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Stephen James Moore was born at 2:00pm on June 11th, 1949, in a house on Shooters Hill in South London, where he lived all...

The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction has just announced a new MFA course in "Applied Cartooning", which is a word I hear a lot hat talks about using comics for educational and informational purposes. When the cartoon Illuminati gets together they are all about Applied Cartooning, trust me. According to the announcement, this program will explore "how comics can impact such diverse fields as health, business, public policy, and education."

http://www.cbsnews.com/common/video/cbsnews_player.swf Even in a world where major media coverage of comics personnel is a daily habit, this profile of The New Yorker's cartoon process by...

by Pam Auditore  Update: 3/22/2014 The Fourth and Final Season of the  Boondocks  animated TV series will premiere Monday, April 21 at 10:30p.m (ET/PT) on Adult Swim. The...

Yep you head me right. This weekend the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and LIbrary in Columbus Ohio will open two incredible shows, The Irresistible...

For those longing for the days of Barbie's crapping toy dog Tanner, we have very good news: there is a new generation of toy animals that take little toy dumps on command. Although this being 2014, the girls who own the pets are fashionable "Moxie Girls" and the lovable pets with "the silly poo" are a bunny a koala and a unicorn. It turns out unicorn poo looks a lot like a colorful plastic ball, which is a huge relief for all. Turns out the main varieties of toy turds are glitter, rainbows and jewels.

Playboy has a long interview with Stan Lee here (link NSFW but not really as much as you'd think), Normally I'd call this an "autumnal" interview, but under the circumstances, it's more...the lion in winter. Lee, perhaps realizing this is one of the few spots he has to dig in a little, sometimes avoids the kind of jokes and spin he uses in other interviews. And while his memory is always spotty (and any Lee interview includes may spots where he takes the question and moves the answer to more familiar territory) his grasp on things is still pretty sharp all things considered.

Here for the moment, on the Google homepage you'll find a lovely animation by Eleanor Davis celebrating the first day of Spring. Of course it's barely scraping 40°F as I type this. Hurry, Spring, hurry!

With comics sales stalling out after a sustained period of growth, many comics publishers are looking to get out while the getting is good....

Speaking of Comic-Con, Ashley Eckstein of Her Universe, the Star Wars themed clothing line, has announced a "geek couture" contest for designers at this...

Above art by Jill Bauman, a World Fantasy Award nominated artist who specializes in horror and fantasy. Bauman has a whole set of cat holiday paintings in the link. Confession: back in the day I had a bunch of these prints hanging up in my office at Vertigo. Bauman is an accomplished artist but I find these cats a bit more disturbing than endearing! I'm not sure if that was the intent or not, but one thing is certain: YOU CAN'T LOOK AWAY.

Let's start out this late St. Patricks Day roundup with Shaenon Garrity on two webcomics that adapt Irish Mythology: