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We won't slap a "Tolja!!!" over this, but a memo this afternoon confirms what many had been predicting since DC's new regime took over...

Or at least that's what the poster says. Click for the full size version so you can see the single sinister spot of moisture on Yogi's nose—mucus? phlegm? or...something else???—and the light glinting off his vampire fangs. Brrrrrr. "Good things come in bears." How much did the people who sat around coming up with this slogan get paid?

I have had numerous reports recently that my RSS feed isn't working. This is due to improperly setting up Feedburner, as far as...

On August 25th CAPS, The Comic Art Professional Society is hosting a benefit auction on August 25 in Burbank to support veteran comics artists...

The road to comic book Valhalla is lined with companies that have tried to do "celebrity comics" as a means of switching to the fast lane of movie money and licensing gold. Tekno, Virgin, CrossGen. There is hardly a company that does not have some kind of celebrity "vanity project" comic out there made mostly to show to producers as a bible for a film. And all of this is despite the fact that not a single movie has yet been made from a comic book that was published just to be turned into a movie. COWBOYS & ALIENS, which is certainly an A-list project with Jon Favreau, Daniel Craig, and Harrison Ford aboard is set to be the first comic of its genre to ever actually get turned into a big movie. But this is the first time it has ever happened and it took 10 years. And despite this, there are still no other Platinum, Tokyopop, Radical, or Liquid movies. No one can go to Netflix and order the MAYHEM movie or OCD movie or GAMEKEEPER movie.

Via PR, retailer Chris Powell has stepped down as president of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund board and cartoonist Larry Marder has been elected to succeed him. PR below.

Judge Barbara Crabb has made a decision following the June court appearance by Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane over profits for the characters Dark Ages Spawn, Tiffany and Domina. Gaiman held that these cast-members of the Spawn-i-verse were derivative of Medieval Spawn and Angela (characters that he co-owns, as ruled after the epic 2002 court battle), thus he was entitled to half the profits from these characters. McFarlane held the opposite and had refused to provide information on the profits. Judge Crabb sided with Gaiman, citing the similarity of the characters in a decision (readable here) which shows she spent a lot of time reading up on Spawn:

In an interview with Geoff Boucher, Frank Miller reveals the evolution of his Holy Terror, Batman! story. As many anticipated, it will no longer star Batman, and will find a new publisher, which isn't DC. The story has been adjusted to star, instead, a character called, The Fixer:

Traditional post-San Diego activity: Waiting for the new Ikea Catalog! The EXPEDIT -- building block of civilization and hoarding everywhere -- is now reduced.

According to store employees, yesterday's electrical fire at the Maoz beneath Midtown Comics Times Square left no damage to the store except for a...

We are working. We are reading up on all the Nerdmageddon posts and douchebag rallies and everything, and working on a con report which hopefully will be up Friday morning. Can't be done sooner, alas. Tomorrow is another travel day. Today, more meetings. We honestly don't think anyone gave a flying frak about Comic-Con by, oh about 4 pm Monday morning. Indeed the entertainment press has already moved on as everyone licks their wounds and starts fretting about getting a hotel room for NEXT year's con. Meanwhile, we've been looking at produce, and the fun piñatas that adorn them. Los Angeles: a world apart.

As we wait for the Beatrix to recover from her annual pilgrimage to San Diego, here are some other websites, and their consolidated reportage...