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WonderCon may still find its heart in San Francisco someday

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I had a brief chat with San Diego Comic-Con's David Glanzer about WonderCon staying in Anaheim for another year for for PW, and talks...

Time Warner gets the hell out of the print business—except for DC

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Continuing the major media conglomerate's purge of anything to do with print, Time Warner is ditching the Time part of its name:= and spinning...

RIP Al Plastino, the man who replaced both Kirby and Schulz

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Golden age artist Al Plastino has died after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 91. Plastino was best known as a Superman...

Things to do today: Benefit for Stan and Sharon Sakai

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As we've been reporting here for a while, Sharon Sakai, wife of Usagi Yojimbo cartoonist Stan Sakai has been undergoing a long, costly illness....

Special Beat Investigation: Comics Critics Crisis!!!

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A few months ago there was a Kerfuffle over a comics which some indie comics enthusiasts thought was artistically exciting, while others couldn't see that for all the racism in these comics. I wrote about it at the time, and wondered if indie comics—so lively and vibrant—were actually being given a larger social context.

Jeff Smith’s Tüki Save the Humans has launched!

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HERE! Smith's much talked about new webcomic is set 2,000,000 years in the past and follows the first humans to leave Africa and their adventures....

Stan and Pauline Goldberg recovering from car accident

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Longtime Archie artist Stan Goldberg and his wife Pauline were injured in a car accident while driving home from the OSU festival last...

Photos: 1980’s cosplay was just as sexy, but they seemingly didn’t know how to...

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This gallery of photos from a 1980’s SF Convention has been floating around for a while, but it just crossed my timestream. While all convention photos from every era share a few things—gaudy hotel carpet backgrounds, at least one ill at ease looking guy with a pencil mustache, women with flaming red hair—this one does prove a few things. Although they didn't call it "cosplay" back then —I believe the term was costuming—obviously people liked dressing just as scantily.

HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: Drawn and Quarterly’s Black Friday 40% off sale

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You heard me, D&Q, one of the all tme great comics publishers, is having a 40% off sale just in time for BLck Friday....

Katniss beats Batman at the box office

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Catching Fire, the second in four planned movies based on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy, scored the biggest November debut ever at the box...

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