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Great Moments in Star Wars cards signed by Mark Hamill

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Autograph authenticator Steve Grad has a collection of 100s of Star Wars cards signed by the original cast, and he's posted a gallery on...

90s nostalgia; The Anti-Gravity Room

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Just in case you missed my explanation of how manga helped pave the way for a more diverse comics industry, here's a video of me and then-Marvel editor Bobbie Chase in 1996 trying to explain why women might want to read comics. It's from a TV show called The Anti Gravity Room, which was shown on the SfiCi Channel as it was then known, which was a US version of Canada's Prisoners of Gravity. Both shows covered the whole "comics, nerd world" with taped interviews and comics-friendly segments that seem commonplace now, but were unique at the time. I think I co-hosted an episode or two, and I can't wait until those tapes surface.

A list of Comics Creators newsletters

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You can now read Warren Ellis's weekly newsletter, or at least the most recent one, at this link. In his newest one he reveals...

Harvey Pekar Park dedicated today with fest, installation in Cleveland

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Cleveland is getting a park dedicated to its comics laureate, Harvey Pekar, whose long running American Splendor comic captured the quotidian lives of Clevelanders....

One Book, One Harper Embraces Graphic Novels for College Community Read!

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Harper College, located in northwest Chicagoland, is a community college serving 40,000 students. Since the 2011-2012 school year, Harper College has a selected a title as part...

SDCC ’15: We talk cape snaps, controversy and cons with the Batgirl of Burnside...

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At SDCC '15 I talked with the Burnside Batgirl crew about their creative origins, how the look that launched a thousand cosplays came to be, how to handle creative criticism, and their earliest con experiences.

More details on Doctor Who Comics Day: new website and variant covers

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The latest details on Doctor Who Comics Day including variant covers and in-store events.

Matt Fraction speaks on collaborators and credit

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Can NO ONE get this "credit" thing right? A few days ago we noted artist Chip Zdarsky standing up for Matt Fraction, writing of...

Tom Spurgeon launches a Patreon campaign and a digital magazine

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After making some noises about it for a while, Tom Spurgeon has joined the crowdfunding world for his award-winning Comics Reporter site with a...

New Black Lightning Archive: DC, Tony Isabella Reconcile

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"Dogs and cats, living together!" - that's what immediately popped into my mind yesterday when I read Tony Isabella praising DC on Facebook for...

Cartoonist leaves paying gig, starts Kickstarter for The Nib

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A couple of years ago we were crowing with joy when Pulitzer Prize finalist cartoonist Matt Bors was hired to run Medium's comics section, The Nib, and the results were glorious, with two years of daily content that was smart funny, trenchant, moving, eye opening and everything else we love about comics. Well, as with most start-ups all good things must come to an end.

SDCC ’15: New Eighth Doctor series and holiday special announced at Titan Doctor Who...

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Titan releases Eighth Doctor series details, holiday special plans and upcoming covers and art at their SDCC Doctor Who comics panel.

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