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Celebrating it's 14th year, the National Book Festival moves to the Washington Convention Center this Saturday, offering twelve hours of bibliophila!  (The National Park...

Veteran showbiz writer Drew McWeeny rocked the world of superhero movies this week with his claim that he's heard many times that humor is superhero films is being given the side eye at Warner Bros. :

The comics e-CON-omy is growing by leaps and bounds, but splitting off into many factions and circuits. While pop culture has always been a big part of comic cons, the cross-over with autograph shows is creating hybrids whose success varies from market to market, Last weekend's Wizard World Chicago (and the Fan Expo in Toronto which is on as you read this) are among the largest, and the former, in particular, was definitely like the blind men and the elephant -- everyone had a different perception depending on where they were standing.

The dynamic duo of Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt seems to have set up shop for some of their non-creator owned work at Valiant Comics, and new they're joined by Paolo Rivera for The Valiant, a new four issue prestige mini-series. An they've got Franceso Francavilla doing variant covers as well—along with Kindt and Lemire—so it's a nice art-a-palooza. It's nice to see Valiant stepping out with new titles, and especially great to see Rivera back on interior art—he's best known for his impressive MArvel covers but since stepping back from that we haven't seen nearly enough of his stylish art around.

As they do periodically, TCJ.com is running a cartoonist diary; this week it's Eleanor Davis. Her collection How To Be Happy is out now...

Corey Murphy, formerly of Laughing Ogre,  has joined Image as director of retail sales and will be working with comics shops on retail issues. Image...

The San Diego city council's denial of the Convention Center expansion the other day has left a lot of questions for the city—like can...

It's The King's 97th birthday today, but who needs an excuse to celebrate the mans vision, talent and tenacity? Kirby's granddaughter Jillian is spearheading...

Huh, well blow me down with a womp rat. Over the 20 years of Dark Horse's Star Wars license they built up a healthy...

And it's a doozy as always -- PR provided some highlights but I can tell you I won't miss that alt-weekly panel....90s NOSTALGIA PEOPLE....

I can't say this was unexpected, but here we go again: after the threat of endless legal battles, environmental group opposition, the lack of...

§ You will need to go through several sign-up tests to get to this Psychiatric Times article about the use of comics in psychiatric...