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Tweet Jack Kirby would have been 92 years old today. Bully has a 24 hour tribute, with hourly posting. Spurge has a visual tribute. We’ll link to the epic Merry Marvel Marching Society recording, which, although it does spotlight other Marvel personnel, also includes the King’s voice and personality as it was heard.
Tweet KPBS.org reports that the task force assigned to determine the future of a planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center, has approved the expansion. They decided that the $750 million project was feasible and would have a positive impact on the region. How to pay for the project? The task force presents several [...]
TweetVia PR: The Japanese manga and animation powerhouses Shogakukan Inc., Shueisha Inc. and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd. (Shogakukan & Shueisha Group) announced today their joint acquisition of Kaze S.A.S. (Kaze) and Anime Virtual S.A. (Anime Virtual), two of Europe’s leading distributors and licensees of Japanese animation. With this acquisition, the group positions itself as a [...]
TweetAccounted by some as the third biggest comics/pop culture show in North America and definitely the biggest one in Canada, Fan Expo Canada 2009 kicks off today in Toronto, with a full service slate of celebs, comics folk, and horror and SF peeps. Marvel and DC are exhibiting, along with several other companies, including BOOM!, [...]
TweetThere were a couple more iPhone comics announcement in our inbox this morning, bringing the approximate number of iPhone related comics announcements this week to 5,684 or so. Rather than run them all we’ll refer you to ICv2′s brief overview of the field which notes that the number of companies offering comics on iPhones has [...]
Tweet§ATTENTION SCUM BABY HEADS SPANNERS PLAGUE COCKS That’s from TalkLikeWarenEllis.com, hours or minutes of fun: This page randomly generates a Warren Ellis-like greeting based on his tweets. All respect and credit for the words here should be given directly to him, we just thought it would be funny to do this. Please don’t destroy us, [...]
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