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Late last night Twitter flared with anger over a post entitled How to hire an artist by a designer of Flash-based computer games. Although we usually don't quote things so extensively, it seems that running enough of an excerpt to get the whole story is important here (plus is may be taken down). This is what the author, Christopher Gregorio, has to say about selecting an artist for a game project:

Friends of Lulu president Valerie D'Orazio announces that this years Friends of Lulu Awrds will have a new home -- the Long Beach Comic Con. Nominations are open to the public, and can be made here -- but hurry the deadline is August 23rd. After nearly shutting down just a few weeks ago, Friends of Lulu has reemerged with an interim volunteer board. In addition, missing financial records have been recovered, and the organization is moving forward once again.

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...