2009 Shuster Award winners
The 2009 Joe Shuster Awards, honoring the finest in Canadian comics, were presented last night at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall. The...
Yaoi Press publisher indicted
Yamila Abraham, the publisher of Yaoi Press and a frequently quoted manga industry observer, has been indicted on seven counts of mail fraud, one...
Drawn and Quarterly big giant SALE
D&Q is having an impressive sale.
How often does this happen? We're cleaning our warehouses and we have put virtually all of our titles on...
Amazon: Cartoonists aren’t authors
Via the ACT-I-VATE blog, George O'Connor, artist on BALL-PEEN HAMMER, a recent GN from First Second, reveals a dispute with Amazon whereby they refused...
Marvel and Aniboom launch contest to find the D.W. Griffith of Motion Comics
Marvel and AniBoom, the online social network for animation, is launching a motion comics contest with a first prize of $10,000.
Marvel is teaming...
Congratulations to Lauren Weinstein and Tim Hodler
Comics Comics reports that Ramona Salley Hodler has just entered the world. Best wishes to the whole family.
More on the death of Yoshito Usui
While Japan mourns the creator of Shin-chan, Yoshito Usui, some rather heartbreaking details are emerging about his death on September 11th. Usui-sensei fell to...
RIP Bernie Fuchs
Legendary illustrator Bernie Fuchs, who mixed modern art abstraction with the powerful imagery of illustration to create one of the most influential styles in...
Kirby family files for copyright reassignment
ALL HELL IS BREAKING LOOSE. Last week, Jack Kirby's four children filed notices of copyright termination for 45 characters . The LA Times has...
RIP Yoshito Usui
Very sad news out of Japan as the body of manga-ka Yoshito Usui was found over the weekend. Usui, 51, had left...
Let’s all celebrate Benjamin Linus
Congratulations to Michael Emerson, for his Emmy win tonight, for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. You can keep your Don Draper. I'll...
