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This New York Comic-Con badge thing is wild this year. They are much harder to get this year than before, and it seems a ton of people just don't have one. But want them. You can buy them on StubHub ($130 for Saturday, $159 for a four day pass), or Craigs List or Ebay, although I'm told this practice is NOT condoned and next year procedures will prohibit badge resale. I posted yesterday that I have one badge for a writer to help cover the show (alas, Henry Barajas won't be coming as planned) and the response was kind of overwhelming.

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Ed Piskor's HIP HOP FAMILY TREE is one of the cooler comics of the season—a detailed history of the music and the people who...

Somewhere in the Long Slog Of 2013's Comic Book Movie summer, I probably suggested that 2 Guns might end up being the most important film in terms of how Hollywood deals with comics properties (relatively low budget non superhero fare); how true that will be remains to be seen but it DEFINITELY was the most important film for Boom! Studios. They've just signed a first look deal with 20th Century Fox, that, at least in the hype rollout, sounds promising in terms of how it involves comics creators:

Al Jourgensen is back, and...he...he's writing a comic book. It will be drawn by Sam Shearon, a British artist who has worked on such comics as KISS and a 30 Days of Night spinoff but is best known for his album covers for such folk as Rammstein, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Iron Maiden, KISS, A Pale Horse Named Death and Fear Factory.

Like a Phoenix from the ashes...in our recent obituary for MTV Geek we noted that the NY Post's Parallel Worlds site also seemed to be gone. And indeed, a NY Post website design claimed its young life. However, undeterred, editor Den Greenfield has teemed up with Asbury Park Comicon's Cliff Galbraith for a NEW SITE, 13th Dimension.

I find Dash Shaw's work to be strangely invigorating. I admit I had some reservations when I first saw the daunting heft of his Bottomless Belly Button, with its absurdly extended passage of a man running and profusely sweating, drawn in a style so crunchy that it makes Gary Panter look slick. The idea that all we cartoonists must now draw books that are at least three inches thick and that take several years of deprivation to accomplish thanks to the efforts of obviously dedicated workhorses such as Shaw and Craig Thompson was not a pretty one. But I was eventually to resign myself to this new order.

Comic NEws Insider is a very well established podcast at this point—and it just posted its 500th episode with a gala list of...

Launched last year at San Diego Comic-Con, Madefire aims to be both a publishers and platform for developing next level motion comics/future comics/whatever you...

Mark Waid's taken to his blog to write some advice for freelance writers who are just breaking in - or trying to break in...

By now everyone including the Hollywood trades has linked to Steve Bissette's Facebook post about the Constantine TV show and the fact that he...

The comic miniseries Nightworld is a saga of psychodramas between cunning devils, gross monsters, and the inner demons of regret of lost love. It's...

Here's a pretty huge story that kind of slipped below the radar yesterday: Dark Horse Book has shifted from Diamond to Random House for...