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In a shocking court reveal over the fate of one of the world's most beloved and influential comics characters, a Dutch court has ruled...

If Special Edition: NYC was a comic book, probably Warren Ellis would have written it and Brandon Graham or Geof Darrow would have drawn it. It was a perfectly fine show, with a great guest list and good time, but the venue, Pier 92, was...picturesque. I was last there five or six years ago for a Wizard show and in the intervening years it became even more decrepit, with plastic bags collecting yellowing rainwater, as giant air ducts throbbed like the Alien Queen's thorax, and damn river air curled pages and hair. I had a perfectly good time (I was only there on Saturday) and here are the pictures!

Photo by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Fun Home, the musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel won five TOny Wards on Saundya, including Best...

The Special Edition website can be a little hard to navigate in terms of panels so better late than never here's a COMPLETE text...

I have to admit, if I hadn't committed to going to SE: NYC I would totally be at the Grand Comics Fest, a small one day indie show that has a great lineup or cartoonists and some exciting comics debuts. You can see the lineup in the card above.

Torsten has the all stops out pedal to metal preview of SE: NYC but a reminder that tickets for NYCC will be on sale...

Things are kicking into high gear worldwide for comics shows. So much is kicking off tomorrow. Here's a very quick look at some of them. In London's Crouch End a 2nd year CAF is taking place, the Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival or CECAF, organized by Sean Azzopardi.

Marvel unleashed the first teaser image for the new rebooted/relaunched Marvel U this morning, and it contains SHOCKS—Agent Coulson? Red Wolf?—SURPRISES—No X-men or FF...

The new two day launch event for CXC in Columbus has been the buzz among cartoon circles for a while now and the website is now open with the initial guests: Kate Beaton, Jerry Beck, Bill Griffith, Françoice Mouly, Jeff Smith, Art Spiegelman and Craig Thompson. AND the first round of events, below. The exhibitor application form is in the above link and, well, this is surely going to be a hoedown for the comics. Oh and a new logo by Dustin Harbin, above.

The Humble Bundle model of "bundling" digital comics for a pay what you want price (while offering a percentage to charity) has had a...

Warner Bros film head Greg Silverman was interviewed for The Hollywood Reporter about the ongoing Harry Potter and Lego franchises and, oh yes, the DC movies. As as usual the "how are you different from Marvel?" question comes up. And it's all about master filmmakers, perhaps a meow about Marvel's more generic—and massively successful—take?

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