Great sadness. Legendary comic artist Joe Kubert has passed away at the age of 85. We extend condolences to his friends and family, and to the incredible comic art school he established in 1976 ( Read more... )

If you read the 1970s Pyramid paperback editions of Harlan Ellison, not to mention a whole lot of other books and record albums over most of the past fifty years, you knew the art of Leo and Diane Dillon.

Great sadness, as Leo Dillon passed away earlier this week at the age of 79. Our condolences to his companion and collaborator, Diane, and ( Read more... )

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Great sadness. Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, best known for Where The Wild Things Are, has passed away at the age of 83 ( Read more... )

Great sadness -- another of the legends has passed. Artist and designer Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, has passed away at the age of 73 ( Read more... )

Great sadness -- one of the visionaries has died. Ralph McQuarrie, best known as the production illustrator for Star Wars, has passed away at the age of 82 ( Read more... )

• A reminder that I'll be performing at 7:00 p.m. tonight at Epic Loot Games and Comics in southern Dayton, OH. Admission $12, $20 for couples, and don't forget to bring a non-plush toy for the Dayton Ronald McDonald House.
• Run For Your Lives is a series of 5K races with a twist... the living dead!
• Our friend jimhines is noted by io9 for showing us the goods.
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Geeks Are Sexy calls our attention to the works of Coran "kizer180" Stone, who takes beloved characters from TV, movies, comics, anime, video games, etc., and tweaks them in dark, wonderful ways. The Mario pictures are excellent, the Lupin III vs. Inspector Gadget makes me want to see the movie that goes with that poster, and the Return Of Oz is ( Read more... )

In case you haven't seen it yet, "The Call of Cthulhu" Seussified.

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Chances are decent that you've at least heard of DC Comics' very recent reboot of their entire universe, many aspects of which are not going over very well. Fortunately, it is the nature of fans to come up with pretty nifty Alternate Universes (or in this case, I guess Unauthorized Elseworlds).

By way of io9, we learn how Aaron Diaz, creator of the ( Read more... )