STAPLE! dates announced
STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo, an indie comics fest in Austin, TX has announced its 2007 dates:
The date is set for STAPLE! 2007:...
Iranian cartoonist wins Serbian award
Comics bring the world together:
An Iranian cartoonist won the second award of the Belgrade "Golden Smile" Cartoon competition in Serbia.The Iranian cartoonist, Shahrokh Heydari...
Do you need a mammogram?
CANCER VIXEN author Marissa Acocello Marchetto is sponsoring a day of FREE mammograms tomorrow and hopes some women artists will sign up. That's pretty...
Miller starts new comics company beginning with “A”
Recently Mike S. Miller announced that Alias Comics was turning into a packaging company for religious comics, and Alias's non-religion themed comics would be...
What it takes
Lloyd Grove explains the life of the gossip columnist:
But I have also learned, after nearly eight years of writing a daily column in both...
2006 Ignatz Award Winners
It was a little hard reporting, as we were also MCing, but thanks to Douglas Wolk, here are the winners. Congrats to all!
Outstanding Artist
Tony...
Gene Yang reax
Via SFGATe, Gene Yang's reaction to AMERICAN BORN CHINESE's historic National Book Award nomination:
"I'm in shock," said Yang, who missed the call from...
On the road again
We're in transit to SPX as you read these words. Which means we had to get up at an hour best not even considered....
AMERICAN BORN CHINESE nabs NBA nom
Wow. Gene Yang's AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, published by First Second, has scored a National Book Award nomination in the YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE category. These...
Meanwhile, on the East Coast…the Quills
Our Scream Awards viewing was interrupted by attending a real live event, the Quill Awards, honoring the best in books via voting by the...
Scream Awards air
We caught only a few moments of this, due to pressing sleep-related matters, but managed to see the Best Comic Book Award with winner...
