Breaking: Ron Smith found not guilty
UPDATE: Here's the news story confirmation:
A COMIC book artist has been cleared of raping and sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl. Ronald Smith, of Grange...
DREDD artist on trial
The British SUN tabloid is to sober news reporting what a caramel frappucino is to healthy food, but here's a sad story from its...
More Geppi money woes
The Baltimore City Paper has news of another debt against Diamond owner Steve Geppi,, this time a $600K loan from Camden National Bank in...
Handley pleads guilty
As reported yesterday, Christopher Handley, the Iowa man arrested for owning drawn material depicting children engaged in sexual acts, has pleaded guilty to...
Wolverine-gate updates
Last week, Roger Friedman, a showbiz columnist who worked for Fox, wrote a column in which he reviewed the download bootleg version of WOLVERINE....
Scans_daily story roundup
Glen Hauman interviews the scans_daily moderators over at ComicMix, and it's interesting on many levels.
ComicMix: What do you know about the circumstances of...
Scans_Daily shut down; Internet reacts…and reacts
Over the weekend, news broke that the popular LiveJournal community Scans–Daily has been closed down. The community started out as a repository for slash...
Rall’s open letter on the Brian Duffy matter
Editorial cartoonist Brian Duffy was recently let go from his job at the Des Moines Register; after leaving, he discovered that his artwork, which...
Steve Geppi’s debt woes growing
In recent weeks, while news of Diamond's new trade policies has rippled through every level of the comics business, Diamond's owner, Stephen Geppi, has...
Legal Danger: Lead laws threaten children’s products
Evan Dorkin rounds up the potential dangers of too-literal readings of recent laws aimed at testing lead levels in children's toys:
Anyway -- said impact...
Legal Danger: Comics in Britain!
Comics fans fear that two new British anti-pornography laws 'could make comic books illegal'. The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act would make possessing...
Some Stan musings
§ Steven Grant looks at the history of Stan Lee and his failed dot-com:
Which led to an interesting phenomenon, though one not so rare...
