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By Todd Allen A $43M film debut in September?  Unheard of?  Not any more.  Hotel Transylvania shook the movie theaters out of their slump in...

First Second editorial director and cartoonist Mark Siegal, will be on tour for SAILOR TWAIN, this fall. Dates are above and in the link. If you haven't seen SAILOR TWAIN, the rich story of a 1887 Hudson River barge captain who finds a mermaid, and what unfolds from that, you are missing an imaginative comics yarn that joins other comics about waterbourne voyages, like Far Ardden and Set to Sail. Heck it's a whole new comics genre.

Looper is already killing it with the critics, Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore reach an undisclosed settlement concerning Moore's involvement with The Walking Dead,...

Can't name 'em all yet? Oh you will, laddies, yes you will.

Is there a more feel good story anywhere this year than the R.A. Dickey saga? Once cast on the scrapheap of pitching due to lacking a crucial ligament in his elbow, Dickey went through purgatory and emerged with the determination to claw his way back, and gripping the baseball with his knuckles. The Mets pitcher won his 20th game yesterday, the first Met to do so since 1990, and along the way he's having one of the greatest seasons ever by a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckleballs.

By Todd Allen Mark Millar continues his migration to the world of film.  Millar is now a "creative consultant" to 20th Century Fox.  As you...

By Todd Allen An interesting split decision at the Box Office this weekend.  Two film are estimated as a tie for the #1 spot and...

Okay not really. It's just that Stephen King has just announcedthe looooong awaited sequel to The Shining and it's called Doctor Sleep. It follows the grown-up adventures of Danny Torrance, the "redrum" lad of the original, who is now a middle-aged cat man.

We asked for Radagast the Brown. And we got him. In a bunny sled.

By Todd Allen You might have heard there was a Hobbit movie coming out in December?  Peter Jackson returning his director's gaze to Middle-Earth?  It...

New Yorkers who are are still in withdrawal from the amazing SPX just concluded, rejoice—this weekend's Brooklyn Book Festival features a full line-up of comics programming, and some comics-focused programs during the week that will keep you in comics nirvana. The festival takes place all day Sunday, September 23rd, but there are satellite events listed below.

By Todd Allen It wasn't a huge weekend at the movie box office, but it wasn't quite the disaster last weekend was, either.  A newcomer...