California just made it super hard to get your comics signed
California is known for having some pretty difficult laws where freelancers are concerned - and LA has even more, but here's a new one...
Legal Tussle: Marvel’s Perlmutter claims tennis lawsuit foe may have stolen Donald Trump’s DNA
As you know, we're a little obsessed with secretive Marvel chairman Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter here, probably because he is so darned secretive. And for...
San Diego news watch: Suspect arrested in string of homeless slayings
A suspect has been arrested in San Diego's recent series of murders of homeless men.
Jon David Guerrero, 39, was taken into custody after...
Emerald City Comic Con faces a class action suit over non-payment of volunteers
Seattleish has a thorough report on a class-action lawsuit filed by volunteers, known as "minions" for the 2014 and 2015 Emerald City Comic Cons....
Review: Japanese artist Rokudenashiko charts the real obscenity in her memoir
Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less...
Rokudenashiko, the vagina kayak artist, is fined ¥400,000 for obscenity
We've been telling you about the legal woes of Japanese artist Rokudenashiko for a while now. She was convicted of obscenity for selling prints of a 3D scan of her intimate area but had not been sentenced. Now, just a few days before her appearance at TCAF, she's been fined ¥400,000 by a Tokyo Court, about US$3717.
Report: Jailed Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani to be freed next month
In a world where cartoonists and other artists are often on the front line of social change, they unfortunately also sometimes pay a price...
The truth about that “$10,000 VIP room” at a comic con is actually pretty...
The other day I ran a story about a guy named Jonathon Wall who is being charged with a felony in Utah for trying to use his Federal ID to get into what was claimed to be a "$10,000 VIP room" at the Salt Lake City Comic Con.
Something about that didn't set right with me.
The case of the $10,000 comic con VIP room
Wow, this story has it all. Unattainable glamour, a desperate scheme, legal drama. And a mystery I can't answer.
Appeals court rules that 2001 agreement covers Siegel/Superman case
What may just be the FINAL final decision in the long running case to get the rights to Superman back to the Siegel family...
Con Wars: Salt Lake and San Diego maybe closer to settling
The ongoing trademark battle between Salt Lake City Comic Con and the San Diego Comic-Con may be closer to settling, although it's only listed...
SDCC ZombieWalk hit-and-run driver found guilty
Matthew Pocci, a Comic-Con volunteer who ran over a woman during the 2014 SDCC ZombieWalk was found guilty yesterday and now faced up to...
