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Once again, my nephew and I set out on Black Friday, in a quest to visit as many comics shops and related geeky retailers...

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It's a good day to reflect and truly be thankful. And also to eat more food than anyone should possibly eat in one sitting....

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Golden age artist Al Plastino has died after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 91. Plastino was best known as a Superman...

A few months ago there was a Kerfuffle over a comics which some indie comics enthusiasts thought was artistically exciting, while others couldn't see that for all the racism in these comics. I wrote about it at the time, and wondered if indie comics—so lively and vibrant—were actually being given a larger social context.

Longtime Archie artist Stan Goldberg and his wife Pauline were injured in a car accident while driving home from the OSU festival last...

This gallery of photos from a 1980’s SF Convention has been floating around for a while, but it just crossed my timestream. While all convention photos from every era share a few things—gaudy hotel carpet backgrounds, at least one ill at ease looking guy with a pencil mustache, women with flaming red hair—this one does prove a few things. Although they didn't call it "cosplay" back then —I believe the term was costuming—obviously people liked dressing just as scantily.

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