Silence of the WUMBs
It seems that the Wizard Universe Message Board, home to seditious postings on bad customer service, personnel changes, joyless conventions and other, hoi polloi,...
Newsarama sold to TopTenReviews
Newsarama, the long-running comics news site, has been purchased by TopTenReviews, a content aggregation site out of Ogden. UT, it was announced today. The...
More to do today: Greensboro, Chicago, and Philly
There are some good parties being thrown down East of the Mississippi today ...
Acme Comics in Greensboro, NC is hosting an all-day signing party...
Wonder Woman Day this weekend
Wonder Woman Day will be held this weekend in Portland, OR and Flemington, NJ. It's part of a benefit for women's shelters and a...
Joe Kubert School open house 10/24
Via PR:
The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, located at 37 Myrtle Avenue in Dover, New Jersey, will be hosting an...
Nick acquires Turtles for $60 million
Another giant IP deal unfolded yesterday, as Viacom/Paramount/Nickelodeon acquired the rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for $60 million.
Created in 1984 by...
The Missing Post Caper
As I mentioned yesterday, I'm blogging from a remote locale, and unfortunately in all the travel tumult yesterday, some posts that were "under construction"...
The lost Best Comics of 2008 Meta-List–reconstructed
Last year, blogger Dick Hyacinth presented the world with a time-consuming project -- compiling the 2007 best comics of the year lists into...
What’s it REALLY like to be a blogger???
As we continuously hyped, we were on a panel at the Royal Flush Festival on Saturday about blogging, along with celebrity news blogger Michael...
George Tuska: 1916-2009
Veteran artist George Tuska has passed away at age 93. Tuska's career spanned the Golden Age with work for the Iger/Eisner shop, Lev Gleason,...
RIP: Captain Lou Albano
Longtime wrestling manager Captain Lou Albano passed away today at the age of 76. In the 1970s, Albano was one of the big three...
Toronto Comic-Con announced, NOT featuring Warren Ellis
A print ad in Wizard magazine announces the dates and venue for the Toronto Comic-Con (formerly Paradise Con) as March 26-28, 2010. However, a...
