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Shopping Guide: Dave Dorman’s Star Wars prints on sale
Dave Dorman, voted "#1 Star Wars Artist of All Time" by fans, we're told, is having an online STAR WARS Holiday Print Sale of...
Disney to release Studio Ghibli titles on Blu-Ray: Pom Poko, Porco Rosso and Tales...
February 3rd will see the release of three Studio Ghibli films on BluRay for the first time. Porco Rosso, the tale of a World...
New CAF: CXC in Columbus from Smith and Spurgeon
And here's the official word on that new comic arts festival that people were alluding to at ICAF: Cartoon Crossroads Columbus or CXC, which will be a lot more than a CAF, really. The event will debut in 2015 as a two-day event (held October 2-3) and then grow into a four day festival in 2016. The show has a four person executive committee consisting of Cartoon Books' Jeff Smith and Vijaya Iyer, Comics Reporter's Tom Spurgeon and Billy Ireland Library founder Lucy Caswell. Smith is the Artistic Director, while Spurgeon will be the Festival Director. Can you say heavy hitters?
WinterCon is coming to Queens, NY
Wait there is ONE MORE CON for New Yorkers! It's called WinterCon and it will be held December 6th in Queens at the Resorts...
Con season winding down with Comics Arts LA
It's been a long, long year of cons, with new ones springing up every where. The CAF season is winding up with Comic Arts...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/24/14: No one remembers this old DC series, but what it...
§ In case you missed it, that half million dollar Tezuka Kickstarter missed the mark by a huge margin. Johanna Draper Carlson has commentary....
Weekend Webcomics: Michael DeForge’s “Winter Break” will make you want to eat turkey
Here's a little holiday jam to get you in the mood for next week's Turkey Marathon. Upchurch removed as Rat Queens artist following arrest
Rat Queens co-creator Kurtis J. Wiebe has posted a statement regarding his co-creator Roc Upchurch's recent arrest for domestic violence after attacking his ex-wife. The upshot: Upchurch is off the book.
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come: Comic Arts Brooklyn Interviews
Recorded at Publishers Weekly, it's More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and The...
Special edtion of City of Glass: The Graphic Novelgoes up on the PEN Auction
The US branch of the international literary organization PEN America is holding an auction of "Firest EDitions/Second Thoughts" tpo help support its mission of...
Holy cow, James Jean
After some well publicized difficulties, artist James Jean has been back making great art for a while now. And better than ever, as this already sold out print Seasons may indicate. Yet Another Must Read: Jeff Trexler analyzes the Kirby settlement
I've long been awaiting Jeff Trexler's analysis of the Marvel/Kirby Settlement, and he starts a two-part piece with Should the Kirby Family Have Settled? In case it hasn't been explicitly stated enough, it was Trexler's exploration of the potentially ground breaking work for hire aspects of the case that Kirby family attorney Marc Toberoff seems to have used to get the Supreme Court to even look at the case. To allow it to go to decision would have established an important precedent—but it was extremely risky for the Kirby heirs:
