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Dr. Neil Cohn may soon become one of the most quoted people in the comics world. That's because he's a scientist who has been...

Natalie Atkinson captures a cartooning summit in Toronto with, l-r, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Seth, Chester Brown, Anouk Ricard, Beguiling owner Peter Birkamoe and Adrian Tomine.

Quite a few remembrances of underground pioneer Spain Rodriguez, including this round-up of reactions from his peers at TCJ. Here's Gary Panter's imagined history: SPAIN...

Finally, the long national nightmare is over as future Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has apologized on Facebook for his unwise, unfunny and offensive comments that he wrote on his blog two years ago:

Well, this is certainly one of the most British things I've ever heard. Please whistle the theme tune to The Archers while you read...

While director James Gunn has remained silent on the shitstorm surrounding his two-year-old superhero sex list—probably because Disney won't let him speak out— he's fought back with a seething, hate filled tweet.

Artist Tom Fowler has a new tumblr blog called D&D&D. That is all.

Yesterday there was a new source of gender battle outrage on the internets, as spelled out by The Mary Sue. It seems that director James Gunn, who has made the film Super and is slated to write and direct Guardians of the Galaxy has a very active website and online presence and nearly two years ago he ran a piece called 50 Superhero you want to have sex with that included all kinds of jokes about having sex and rape and gays.

The other day we were polishing our buggy whip collection, cleaning the heads on our VCR player, and updating our RSS reader, getting rid of the dead feeds and nuking categories like "Lost blogs" and "Harry Potter." There were, unsurprisingly, scores and scores of things that have gone away in the 7 or 8 years we've had a google feed, including many that were dear to us.

I am very sad to report that an email has been sent by Ron Turner: It is with great sadness that I inform you of...

Although shot in that innovative 9:16 ratio that everyone is talking about this TRUE LIFE video of a magical white pony and a zebra racing across a dramatic Staten Island landscape cannot help but remind you that friendship is TRULY magic.

Karl Stevens' comic page Failure has been cancelled by the Boston Phoenix, where it had run for the last few years, replacing another strip by Stevens known as "Whatever." The reason, reportedly, is because the above strip insulted an advertiser, Bud Light.