. However, the above photo of Morrison and Neil Gaiman is 100% real.
SDCC: Rep. John Lewis’s MARCH: Book One
by Pam Auditore
Among the faux Heroes in spandex came a true, real life one, in suit and tie, to San Diego's Comic-Con one Saturday...
Spokesman who led the Danish Muhammad cartoons protests: “Oops, my bad”
One of the leaders of the protest movement against a Dutch newspaper publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad—protests which killed scores f people and engulfed the entire Islamic world in violence and protest—now says he was wrong. Ahmad Akkari, now 35, says he was way offbase when he led the protests.
Rep. John Lewis promotes March on The Colbert Report
March: Volume 1 has already had pretty huge success since its release at Comic-Con—and last night it got one of the ultimate media accolades—a...
