Hitting the road
We're off to LA for the BEA and we're going to have limited online time due to being forced to hit the road wit
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Tokyopop: Hey, dude, totally bad contract!
UPDATE: Check out Johanna's list of Tokyopop’s greatest mistakes over the past two years:
The reviews are in! And Tokyopop's online contract for the...
2008 Manning Award nominees
PR:
Comic-Con, the nation’s largest comic book and popular arts convention, announces this year’s nominees for the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award (or The Manning...
2008 Reuben Winners
As previusly announced Al Jaffee (Above) won THE Reuben, but many other awards were given out over the weekend:
Newspaper Panel: Chad Carpenter
Edtorial...
Shuster Award Hall of Fame winners announced
Stanley Berneche, John Byrne, Pierre Fournier and Edwin R. “Ted” McCall have been annoucned as the 2008 inductees into the Canadian Comic Book Creator...
Brill goes BOOM!
Ian Brill makes the jump from blogger/journo to the man who makes the sausage, joining Boom! as Games Workshop editor. Congrats, Ian! We'll miss...
2008 Friend of Lulu Nominees
The 2008 Friends of Lulu Award Nominations have just been announced. (Above image by Hope Larson.)
Kim Yale Award:
MARTINA FUGAZZOTTO (senior designer, gURL.com)
KIKI JONES (gURL...
Al Jaffee wins Reuben
Alan Gardner reports that Mad's Al Jaffee gas this year’s Reuben Award for the Outstanding Cartoonist of the year. Congrats!
A little Friday afternoon gossip
* Just got off the phone with a well-known, award winning cartoonist who was advertised as appearing at an upcoming convention. Apparently he was...
Judge upholds Michael George conviction
A judge has refused to overturn the conviction of Michael George this morning. The defense had attempted to get the jury's guilty conviction vacated...
Breaking news: Comics are expen$ive!
Newsarama adds up the costs of this year's big crossover events and finds they do not come cheaply. For SECRET INVASION, after toting up...












