Tag: Comics

HeroesCon 07Guest List: It’s Forever Growing! It looks like a preliminary guest list for Heroes Con 07 in Charlotte has been posted to the site.  I’m glad to see some Indy Island “regulars” already on the list–folks like J Chris Campbel, Chris Pitzer… and me! Press-wise, it’s nice to see both Matt Brady of Newsarama …

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I’ve been avoiding linkblogging of late, but I stumbled across this on the Robert Crumb site today and I’ve not seen any mention of it on the internets.  Click through the image below for the page on the Crumb site with the skinny:

With the release yesterday of Windows Vista and its somewhat onerous music and video content management/monitoring systems, digital rights management, a.k.a. “DRM,” is a topic that’s once again on people’s minds. DRM is, in short, technology used by someone who owns a copyright on digital intellectual property to attempt to protect that property from illegal …

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I was looking through Diamond’s solicitations that are due in this week to see if there’s anything I wanted to order last minute, and I noticed that Drawn & Quarterly was soliciting a collection of the first fifty or so issues of John Porcellino’s King Cat Comics. I like Porcellino’s work and ordered the book, …

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In what will likely be the final installment of this tempest in a teapot that wasn’t–namely last week’s Get Fuzzy story arc–I’ll post a small update with a few bits of info I received yesterday from folks who read my initial posts. First off, I heard back from my friend at our local paper, The …

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