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Steven Gettis On CR's Sunday Interview With Trina Robbins
(7/3/09)
Craig Yoe On CR's Sunday Interview With Trina Robbins
(7/3/09)
Joe Keatinge's Open Letter On The Harvey Award Nominations
(7/1/09)
Kendall Clark On Latest Round Of Xeric Recipients (PR)
(6/30/09)
Dan Merritt On Neil Swaab At The Green Brain Comics Store In Dearborn, Michigan (PR)
(6/28/09)
Colleen Frakes On Book Release Party In White River 070309 (PR)
(6/28/09)
Bob Scott On The CR Site
(6/27/09)
Somebody at Quimby's On Paul Buhle Signing Off-Site 7-12 (PR)
(6/27/09)
Curtis On The Possibility Of John Byrne Doing An X-Men Forever Type Book
(6/27/09)
Craig Yoe On The Possibility They're Hiring at yoe! studio
(6/27/09)
Phil Lee On The CR Sunday Interview With Darwyn Cooke And Ed Brubaker
(6/27/09)
Chris At Zeus Comics On Greg Rucka Signing 6/27 (PR)
(6/24/09)
Jackie Estrada On Posh New Venue For Eisner Awards (PR)
(6/19/09)
James Vance On That Tekno Mall Kiosk Photo
(6/19/09)
John Vest On Neal Adams Ending The Silver Age
(6/15/09)
Peter Ogura On An S. Clay Wilson Comic He Can't Find In Published Form
(6/15/09)
James C. Langdell on The New Seth Interview and John Cage's Indeterminacy
(6/7/09)
James Sturm On My Response To His Essay on Virginia Lee Burton
(6/2/09)
Ellen S. Abramowitz On The Welcome To MoCCA Festival 2009 (PR, Sort Of)
(6/2/09)
Steve Lafler On The Total Ticket Sell-Out At CCI
(5/30/09)
Lawrence Klein On Storefront Artist Project's Art Of Scott Hanna In Pittsfield, Massachussets (PR)
(5/28/09)
Shannon Smith On Grant Morrison's Surprise Appearance In A 1965 Del Shannon Video
(5/28/09)
Jackie Estrada On Exhibit A Press At Monsterpalooza, May 29-31 (PR)
(5/27/09)
JS Kuth On Carol and Chuck Tyler Signing on June 13 In Cincinnati (PR)
(5/27/09)
John Vest On Paul Pope's Adam Strange
(5/27/09)
Antonia Santangelo On Identification Day At The American Museum Of Natural History (PR)
(5/27/09)
James Sturm On His Haitian Hobo Lecture (PR)
(5/27/09)
Charles Brownstein On The CBLDF Book Expo Welcome Party 05-28-09
(5/26/09)
Mark Nevins On June 3 Event With Nicolas Mahler and Mark Newgarden (PR)
(5/25/09)
John Vest On Ed Brubaker's Run On Captain America
(5/23/09)
Somebody At Quimby's On Archer Prewitt Signing June 20 (PR)
(5/21/09)
Karl Erickson On MoCCA Festival 2009 (PR)
(5/20/09)
Charles Brownstein on the CBLDF's Summer Membership Incentives (PR)
(5/19/09)
Greg Hatfield On The New Impact University Pro Comics And Art Workshop (PR)
(5/19/09)
Jason Thibault On Publishers That Still Look At Submissions
(5/19/09)
Karl Erickson On David Mazzucchelli Show At MoCCA (PR)
(5/18/09)
Marko Turunen On The Closing Of The Daada Site
(5/16/09)
James Van Hise On Not Being Able To Read Jim Vance's Tekno Article
(5/16/09)
Gabriel Roth On The James Turner Editorial
(5/15/09)
Josh Fitzpatrick On The James Turner Editorial
(5/15/09)
Philip Rippke On The Darwyn Cooke Interview
(5/15/09)
Douglas Mullins On The Subscriber Model PictureBox Is Using For Two Forthcoming Books
(5/15/09)
Jimmy Palmiotti On The Darwyn Cooke Interview
(5/15/09)
James Vance On The Darwyn Cooke Interview
(5/15/09)
Andy Kuhn On The Darwyn Cooke Interview
(5/15/09)
David Brothers On The Darwyn Cooke Interview
(5/15/09)
Don MacPherson On The Darwyn Cooke Interview
(5/15/09)
Daniel Peretti On An Article That May Have Appeared On CR
(5/9/09)
Buzz Dixon On The True Nature Of Funky Winkerbean's Interracial Relationship
(5/5/09)
J. Chris Campbell On Appearing In Greenville, Wide Awake Press Free Download (PR)
(5/2/09)
JP Coovert On One Percent Press And FCBD (PR)
(5/2/09)
Eric Reynolds On FCBD at the Fantagraphics Store (PR)
(5/2/09)
Josh Blair On Candy Or Medicine FCBD Special (PR)
(5/2/09)
Dylan Williams On Sparkplug's, Teenage Dionsaur's and Tugboat Press' FCBD (PR)
(5/2/09)
John Kovaleski On Free Bo Nanas And Appearing In York PA (PR)
(5/2/09)
Robert Brown On FCBD In Athens (PR)
(5/2/09)
Paul Richardson On Starting FCBD A Day Early (PR)
(5/2/09)
Jeremy Cesarec On Zot! FCBD Giveaway (PR)
(5/2/09)
Carl Pietrantonio On That Kid Looking At Wall Of Comics
(4/27/09)
Dave Scroggy On the Inappropriateness Of Today's Art For Jan Mullaney's Birthday Shout-Out
(4/27/09)
Someone Form Gosh! Comics On Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill at Gosh! Comics (PR)
(4/26/09)
Evan Dorkin On An Addendum To This Week's Five For Friday About Day-Of Purchases
(4/26/09)
Sean Kleefeld On Last Friday's Five For Friday
(4/26/09)
Kevin Pyle On WWIII #39 Release Party 04-30-09 In NYC (PR)
(4/24/09)
Jason Leivian On The Full Of Pryde Event At Floating World Comics (PR)
(4/23/09)
Tim O'Shea On Learning Who Justin Chatwin Is
(4/22/09)
Victoria From Thanky On A Forthcoming Ron Rege Jr. Show (PR)
(4/21/09)
Jacq Cohen On Dark Horse's MySpace Talent Search at Stumptown This Weekend (PR)
(4/17/09)
Dustin Harbin On Mark Waid And Roger Langridge Attending HeroesCon 2009 (PR)
(4/16/09)
John Vest On The Magic Of Librarians
(4/16/09)
Devlin Thompson On The State Of Modern Newspaper And The Crappiness Of Old Ones
(4/16/09)
John Vest On Essential Dazzler Volume 2
(4/14/09)
Jim Blanchard on the Trucker Fags in Denial Fine Art Print (PR)
(4/12/09)
Katrina Weidknecht On Craig Yoe At The Comic Book Club (PR)
(4/11/09)
Matthias Wivel On Turkey's Objections To Anders Fogh Rasmussen As NATO Head
(4/11/09)
Chris Butcher On Filling Out The TCAF Guest List (PR)
(4/11/09)
Ng Suat Tong On CR's Archives
(4/11/09)
Tim O'Shea On CR's 2009 Eisner Nomination
(4/11/09)
Tom Williams On SPACE 2009 (PR)
(4/11/09)
Michael Aushenker On Cheap Serial Comics
(4/6/09)
Cyrus Marriner on Potential Viruses at the Free Comic Book Day Site
(4/6/09)
Ben Towle On Whether That Media Rate Judgment Against The Comics Charity Was New In Any Way
(4/6/09)
Comics For Cures On Their Annual Sketch Card Auction (PR)
(4/6/09)
The RAW Junior Folks On The Harry Bliss Tour (PR)
(4/6/09)
Lino Gorlero On Being Wished A Happy Birthday
(4/6/09)
John Simons On Comicpalooza's Guest List And Basic Information (PR)
(4/6/09)
James Langdell On The CR Week In Review Covers
(4/4/09)
Dustin Harbin On Frank Cho and Brandon Peterson Coming To Heroes Con 2009 (PR)
(4/1/09)
Laura Hudson On Cosmic Monkey's Forthcoming 24-Hour Event April 12 (PR)
(3/31/09)
Daniel Vonegidy On The Lack Of Wondermark In The Webcomics Round-Up
(3/31/09)
J. Caleb Mozzocco On Why I Didn't Immediately Get Lots Of Webcomics Suggestions
(3/31/09)
Tom Hart On This Year's KGB Annual Easter Graphic Novel Reading (PR)
(3/30/09)
William Baker On EMU's Comics Show And Reception (PR)
(3/30/09)
Vito Delsante On Geoff Johns' JHU Store Appearance 04-01-09 (PR)
(3/28/09)
Annie Murphy On Annie Murphy's Release Party (PR)
(3/28/09)
Dylan Williams On My Inappropriate Interpretation Of His Robot 6 Interview And My Agenda
(3/24/09)
Tucker Stone On GQ Is Doing Awesome And My Being A Disrespectful Smart-Ass
(3/18/09)
Danny Fingeroth On Danny Fingeroth's Eisner Presentation (PR)
(3/17/09)
I Get The Best E-Mail: This One Was Slugged "Penisher"
(3/17/09)
Robert Boyd On The Best Of 2008
(3/16/09)
Some Namelss MoCCA Functionary On Thursday's Watchmen-Related Lecture (PR)
(3/16/09)
I Know Joe Kimpel On Trivial Anthology Debut Event April 3, 2009 (PR)
(3/16/09)
Alex Cox On Sunday's Five For Friday Results
(3/15/09)
Jason Michelitch On Whether A Comic's Quality Has An Effect On Wanting To Read It On-line Or Not
(3/13/09)
Jason Michelitch On Adam Casey's Critique Of My Watchmen Piece
(3/13/09)
Tim O'Shea On Sin Citification
(3/12/09)
Ted Rall On AAEC Still Having Their Seattle Convention This Summer (PR)
(3/9/09)
Adam Casey On Taking Issue With Part Of The Watchmen Film Review
(3/8/09)
Alan Choate On My Self-Consciousness
(3/8/09)
Danny Fingeroth On A Will Eisner Panel He's Doing (PR)
(3/7/09)
Kumar Sivasubramanian On Frank Santoro's Criticism Of The Birthday Wishes
(3/7/09)
Michael Grabowski On The Gene Day Award At The Shusters
(3/7/09)
Tim O'Shea On Frank Santoro's Criticism Of The Birthday Wishes
(3/7/09)
Sean Howe On Watchmen's Secret Origin
(3/7/09)
Frank Santoro On Too Many Birthdays
(3/3/09)
Shannon Smith On Those Bookscan Numbers And Their Like
(2/26/09)
Sean Craig On Bob Rae
(2/24/09)
Mike Lester On Beating People To Death and Hypocritical Irony
(2/21/09)
Tim O'Neil On That Kitty Pryde Art
(2/21/09)
David Glanzer On Comics-Related Stuff at WonderCon (PR)
(2/21/09)
Michael Jantze On His Master Class at CAM (PR)
(2/21/09)
John Platt On Being My Favorite New Comics Person
(2/19/09)
Justin Colussy-Estes on DCD Dumping Viz Backlist And Providing Another Reason To Bypass Comics Shops
(2/19/09)
Jason Green On The Second Round Of Naruto Nation And My Confusion Over Its Explicit Purpose
(2/19/09)
Ben Ostrander On The Great Jack Jackson And His Potential For Inclusion In The Eisner Hall of Fame
(2/19/09)
Dennis O'Neil On Teaching A Writing Course at NYU (PR)
(2/19/09)
Adam Casey On Why X-Men Forever Might Have An Audience After All
(2/19/09)
Andre Molotiu On the Five For Friday About Ebaying After Items From The Comics
(2/19/09)
Alex Holden With A Photo Of Tom Gauld At Angouleme Signing Someone's Tiny Sketchbook
(2/19/09)
Jai Nitz, Jaime Portillo and Julian Lawler In El Paso 021709 (PR)
(2/12/09)
Sean T. Collins On Comics At NYCC 2009
(2/11/09)
Kevin Huizenga On The Appropriateness Of The Cancellation Of Or Else As A Result Of Diamond Policy
(2/9/09)
Karl Erickson On Art of Watchmen and Special Screening Of Watchmen Film (PR)
(2/7/09)
Tim Broderick On New Diamond Minimums
(2/2/09)
Austin English On The Fall Of The Alt-Comic Book
(2/2/09)
Colin Panetta On Changes At Diamond
(2/2/09)
Evan Dorkin on An Appearance, February 4
(2/2/09)
Michael J. Grabowski On The Fall Of Alt-Comics And The Frequency Of Their Publication
(2/2/09)
Danny Fingeroth On Jules Feiffer Interview (PR)
(2/2/09)
James C. Langdell On Changes On The Comics Page At The San Francisco Chronicle
(2/2/09)
Shawn Bowman On Portland (OR) Graphic Novel Tours
(2/2/09)
John Vest On Bill Everett And Early '70s Marvel
(1/26/09)
Bryan Munn On The 1968 Sub-Mariner Series
(1/26/09)
Jason Gott On Borders' Post-Xmas Returns
(1/23/09)
Stefan Dinter On 25 Great Things About Being A Comics Fan
(1/23/09)
Michael Nicolai On The Best Thing About Shonen Jump
(1/23/09)
Some Anonymous Person On A January 24th Benefit For S. Clay Wilson
(1/23/09)
Michael Tisserand On His George Herriman Book
(1/23/09)
John Vest On Having Received Nature Comic #3 From PBS
(1/23/09)
Dick Hyacinth On Blue Lips On President Obama
(1/23/09)
Christian Maiwald On The Size Of KE7
(1/18/09)
Brian Hibbs On Where He Disagrees With My Disagreements About His Most Recent Column
(1/18/09)
ComicsPro On Their Forthcomng Memphis Meeting (PR)
(1/15/09)
ComicsPro On Marvel Making Stand Hardcover DM Exclusive (PR)
(1/15/09)
Frank Rizzo On The AJC Only Dropping A Half-Page Of Comics
(1/14/09)
John Vest On 25 Great Things About Being A Comics Fan
(1/12/09)
Daniel Vonegidy On 25 Great Things About Being A Comics Fan
(1/12/09)
Russel Lissau On A Bookstore Appearance, 1/22/09
(1/10/09)
John Vest On DNAgents
(1/7/09)
John Vest On CR Holiday Interview #12: Matt Fraction
(1/4/09)
Nat Gertler On Yes, There Have Been Comics Preceding A Movie
(12/20/08)
Someone At Diamond On The Free Comic Book Day Line-Ups (PR)
(12/18/08)
Nat Gertler On Mo Willems As A Cartoonist
(12/18/08)
Nat Gertler On CR's Ten Unanswered Questions
(12/17/08)
Stephen Weiner On How Comics Will Survive The Economy's Downward Spiral
(12/17/08)
Kyle Garret On CR's Ten Unanswered Questions
(12/17/08)
Joe Field On CR's Ten Unanswered Questions
(12/17/08)
Todd Allen On CR's Ten Unanswered Questions
(12/17/08)
Kurt Busiek On George Booth's Ip Gissa Gul
(12/17/08)
Some Press Flunky On Tony Shenton Working With BOOM! (PR)
(12/17/08)
Kim Thompson On Bart Beaty's Review Of Emile Bravo's Spirou Book
(12/12/08)
Charles Boucher on Dame Darcy at Countermedia (PR)
(12/10/08)
John Vest On Eros Comix
(12/10/08)
Rich Watson on 2009 Glyph Awards Call For Submissions And Judges (PR)
(12/1/08)
Ryan Cecil Smith On Black Jack As A Character
(11/29/08)
Mark Coale On ComicsPro Coming Out Against Selling Stuff Ahead Of Street Dates
(11/29/08)
Vernon Wiley on Final Crisis #2-4 For a Buck Apiece
(11/29/08)
Stefan Dinter on Anna-Marie Jung Appearance 12-05-08 (PR)
(11/29/08)
Jennifer De Guzman On My Looking For A Specific Word
(11/22/08)
J. Caleb Mozzocco On Why Batman: Cacophony Is Its Own Series
(11/22/08)
John McCorkle On Another Prix de la Critique Nominee Out There In English
(11/20/08)
Rob Barker On Steve Gerber
(11/16/08)
Brian Moore On One Strip Retiring, Another Strip Benefiting
(11/16/08)
Noel Murray On Problems With Comics.com
(11/16/08)
Jason Michelitch On First Thought Of The Day
(11/16/08)
Alvin Buenaventura on the Kramers Ergot Vol. 7 Tour (PR)
(11/14/08)
Sean T. Collins On The Watchmen Movie Poster With Silk Spectre II
(11/12/08)
Dan Shahin of Hijinx Comics on the United Media On-Line Initiative
(11/9/08)
Michael J. Grabowski On The Way Comics Unfold Now Making Them More Susceptible to Economic Trauma
(11/6/08)
Chris Pitzer on Rafael Grampa at Desert Island In Brooklyn, 11-14 (PR)
(11/6/08)
Nat Gertler On How Many Peanuts You Can Actually See At Comics.com
(11/6/08)
Nat Gertler On Publishers That Also Own Retail Establishments
(11/6/08)
Amaury Laporte On Massive NYC European Graphic Novel Celebration (PR)
(11/3/08)
Darko Macan On Just So Bart Won't Have The Last Word...
(11/3/08)
John Vest On Mark Millar's Statement About Comics Creators Having A Shelf Life
(11/3/08)
Shannon Smith On Comics Pricing
(11/3/08)
Kumar Sivasubramanian On Ladies Comics Magazines
(11/3/08)
John Vest On Prince Valiant: Far From Camelot
(11/3/08)
Aaron Dumin On Five Scary, Eerie, Chilling or Otherwise Unsettling Comics
(11/3/08)
Some MoCCA Functionary on MAD Magazine Cover Show (PR)
(10/26/08)
Some MoCCA Functionary On Kim Deitch-Related Events At MoCCA (PR)
(10/26/08)
John Vest On Warren Ellis, Ruins and 1990s Mainstream Comic Books
(10/25/08)
Eric Knisley On Five Beautiful Comics Characters and The Artists Who Drew Them That Way
(10/17/08)
Chris Butcher On Shaun Tan's Appearance At The Beguiling 10-28-08 (PR)
(10/17/08)
John Vest On Tales To Astonish #77
(10/17/08)
Mark Coale On The Hulk Vs. The Executioner
(10/16/08)
Shannon Smith On 24 Decrees By Emperor Spurgeon
(10/12/08)
Mark Haven Britt On SPX Books He Thought Were Awesome
(10/12/08)
Michael Aushenker On Five Manga Series He's Reading
(10/11/08)
Jacob Goddard on Five Manga Series He's In the Midst of Reading
(10/10/08)
James Kingman On Our Remarkable Feet of Spoileage
(10/10/08)
John Sayers On The Federal Digitization Collaboration (PR)
(10/5/08)
Nat Gertler on David Welsh's Response to the Minx Imprint's Cancellation
(10/4/08)
Mike Rhode on Minx Imprint's Cancellation
(10/4/08)
Katherine Kan On Minx Imprint's Cancellation
(10/4/08)
Michael Grabois On How Many Legion of Super-Heroes Series There Have Been
(10/4/08)
Danny Fingeroth On His Five Favorite Monsters
(10/4/08)
Suzanne Williams On Art Spiegelman's Fall Tour (PR)
(10/3/08)
Audrey Fischer On Israeli Comics Lecture at Library of Congress 11-06-08 (PR)
(10/3/08)
Stephen Robson on Fanfare/Ponent Mon at SPX (PR)
(10/3/08)
JP Trostle on Orphan Works Bill Working Way Through House
(10/2/08)
Peggy Burns On Lynda Barry's Fall 2008 What It Is Tour Dates (PR)
(10/2/08)
The Public Affairs Office at the Library of Congress On Swann Foundation Fellowship Applications
(10/2/08)
Dean Haspiel on Jonathan Ames' Mini-Tour in Support of The Alcoholic (PR)
(10/2/08)
Dylan Williams on Hot Breath of War Tour (PR)
(9/30/08)
Kyle Garret On How Many Series The Legion Of Super-Heroes Have Had
(9/30/08)
Don Sticksel on 50 Things Every Comics Collection Needs
(9/30/08)
Joe At Comicbook.com On The Awesomeness Of Comicbook.com (PR)
(9/28/08)
Chris Arrant On Four Superpowers He Has And One He Wants
(9/27/08)
Craig Fischer on the New Yale University Anthology Edited By Ivan Brunetti
(9/27/08)
DC Comics On Minx Imprint's Cancellation (PR)
(9/25/08)
Darko Macan on BoDoi's Publisher Dire Proclamation That You Can't Sell A Print Magazine About Comics
(9/24/08)
Dash Shaw and Gary Panter at Duke Event Information Because Duke's Web Site Completely Sucks (PR)
(9/24/08)
Christopher Duffy On Five Comics With Female Leads
(9/20/08)
John Vest On Meat Cake And The Good Times Killing Us
(9/20/08)
Michael J. Grabowski On Changing One's Orientation Towards Comics
(9/20/08)
Derik A Badman on Five Titles That Clearly Offer Female Leads
(9/20/08)
Michael Aushenker on Five Titles That Clearly Feature A Female Lead
(9/20/08)
Vito Delsante on Five Comics Clearly Featuring Female Lead Characters
(9/20/08)
Andrew Horton On Five Comics With Female Leads
(9/20/08)
Brian Fies On Writing About Process
(9/19/08)
Jamey Owen, Age 14 or 38, On Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #1
(9/18/08)
Tucker Stone On Simon Baker
(9/18/08)
Kevin Greenlee On Goodbye To Print Iteration Of Clear Blue Water
(9/18/08)
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Announce Incognito (PR)
(9/16/08)
Domingos Isabelinho on Ron Cobb
(9/14/08)
Jason McNamara on Martian Confederacy Signing 9/13
(9/13/08)
Chris Mautner on DC Lettering The Curse Words It Blocks Out and My Internship Office
(9/11/08)
Ali T. Kokmen on Comics Is Strange
(9/11/08)
Nick Marino on Target Selling Comic Books After All
(9/11/08)
Kirsten Baldock on Submissions Opening for the 2008 Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics (PR)
(9/11/08)
Steve Jamrozik on Why There Isn't Early Shipping to DM Stores
(9/9/08)
Mark Coale on the Street Dates Question
(9/9/08)
Adam Casey on the Reality of New Comics Day
(9/9/08)
Kyle Garret On Comics For Kids
(9/9/08)
Sean T. Collins Answers All Of The Confessional Questions
(9/8/08)
Vernon Wiley on Friday's Write-Up of the new Chicago-Area Store
(9/8/08)
Brandon Graham Answers Many Of The Confessional Questions
(9/8/08)
Richard Starkings Answers All Of The Confessional Questions
(9/8/08)
Mario! Answers Many of the Confessional Questions
(9/8/08)
Paul Pope Answers All The Confessional Questions
(9/8/08)
John Vest on Comic Book Shops Then and Now
(9/5/08)
Frank Santoro on Seattle, NYT
(9/5/08)
John Vest on Journey and Comics From 20-25 Year Ago
(9/2/08)
Josue Menjivar on Jack Kirby's 91st Birthday
(8/31/08)
Vito Delsante on Kyle Baker at JHU 09/03 (PR)
(8/30/08)
Derik A Badman on the Other KE Coming Out This Fall
(8/28/08)
Fred Hembeck on Blogging Like It's 1996
(8/28/08)
Brian Moore on the Richard Thompson Go-Looks
(8/28/08)
Michael Grabowski On Comics-Related Films
(8/27/08)
Mark Brodersen on His Five Favorite Comics Pre-1958
(8/27/08)
James Sturm on Alec Longstreth/Chris Wright Exhibit Opening (PR)
(8/26/08)
Aaron Dumin on The Likelihood of My Getting My Wish For TCJ #300
(8/25/08)
Dustin Harbin on Watchmen as a Gateway Book
(8/23/08)
Jeff McLaughlin on the Final Fate of the Stan Soapboxes Yellow Sheets
(8/23/08)
Wesley Osam On His Favorite Comics From Before 1958
(8/23/08)
John McCorkle On His Favorite Comics From Before 1958
(8/23/08)
Greg Holfeld On His Favorite Comics From Before 1958
(8/23/08)
Domingos Isabelinho On His Favorite Comics From Before 1958
(8/23/08)
Don Sticksel On His Favorite Comics From Before 1958
(8/23/08)
Tucker Stone On His Favorite Comics From Before 1958
(8/23/08)
Dave Knott On His Favorite Comics From Before 1958
(8/23/08)
Fred Hembeck On His Favorite Comics From Before 1958
(8/23/08)
Matt On Gilbert Shelton's Forthcoming Signing Via Gosh! Comics (PR)
(8/20/08)
Jim Kingman on Alan Moore's Difficulties With Watchmen Including Difficulties With DC Comics
(8/18/08)
Hugh Stewart on One of My Recent Batman Comments
(8/16/08)
Katherine Wong On Nickelodeon's First Ever Best Kids Graphic Novel Awards (PR)
(8/16/08)
Justin Colussy-Estes on Comics at the Decatur Book Festival
(8/16/08)
Matt Maxwell on Batman Year Two and Fantagraphics Publishing Dr. Strange
(8/16/08)
John Vest on the State of Traditional Alt-Comics Publications
(8/16/08)
Dustin Harbin on KE Vol. 7's $125 Price Tag
(8/16/08)
Chris Mautner on Whether or Not Shops Stock Back Issues of Optic Nerve to Sell As Comic Books
(8/16/08)
Chris Mautner on L&R Going With a Spine
(8/16/08)
Emily Man on September Events at Orbital Comics (PR)
(8/11/08)
Russell Lissau On His August-September Appearances (PR)
(8/9/08)
Mason Adams on Post-Doonesbury Hiatus at the Roanoke Times
(8/8/08)
Steven Stwalley On Runes of Ragnan
(8/7/08)
Dan Shahin on East Vs. West in Bookscan Numbers
(8/7/08)
Dustin Harbin on Mark Millar/Tony Harris Appearance at Heroes in Charlotte 8/17 (PR)
(8/7/08)
John Vest On Comics Being Too Darn Expensive... Or Not
(8/7/08)
Craig Johnson on IDW Potentially Leaving Comic-Con International
(8/6/08)
Matthew Dube on Frank Stack Art Being Exhibited
(8/6/08)
Johnny Ryan on My Obit-Writing Skills
(8/6/08)
Wayne Spencer on Adding Orlando to the Local Scene List
(8/6/08)
Alan David Doane on Wondering Why I Think KE 7 Will Be a Monster Hit
(8/5/08)
Frank Santoro on the Comics Pamphlet
(8/5/08)
Jason Michelitch on Steve Rude Painting Evan Dorkin
(8/5/08)
Sean T. Collins on Watchmen Movie Hype
(8/4/08)
Josh Lambert on Watchmen Movie Hype
(8/4/08)
Kirk Warren on His Daily Contests in Celebration of One-Year Anniversary of Blogging
(8/4/08)
Josh Feldman on the Empty Hollywood Suits Invading Comic-Con International
(8/2/08)
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