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I've been lucky enough to meet a few of the greatest visionaries of the last 50 years, and men and women who have shaped the course of our culture, but I say with complete...

The nominees have been announced for the Shel Dorf Awards 2012. The awards nominate a lot of the usual incredibly talented suspects, with books like Daredevil, Batman and Walking Dead all receiving multiple nominations....

Last year, The Beatrix proclaimed October 10th "Torsten Day", so I thought, "Why not make it an ongoing celebration?"  (That's a rhetorical question.  I've found that if I start to answer the questions which...

Short answer: splattered on a sidewalk. Longer answer: When not in an interview or meeting, my home base will be the Publishers Weekly booth, #3147. I'll be there with beat alumna Kate Fitzsimons...

Lucy Mona Tinúviel. Yes, she has one eye bigger than the other and it gives her the most adorable winking look. Charlie Victor Finrod, book loving rascal. Cats. Books. Internet. Huff it.

An actual scientific study in Japan has shown that kawaii ("Cute") is good for you brain! just looking at cute animals helps you focus, perhaps by activating some kind of protective behavior? In the first...

Oh you knew it was going to happen. Gotta rebuild traffic somehow. Lucy and Charlie contemplate life in the bathtub. Not named after Peanuts, but we realized it after the fact.

A few people miss the all-in-one page layout—I think it's possible to create a page that presents it all in this fashion and in the next round of tinkers I'll look into that. ... Of course we'll be presenting as much top notch content, breaking news, thought provoking analysis and pictures of lovable kittens to earn these social media thumbs ups, but all of it will definitely help the site recover from the dark old days.

Yay we made it to the other side. And we have KITTENS.

Yes, at long last the great migration is under way. We'll resume posting when the coast is clear. In the meantime DO NOT POST COMMENTS. (That means YOU, Torsten.) They will not make the...

So I've been on vacation (on and off) for the last two weeks and hadn't been paying too much attention to the internet—a wonderful activity that I highly recommend every six months or so. On the way home from a wedding I was surprised to learn that the man I call "John V." seems to have become the focus of concentrated internet outrage for a day or so—and I couldn't be more thrilled. John V., a message board poster who uses rotating IPs to avoid filters, has been haunting the comment boards of female writers for over two years. A few months ago, for whatever reason, he seems to have started using Twitter as a base for his insults and rape-obsessed ragings. As you can see from the above, about a month ago he made a series of posts aimed at me, Tom Spurgeon, DCWKA's Sue, Jill Pantozzi and a few others that shocked quite a few people. Although John V. is clearly a misogynist with a deep hatred of women, he also seemed to have a mad on for men of comics like Spurgeon.

What could possibly happen in the week before Labor Day? We tell ourselves that every year, and every year something wild and wacky happens, like Disney buying Marvel, or Rob Liefeld becoming the Twitter Assassin. Despite temptation, we're still taking some time off this week to view historical sites around the US. Todd Terrific is also indisposed this week, and I think Sterling Steve is also on vacation. Tireless Torsten and Jaunty Jessica are still at the helm, however.