Legal Matters

ICv2 has a report on what could be one of the first case of prosecuting Kickstarter fraud. The case involves the Kickstarter by Altius...

I've been doing this daily comics news thing for 11 years, more or less, and if there is one thing which has remained consistent throughout those 11 years of comics industry tumult, it's Stan Lee Media suing someone or something. I honestly don't remember all the things they've sued, but it includes Stan Lee, Marvel (many times) Conan Properties, and Disney (many times). The suits usually claim that Stan Lee Media owns Spider-Man, or the Avengers or Conan or whatever someone is making a movie of, and the suits always involve insanely tortured legal claims over unrelated documents. The courts always rule against SLMi, as it's called, but that doesn't stop them. They keep coming back.

This is a thing that actually happened. When I first saw it popping up on my feeds I thought it was some kind of photo shop jobbie, but no. Shia LaBeouf, the embattled plagiarist/actor, hired a plane to skywrite "I am sorry Daniel Clowes" over the pellucid skies of Los Angeles.

Jim Starlin wrote and drew Marvel's very first original graphic novel back in 1982, The Death of Captain Marvel, and he's at it again,...

LaBeouf-Gate—in which an A-list young actor continues to dig himself deeper and deeper after cluelessly ripping off a Daniel Clowes comic as the basis for a short films because SQUIRREL!—has been developing on several fronts.

If you look at the plot of Shia La Bouef's short film Howard Cantour, it sounds exactly like Daniel Clowes's short comic Justin M....

Archie Comics complaint against co-CEO Nancy Silberkleit for sexual harassment has been going around for a while. New information includes recent filings in which...

Yesterday was the long awaited trial date for the notorious Ed Kramer, and it was a bit of an anticlimax-- after avoiding charges of...

Accused child molester Ed Kramer will go on trial next week after more than a decode of legal delays and stalling. More than a decade...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling giving WB the copyright to Superman and setting aside a 1998 copyright...

Oh WikiLeaks, the gift that keeps on giving. Yet another fascinating finding from the papers is the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, which covers...

Stan Lee Media—the creeping zombie of a company that no longer has anything to do with Stan Lee, but loves to say they have...