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There was much rejoicing last week when it was announced 80s cartoon mainstay Jem and The Holograms is coming back as a live-action movie, with the production crowd sourced in some cases. . The movie will be directed by Jon Chu who previously made both Step Up and GI Joe Retaliation, which is the perfect resume for a movie about a female rock band that has adventures.

So this is why God gave us the internet: Todd Spence created these True Detective homages in the form of Hardy Boys detective novel covers. More in the link.

§ Hasn't Little Nemo been in the public domain for a while? It's surprising that everyone is doing Little Nemo tributes now, including IDW and Locust Moon comics. Zainab Akhtar previews the Dream Another Dream, the Locust Moon offering and the page above by Jeremy Bastien is but one of several gobsmacking pages already seen. YOW.

http://www.cbsnews.com/common/video/cbsnews_player.swf Even in a world where major media coverage of comics personnel is a daily habit, this profile of The New Yorker's cartoon process by...

March 22, 1994 was the debut of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1, the first appearance of Mike Mignola's now-iconic character. There have been special...

Oni just released a preview of their 2014 output and it's an eclectic mix for sure with books by familiar faces such as Ray Fawkes and Cullen Bunn, but some new people as well. (Can you guess which one is our favorite? Hint; Meow meow meow meow.) Here's what to look for in the graphic novel line-up for summer 2014 and beyond.

Over the last few years I've done a series of panels called "How to Get News Coverage" (organized by Rik Offenberger) at various cons...

TRIBES the Dog Years is a SF graphic novel about a world where no one lives past the age of 21, that originally came...

S.P.A.C.E. (Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo) is yet another comics-related event in Columbus. This will be the 15th year for the show, making it one of the granddaddys of the indie "CAF" circuit and it claims to be "the midwest's longest running exhibition of small press, creator owned  and art comics." This year it will be held April 14 and 15th at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Columbus and sponsored by Back Porch Comics.

Fox announced it future Marvel moviesslate last night, including a sequel to the FF movie they haven't even shot yet. But Fox has to...

§ Zen Pencils is a website where a cartoonist named Gavin Aung Than takes famous speeches written by other folks and turns them into comics. It was the subject of a famous beatdown by Abhay Khosla who tagged it as vapid pap that stole other people's thoughts, and some other folks think it's just fine and signed it to a book deal. Perhaps Than was stung by some of the haters because he just penned his first ORIGINAL cartoon, called "The Artist-Troll War" and it is a bit...on the nose. It is in four parts;

It's that time! Time for the #1 graphic novel of the year to be announced!