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A Kentucky man who hoped to sell his comics collection in order to help send his grandkids to college will probably be able to...

Every year the Banned Books Week National Committee announces a theme, and for 2014 its comics and graphic novels. The announcement comes in the...

The issue of harassment at cons isn't going to go away, and seems to get highlighted more each day as women, men, organizers, cosplayers and interne bystanders deal with the growing injection of actual hormonal humans into abstract fan scenarios. When I went to shows as a youngster, I thought of cons as a "safe space" believe it or not. Compared to the rock scene I was involved with, the relatively few women in comics were in a mostly hands off zone, mostly because most congoers were afraid of them, and should anything amiss happen there was a huge crew of friends to back you up. Notice that I just said "COMPARED TO THE ROCK SCENE"; it was far from a paradise of equality, but I felt safer at a comic con than I did at most places.

So BookCon was, like the very first New York Comic-Con, a raging success that caught everyone by surprise. It may be surprising that so...

A graphic novel is dropping this week called The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition: A New History of the Great Depression . It's a 320...

This Saturday the previously business only trade show Book Expo America will turn into the very first BookCon, an event that is open to...

Considering that William Gibson's Neuromancer is one of my favorite books of all times, you'd think I'd have remembered that there was a comics...

A few days back I ran a rundown of one particularly crowded weekend for comic cons, among them one called SuperFan ComicCon in Toronto,...

Alan Moore, Writer, along with Leah Moore, Editor Anything that has the tagline ‘Not so much pushing the envelope of comicbook storytelling as folding it...

Everyone has milestone events which they remember (or wish to forget).  Some are small memories, like a first kiss, while others can be momentous...

In case you missed the Flight 370 of the comics internet, here's a post to get you totally up to speed on the latest...