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The fascinating history of Mad Magazine -- including how it changed from a comic book to a magazine to escape the 1950's moral panic about comics, particularly the horror comics that were very popular at the time.

This weekend is Con+Alt+Delete, the winter companion show to Anime Midwest. It had never been a spectacular show for us, largely because of the high booth costs in proportion to the attendance and the level of spending by the crowd. Last year it did so poorly that we were seriously considering dropping it even before the unpleasant events of ( Read more... )

I was double-checking the Windy City Pulp and Paper website for dealers' room hours, and discovered a note that Gahan Wilson has dementia and his family is putting him in a memory care unit.

Here's an interesting nugget from the Fencon programming schedule ( Read more... )