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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...

DC Peter David will be writing episodes of the upcoming cartoon Young Justice, which is based on the comic of the same name that he wrote for an almost five year run.

(National Cartoonist Society, Reuben Dinner, 1969) Earlier, Heidi lamented that the Eisner Awards were not given more notice by the general public. But there are ways....

Dark Horse Given that pretty much all of the Spartans died at the Battle of Thermopylae - which was sort of the point - people have been speculating for years about how Frank Miller would wring a sequel out of his hit Dark Horse graphic novel and movie 300. Today, at Comic-Con, the answer came out. The sequel, XERXES, will actually take place at exactly the same time on another battlefield of the same war.

Drawn & Quarterly expands its gekiga offerings with the announcement of two new books from manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, one of the most famed cartoonists...

Embargoed until the Top Cow panel happening right about now, we can now share all the latest Top Cow news. Top Cow is reviving Minotaur Press as an imprint for its more "independent-styled series". Upcoming Minotaur projects are ECHOES by Joshua Hale Fialkov and artist Rahsan Ekedal

We're back! And we have had no dinner and nothing to eat, so this may be very, very rocky. The evening gala starts with the...

Marvel For those who love GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (and who doesn't), Rocket Raccoon and Groot are getting their own four-issue miniseries this January entitled (wait for it)... ROCKET RACCOON & GROOT.

Dark Horse's much beloved anthology DARK HORSE PRESENTS returns in a brand new print incarnation in March 2011 with all new work from Carla Speed McNeil, Harlan Ellison, Howard Chaykin, and Mike Mignola, among others. Axe Cop, the off the wall webcomic about an axe-wielding cop, written by five year old Malachai Nicolle and illustrated by his adult brother Ethan Nicolle, is coming to Dark Horse in a collected edition this December. It will be followed by a three-part full-color miniseries in the spring of 2011.