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Things you must read
This has nothing directly to do with comics but this brilliant piece by Eric Alterman in The New Yorker is one of the best...
And it doesn’t even have nipples
Michael Keaton's Batman costume from Batman Returns is up for auction and it's expected to fetch $60-80K :
The impressive outfit from the 1992 sequel,...
RIP: Raymond LeBlanc
Belgian comics publisher Raymond LeBlanc (above left, with Hergé) died on March 21 at age 92. Best known as the publisher who gave Tintin...
New tools, new fools
We've been tinkering with our blogging set-up a bit. Ecto 3 still doesn't cut it for features, so we're still using the now unsupported...
Stan Lee feted at NYCC
Legendary Stan Lee will be given the first New York Comics Legend award at this year's New York Comic-Con. Lee will be presented with...
2008 Eisner Award Hall of Fame Nominees
PR with emphasis added. Of some interest is the fact that now what we'd call "modern" or contemporary Marvel and DC creators are beginning...
Economic Report #2: Books not so hot
Yesterday's announcement that Borders was having a tough time coming up with financing for expansion and was contemplating a potential sale led to a...
Economic report #1: Toys okay
The San Jose Mercury News asks if the shaky economy could lead to slashes in sales for all those movie spinoff toys that are...
Borders on the block?
Jim Milliot at Publishers weekly is reporting that the Borders book chain has hired J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch to help them look...
D&Q: Breakin’ the law
If you were going to pick on an indie comics company as a scofflaw, Montreal's ultra-civilized Drawn & Quarterly would be the last one...
Bin Laden doesn’t like cartoons
On the fifth anniversary of the start of America's dumbest war ever, Public Enemy #1 Osama bin Laden reportedly dissed the Mohammed cartoons in...
