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Jeebus, its getting so you can't even throw a SMALL press show without melting servers and frustrated tweets. Table registration for this year's Small Press Expo went live yesterday at noon, EDT. And it seems that the servers promptly crashed due to the overwhelming demand. While we missed the actual event, it's pretty easy to follow the trail of the tweets:

Warrior took nearly a year from its original inception in the spring of 1981 to finally reaching the shelves in March 1982. The contents...

You might have heard that Greg Rucka and Michael Lark have a comic coming out from Image.  It's called Lazarus and it's coming out...

I noticed a common feature in the comics I was reading this week, a feature that made them all compelling as stories: the role...

Good news everybody! Today has seen two more Kickstarter projects funded: Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton's GOLDTIGER, as well as Steven Sanders' SYMBIOSIS. Both...

Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a stunning coming of age story considered a classic by many, has been ordered removed from Chicago's Lane Technical High School for reasons that remain unclear.

Since planning for Comic-Con is now a year-round endeavor, here's some of the latest news for July's megafest. § The much-debated convention center expansion...

Palookaville #21 is on its way, and while the looong running CLyde Fans serial is on hold, Seth digs into his own life story in the cheerfully titled "Nothing Lasts." Seth may be gloomy but he's also one of our all-time favorite cartoonists, we'll race to pick this up.

Trip City Presents "You'll Have to Save That For Another Time" by best selling author (and McSweeny's editor) Dave Eggers and artist Noah Van Sciver (The Hypo).

Programming has been announced for this year's MoCCA Festival, to beheld May 4-5 in NYC. Tickets can be purchased at the above link the poster by Michael DeForge has been unveiled, all systems are go.

by Lea Hernandez - My long-time friend Toren Smith has passed away after a protracted bout of ill health, and I'm heartbroken. I worked for him over the course of seventeen years as part of his elite Studio Proteus team; doing retouch on adult comics, and rewriting titles like 3x3 Eyes, What's Michael? And Oh! My Goddess!. If Toren had lived another year, I would've known him for exactly half my life.

Okay he was only the head of Marvel for six months during Ron Perelman's murky march to bankruptcy—in fact he was the guy in charge when Marvel filed—but former Marvel CEO Scott Sassa has been canned from his current gig at Hearst after steamy texts from a Las Vegas stripper showed up somewhere they shouldn't.