RIP Ellen Vartanoff

03/25/2019 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald 1 Comment

The longtime fan and teacher passed away earlier this month.

INDIE VIEW: Uncovering the life of Schlitzie in ‘Nobody’s Fool’

03/15/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven 6 Comments

John Seven reviews ‘Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead by Bill Griffith’

Review: Never mind the Justice League, here’s ‘The Antifa Comic Book’

02/18/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven 17 Comments

John Seven reviews ‘The Antifa Comic Book’ by Gord Hill

Review: There’s power and dignity in these ‘Vietnamese Memories’

02/08/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven 1 Comment

Clement Baloup’s gorgeous and moving stories of the Vietnamese who settle in America

SPIDER-MAN: LIFE STORY Time Travels Through History

12/12/2018 5:58 pm by Samantha Puc

How would the world have been different?

A long lost photo of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee has surfaced

11/16/2018 1:15 pm by Heidi MacDonald

A mystery photo has emegred with a scene we’ve all longed to see for years.

Comics and animation lost another key figure this week. Fred Patton, a protean champion of early anime/manga fandom passed away at age 77 this week. He had been confined to a nursing home after a stroke in 2005, but continued writing and pursuing his interests in anime. Until then he wrote widely about anime, […]

A lot of people have said a lot of things about Stan Lee

11/14/2018 10:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

A round-up of the best takes on Stan’s passing and some of my own thoughts.

Stan Lee has died

11/12/2018 1:56 pm by Heidi MacDonald

It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that Stan Lee has died.

Three Great Comics for Midterm Tuesday

11/06/2018 1:00 pm by Ricardo Serrano Denis

The midterm elections are upon us and we need comics to survive it. This year’s voter turnout is projected to rival that of the 1960s, when the counterculture was at its peak and when the political rifts that divided the nation rivaled those that led to the Civil War a century earlier. Comics offered a […]