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As crowdsourcing has become a normal part of financing creative projects, a few bad apples have soured the barrel with non delivery. A few months ago, the FTC announced it would start looking in to Kickstarters that don't deliver and now a Seattle court has ordered the creators of the Asylum Playing Cards Kickstarter—Altius Management and Edward J. Polchlopek—to pay over $54,000 in fines and settlement.

Comics Beat hosts its first panel at Long Beach Comic Con 2015 and we've got a Lollapalooza of a line up.

Ronald Wimberly has a new two page comic in this week's The New Yorker recounting a trip to New Orleans ten years after Katrina...

This year's Ignatz Award nominees have just been announced, and if you needed a reminder that 2014 was an awesome year for comics, here you go. This year's judges— Lamar Abrams, Cara Bean, Robyn Chapman, Sophie Goldstein and Corrine Mucha—have a great selection from the fairly popular (March, SuperMutant Magic Academy) to the up and comers (Sophie Goldstein's The Oven, Sophia Foster-Dimino's Sex Fantasy.)

A somber start to the morning as reports roll in that 51 year old Leonard Robinson, better known to countless children, families, and members...

D23, the big Disney fanfest, just concluded three days of programming at the Anaheim Convention Center. There was a lot of news! New movies announced!...