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A lot more art has just gone up for the fundraiser Art for Sandy which is raising money to help those impacted by the recent hurricane. About 80,000 people are still without power, and...

...from selling his house. Famed cartoonist/playwright/screenwriter/all-around genius Jules Feiffer is leaving Manhattan, and selling his Upper West Side apartment, a biggish four-bedroom, 3 1/2 bath affair that he probably paid far less than $4.395 million for 34 years ago.

Danger specializes in foreboding visions of deserted structures menaced by mysterious figures. We could look at it all day. More here.

Just a very brief K 'n' B this time out; we have a giant stockpile of links but not a lot of time today. § The story of Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi's sojourn on Bigg...

by Mike Scigliano After having given some heavy insight into what exactly it takes to produce a well run comicon it's time to show you exactly what all of that hard work you put in...

In 1977 Dial Press of New York published Robert Mayer’s first novel, Superfolks. It was, amongst other things, a story of a middle-aged man coming to terms with his life, an enormous collection of 1970s pop-culture references, some now lost to the mists of time, and a satire on certain aspects of the comic superhero, but would probably be largely unheard of these days if it wasn’t for the fact that it is regularly mentioned for its supposed influence on a young Alan Moore and his work, particularly on Watchmen, Marvelman, and his Superman story, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? There’s also a suggestion that it had an influence on his proposal to DC Comics for the unpublished cross-company ‘event,’ Twilight of the Superheroes. But who’s saying these things, what are they saying, and is any of it actually true?

We were stunned by last year's spectacular Halloween display by Gary Leib at Brooklyn's own Desert Island Comics, and he's back for 2012 with an all new display. Leib has lots more Halloween goodness at his tumblr.

Catching up on closing those tabs, here are some interviews well worth your time. Math Horizons interviews xkcd's Randall Munroe on some of his more mathematically complex comic strips: MH: How did you determine how...

By most accounts, this past New York Comic Con was a success, giving fans access to all kinds of stars, comics and otherwise, and presenting a news fusillade on many topics. It was also crowded, congested and teeming with people. Crowding has been a serious issue at NYCC ever since the very first one, which was shut down by state troopers and left many people who had purchased tickets stuck outside. Since then the madding hordes have ebbed, but mostly flowed. Crowd control was pretty horrible in 2010, and got a little better in 2011—but my witnesses say it was back to 2010 levels this year.

Cameron Stewart's excellent webcomic Sin Titulo has finished and will get a hardcover collection from Dark Horse next year. The strip, described as "a dark, neo-noir semi-autobiographical mystery thriller concerned with dreams, family, and memory" launched in 2007 as part of the TX webcomics collective, and has continued on, with a few lengthy breaks, ever since. It won the Eisner Award for Best Webcomic in 2010

by Matt O’Keefe Welcome to Six In Six, where I ask comic folk six questions and get my answers in six minutes or less. Here at NYCC 2012 I’m asking creators about their experience with...

As I mentioned in the opening column, when it comes to landing a bestselling title there are a lot of moving parts. I remember an editor talking about book campaigns during a panel session at Book Expo back in 2005 and he said most authors don’t realize that we put just as much effort into marketing and campaigning for a book as they do in writing it. Never were truer words spoken. From determining which audience the book is best suited for, what the cover should look like, how to build the buzz, and when the book should hit-these are all critical elements that need the same level of concentration as the writer has given to characters, dialog and setting.