Japundit (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
In an obscenity first, a U.S. comic book collector has pleaded guilty to importing and possessing Japanese manga books depicting illustrations of child sex abuse and bestiality.
Thinking Animation Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Shel Dorf, a prominent comic-book collector who was the architect behind the pop-culture showcase in San Diego now known as Comic-Con, has died. He was 76. read more...
Progressive Values (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Actor Nicholas Cage is having some serious money woes right now. He's suing his former business manager for $20 million, contending that this manager failed to pay his taxes among other contentions. Now, Nicholas Cage owes $6 million in taxes. There is however a dispute whether his manager mismanaged his finances leading to this situation, or whether an overly lavish lifestyle could have resulted in...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The very first issue of X-Men #1--sold for $101,000 at a Missouri rare comic book auction--apparently setting a world record for comic book pricing. The 1963 comic was penned by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby . According to Digital Spy , the auction sold 3,000 comics for more than one million dollars, auctioning off an epic collection of comics inherited by an anonymous relative of a deceased comic...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
As a child, Dorf was an avid comic reader and collector. The first convention drew 300 people in 1970. More than 125,000 attended this year's edition of the pop-culture showcase. Shel Dorf, a prominent comic-book collector who was the architect behind the pop-culture showcase in San Diego now known as Comic-Con, has died. He was 76.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
As a child, Dorf was an avid comic reader and collector. The first convention drew 300 people in 1970. More than 125,000 attended this year's edition of the pop-culture showcase. Shel Dorf, a prominent comic-book collector who was the architect behind the pop-culture showcase in San Diego now known as Comic-Con, has died. He was 76.
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Electronic Arts plans to ship a "limited quantity" of Mass Effect 2 Collectors' Editions when the space role-playing game hits the PC and Xbox 360 in late January. The collector's edition will come...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
It turns out that Patrick Gaspard, a former ACORN operative now working in the White House, was instrumental in getting Dede Scozzafava to endorse Democrat Bill Owens instead of the conservative-backed Doug Hoffman. Steeped in New York politics, he played a pivotal role in the effort over the weekend to persuade Republican State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava to endorse the Democratic candidate in the...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
ST. CHARLES — Roy Delic remembers what it was like to hold the first comic book he ever bought with his own money — and Sunday, he was willing to spare no expense to experience a taste of that moment once again.Decades have passed since Delic raced to a store as a 5-year-old with a dollar bill and bought a Batman comic book, but his feeling of wonderment over the book has never waned.On...
Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
ST. CHARLES, Mo. | Comic book collectors are excited over an upcoming auction in St. Charles — an auction involving more than 3,000 well-preserved old comic books found in the basement of a suburban St. Louis home. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported today that the find includes a copy of Spider-Man’s first appearance in print, in issue 15 of the comic book Amazing Fantasy.
Misinterpreted Imperfections (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
I LOVE IT!! I LOVE IT!! IF YOU HAVEN'T YET READ OR BOUGHT THIS NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL THEN YOU ARE 'MISSING OUT!!' I can't explain it, its one of those novels that hooks you in from the start. The first caption, that piece of brilliantly worked art is like a drug. Once its pumped in, you're hooked! That is my personal meaning to the addicition that is Comics. The combination of hard hitting, crime busting...
Get The Science Fiction Buzz (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Comics are in some ways a reasonable investment. For collectors comic book selling is a hard proposition - they just love reading them. But it can
ephemera (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Could this magazine be worth as much to Fashion collectors as the first Superman is to comic collectors? That's the question raised by the eBay seller offering the first issue of Glamour of Hollywood from 1939. (It's just called Glamour...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Written by David Gallaher; Art and cover by Steve Ellis Zuda Comics High Moon is the first winner in the Zuda Comics online monthly competition and follows bounty hunter Mtthew Macgregor to the god forsaken town of Blest, Texas. What he finds and what finds him takes the reader on a path through vain glory, true heroism and a troublesome if rugged indivudalism that leaves the series as firmly rooted...
The Red Eye (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Following the mightily succesful launch of Burke and Hare at BICS 2009 last week Will and Martin were out and about spreading the word to the next generation. Over to Martin for his write up of the event: "Will and I gave some talks last Tuesday to 5th and 6th year high school pupils at two North Lanarkshire libraries about Burke & Hare, and the response was fantastic. Many of the kids were...
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