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MIX is a comics confab held each year in Columbus, OH by the Columbus College of Art and Design. This year's event will be...

Well that's what my copy editor called my story for PW How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library. Over a couple of months I talked to many of the major players in the GN/library connection like Robin Brenner, Mike Pawuk, Karen Green, Christian Zabriskie, Tina Coleman and so on to get a picture of where graphic novels got started in libraries and where they are going.

As you may recall. last month Egyptian cartoonist Magdy El Shafee was arrested during a protest at Abdel Moneim Riyad Square in Cairo. El Shafee was freed after four days, but his arrest is a reminder of the difficulties with free speech and other basic civil liberties going on in Egypt right now.

In February 1992 Todd McFarlane, along with six others, announced the founding of Image Comics, after having failed to negotiate more favourable terms for...

The Oxford Children's Comics Festival is underway right now, but I've decided that - rather than enjoy a lovely day in Oxford reading comics...

“@thetenaciousric: @gregcapullo You fucking rock man!” twitter.com/GregCapullo/st…— Greg Capullo (@GregCapullo) April 14, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js That is all.

The Northlake library in Illinois has hatched a scheme to build a large scale— 9 foot tall—statue of The Hulk. To do so they have fashioned an Indiegogo campaign. So far they have raised only $920 of the $30,000 needed, so you better get your ass over and there and pledge because it's pretty obvious that the world needs more giant statue of the Hulk outside libraries.

Matt Fraction skyped in to celebrate Iron Man’s 50th anniversary at a Comic Book Round Table event held at John Ordover's Soho Gallery for...

Given the week's events, looking at the above photo by Dynamite's Nick Barrucci taken at the C2E2 bar—the creme de la creme of comics internet media, Newsarama's Albert Ching, CBR's Kiel Phegley, The Beat, ComicVine's Tony G.Man Guerrero and IGN's Joey Exposito—you might be forgiven for wondering which member of the comic press would soon have a big red X drawn over his or her face. It was that kind of week.

Well now. As of today, I am no longer working at MTV Geek. Much thanks and appreciation to my intrepid and talented writers -- among...

This has been a rough week for the internet. The news that Comics Alliance was to be shut down, thus removing us all from...

There was a lot of talk at C2E2 about press lists, who's on, who's off, how you get on and what's expected. There's no question that Marvel and Dc, like the studios that own them, want to have more control over a positive message about their products. Unquestionably, the very professional PR people who work at Marvel and DC know that this isn't always possible, but they still have to do their jobs.