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Doctor Who to remain on-air until 2020 according to Moffat and BBC, Denton, TX celebrates "Dr. Who Day" and Titan releases preview pages of their three new Doctor stories for Free Comic Book Day.

Usually when I say someone retiring is the end of an era, I mean that the way that person did business is gone. In this case I really do mean it is the end of the era of New York publishing in general, and New York comics publishing in specifics.

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...

A dream team of comics scholars has been assembled, including Professor Bart Beaty, Unflattening author Nick Sousanis, and asst. professor Benjamin Woo, and using...

The Onion reports that with the rapid melting of the Arctic ice cap and permafrost, many secret lairs once hidden have been exposed. "Last week...

By: Nick Eskey “Back to the Future” has been marked in movie history as one of the greatest. Try to look at a DeLorean and...

By and large, American comics are exercises in external action.  Rare is the superhero who ends up blighted by some existential crisis and is...

Today is a day to send shout-outs to the Center for Cartoon Studies, located in White River Junction, VT and recognize it's many good deeds. While my shout out should be a loving essay on how teaching comics has had a strong effect on storytelling and how the bucolic yet isolated campus in rural Vermont allows students to focus in on making comics, or the print room or the other great things about the faculty which includes James Sturm and Steve Bissette, I don't have time for that. Instead I will just direct you to Rob Clough's series looking at the WORK of CCS grads and spotlight a few of them:

April Fools? Or totally cools?

See I tolja, it's hard to be funny about this stuff any more with satirical sites the Onion and Clickhole, let alone ACTUAL sites like Daily Caller, Upworthy and thenTaboola promising 10 celebrity dogs who have aged badly at the end of everything we read on the 'Net. A few people tried. io9 of all places had the old DC, Marvel Announce Merger story, albeit with some nice characterization:

Beloved comics figures Jen Vaughn is leaving her marketing position at Fantagraphics, and Tom Spurgeon has her exit inerview: VAUGHN: The plan was to stay...

After a four year hiatus, a new issue of Sammy Harkham's acclaimed Crickets is coming at the end of April. You can pre order...