Winter may still have the northeast US in its icy grip this weekend as many NY-area sf aficionados take in Lunacon (see Glenn’s item below), but in southern California it’s as sunny as ever, and the warmth will be felt by fans and pros alike at WizardWorld LA, the first of this year’s four WizWorld…
According to the website 24dash, Coldplay’s Chris Martin has been playing a mean game of catch-up since his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, was cast as Pepper Potts in Marvel’s upcoming Iron Man film. Martin is said to be a huge Iron Man fan, and has spent big bucks buying up hundreds of Iron Man issues "to…
Via Lisa at Sequentially Speaking, Joao Garcia climbed Mount Everest’s north side eight years ago, and has decided to tell his story via comics, publishing a limited, 2,000-print adaptation of his Everest story book A mais Alta Solidao (The highest solitude), illustrated by Ricardo Cabra. Read his interview with ExplorersWeb here. This appears to be…
Last month, blogger Tim Leong reported about South Korean comic author Rhie Won-bok, who wrote in Meon Nara, Yiwoot Nara (Far Countries, Near Countries), his so-called educational comic book series about different countries, that "The Jews are the invisible force that controls the U.S." At the time, Rhie stood by his words, adding, "I wrote…
It was all a misunderstanding, admitted the Billings, MT chief prosecutor. Seems a deputy prosecutor misinterpreted an e-mail from a colleague who used the phrase "unicorn defense" as an actual statement from Phillip C. Holliday Jr., whose truck crashed into a light pole last week. Seems "unicorn defense" is a slang term used by prosecutors…
The Beeb reports that a man accused of a stealing underwear at knifepoint from a lingerie shop in Belfast, Northern Ireland "believed he was a female elf at the time." Robert Boyd is accused of having purloined two sets of bras, knickers, suspender belts and stockings from the shop on 14 December, 2005. He had…
Effective next Monday, the Washington Post will be rearranging its comics page adding the strips Agnes and Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!, as well as the "offbeat panels" Brevity and Speed Bump. In order to make room for these new comics, the Post will be dropping the panels The Flying McCoys and The Other Coast, as…
Yesterday, Joe Pruett announced on the Desperado website that his company would be parting ways with Image this summer after a partnership of 2½ years. Black Mist #4, solicited for May, will be their final co-publishing venture, and other titles like Common Foe and Paul Jenkins Sidekicks will finish out their run at Image. Pruett’s…
Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, has emailed industry professionals an update on their efforts to help Dina Babbitt, a survivor of Auschwitz whose portraits of fellow concentration camp victims (which commandants forced her to paint) are currently in the possession of (and on display at) the Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Despite my first claim to “fame” being a self-published zine in the ’80s called INSIDE JOKE, I admit to having a limited tolerance for deconstruction and meta-winks in storytelling. To me that sort of linking and meta-footnoting belongs in essay-writing and blogging; in fiction, more often than not it becomes a form of cultural cannibalism…
As someone whose first reaction to the news about Bravo acquiring Television Without Pity was, "Uh, what’s Television Without Pity?", I greatly identified with, and applauded, this clever substitution of Captain America’s dialoge from a page of Civil War Frontline #11, wherein one Sally Floyd conflates pop-culture trendiness with actual American values instead of a…
More good news for all those teen readers! Meg Cabot, author of the popular Princess Diaries series, will be making the foray into comics with Avalon High: Coronation, a manga sequel to her novel Avalon High brought to us by the ever-expanding Tokyopop (which also answers the question "whatever happened to Jinky Coronado?", as Coronado…
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