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Charles Burns completes his Nitnit trilogy with Sugar Skull and here’s the cover
The third volume of Charles Burns' great Nitnit trilogy is finally coming out in December! It's called and it completes the story from The Hive and X'ed out about the varying levels of reality among a man who has overdosed, a weird world of worms where a reverse Tintin named Nitnit is finding his way, and angsty drama that will be familiar to readers of Black Hole.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 4/8/14: RIP Jeff Pert
§ Maine cartoonist Jeff Pert died suddenly at age 53. Pert was known for his local humor, and his cartoon books were a staple...
2014 Glyph Award Nominees Announced
The 2014 nominees for the Glyph Awards, honoring the best in African America comics and characters have been announced. The awards will be presented on May 16th at the ECBACC show in Philadelphia. The deadline for voting in the Fan Award is Friday, May 2, 2014.
MoCCA Festival 2014 quick recap
I'll have a longer report (HA) later, but to hold you over here is Robyn Chapman's MoCCA Festival wrap-up at The Tiny Report,...
Congrats to Janna O’Shea and Michael Zagari!
While people were not watching Wrestlemania or Game of Thrones yesterday, some were getting married, including popular comics folks Janna O’Shea and Michael Zagari,...
MoCCA Award of Excellence Winners announced — and here’s where you can get them
Saturday night at a rockin party at the Socirty of Illustrators, the winners of the 2014 MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence were announced....
Comics sales: some say the world will end in fire, some say in dollar...
So is the great comics boom over? DC's New 52 initiative in September 2011 kicked off a boom in comics sales that has seen...
Three Days Remain to enter the Dorkly Fan Art Contest
Dorkly is a sister site of College Humor that offers a lot of comics and gaming-related humor, but in a positive, not mean spirited, way. They're ramping up a lot of their offerings including launching a a series of events based around nerd-centric gatherings.
One of the first is the Dorkly Fan Art Expo , where fan art will be displayed at C2E2 April 25-27.
MoCCA Party Poop: From Robert Williams to Pinball
Con be damned, it's MoCCA Time -- I'll be running some previews and debuts througout the day -- but here's all the party poop...
To Do Saturday: MoCCA after parties expand to include pinball
If you are a MoCCA Fest old timer, you remember one of the fun parts of the Puck Building days was that after the...
The Beat MoCCA Festival Dining Guide — 2014 Edition: Cauliflower and Brussels Sprouts
Photo of Kalustyan's via
Five years of MoCCA at the Lexington Armory! We've seen a lot of pizza come and go. Although the area surrounding...
A tale of two Kevins: Feige and Tsujihara
The two most powerful people in comics— Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige—were both the subject of fairly hagiographic profiles recently. The Feige piece in Businessweek was probably the more revelatory, as it offered ACTUAL INFORMATION on the very secretive Marvel Studios process, and the legacy of Ike, such as the following account of the dorm-level offices.
