Michael George hearing
Pittsburgh Comic-Con co-owner Michael George has been arrested in the 17-year-old murder of his wife, and a preliminary hearing was held last week at...
2007 Ignatz winners
The 2007 Ignatz Awards were presented tonight at SPX in a (hopefully) short and peppy ceremony. The awards were completely hijacked when Nicholas Gurewitch...
Sounds more like an X-men fan to us
Killer thought he was Superman, mother says:
When the teenage rapist and killer nicknamed Pyro was an 11-year-old boy, he not only idolized Superman, he...
Layoffs at ADV
ANN is reporting a new round of layoffs at anime company ADV, which just recently started getting back into the manga publishing game:
An...
Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize
Official accounts mention her "sci-fi" period.
Short, stout and a bit hard of hearing, Ms. Lessing was sharp and straightforward in her comments. After a...
Alexie, Selznick nab NBA noms
Two sort-of comics-related projects have garnered National Book Award nominations. Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian which was illustrated...
Priego stopped at the border
The Comics Reporter reports that Mexican scholar Ernesto Priego has been denied a visa for his appearance later this month at ICAF, the international...
O'Reilly joins Platinum
In a somewhat unusual indie-to-indie hiring move, Arcana Studio's e-i-c Sean O'Reilly has moved over to Platinum to run their animation arm:
Platinum Studios, Inc.,...
More on the Comics Press/Newsarama
Chris Butcher had a post on the state of comics journalism a few days ago that everyone should read. In it he basically echoed...
Marder leaves McFarlane
A recent posting at Larry Marder's blog confirms what we'd been hearing on the grapevine: the forner Executive Director of Image and McFarlane Toys...
Damned cable outages
Apparently it's sun spots??? Or the UN General assembly. Or the Second Avenue Slasher.
Thanks to all the kind folks who responded to my SPX...
Pathetic Plea
I'm looking for a ride from NYC down to Bethesda for this weekend's Small Press Expo. Normally I would have no problem taking public...
