Review: Japanese artist Rokudenashiko charts the real obscenity in her memoir
Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less stressed in the headlines was that the court also found...
Rokudenashiko, the vagina kayak artist, is fined ¥400,000 for obscenity
We've been telling you about the legal woes of Japanese artist Rokudenashiko for a while now. She was convicted of obscenity for selling prints of a 3D scan of her intimate area but had not been sentenced. Now, just a few days before her appearance at TCAF, she's been fined ¥400,000 by a Tokyo Court, about US$3717.
Report: Jailed Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani to be freed next month
In a world where cartoonists and other artists are often on the front line of social change, they unfortunately also sometimes pay a price with harassment, jail time or worse. Even so, the case...
The truth about that “$10,000 VIP room” at a comic con is actually pretty...
The other day I ran a story about a guy named Jonathon Wall who is being charged with a felony in Utah for trying to use his Federal ID to get into what was claimed to be a "$10,000 VIP room" at the Salt Lake City Comic Con.
Something about that didn't set right with me.
The case of the $10,000 comic con VIP room
Wow, this story has it all. Unattainable glamour, a desperate scheme, legal drama. And a mystery I can't answer.
Appeals court rules that 2001 agreement covers Siegel/Superman case
What may just be the FINAL final decision in the long running case to get the rights to Superman back to the Siegel family was announced on Wednesday, with the 9th Circuit Court of...
Con Wars: Salt Lake and San Diego maybe closer to settling
The ongoing trademark battle between Salt Lake City Comic Con and the San Diego Comic-Con may be closer to settling, although it's only listed as "promising," with the judge in the case giving them...
SDCC ZombieWalk hit-and-run driver found guilty
Matthew Pocci, a Comic-Con volunteer who ran over a woman during the 2014 SDCC ZombieWalk was found guilty yesterday and now faced up to three years in prison.
The jury deliberated only a day...
The FBI is invetsigating the dissappearance of Norman Lee
Back in March we reported the sad news that comics artist Norman Lee had disappeared while snorkeling the Cayman Islands, and was presumed dead. But in a strange twist, it turns out that an...
Siegel Case Argued On Appeal — Again
Today's oral argument in the Siegel case is up on YouTube - and no, this isn't a rickroll.
As noted in my article reporting on the scheduling of today's panel, the odds did not appear...
ZombiCon Shooting – 1 Dead, 4 Wounded
Gunfire at the Ft. Myers charitable event created a real-life running zombie herd, but the organizers' security safeguards may have helped prevent further harm.
Shootings have become a depressing fact of life here in the...
NYCC ’15: Diversity Sells Out
Diversity is a recurring theme in panels at this year's New York Comic-Con, mirroring a trend in fandom nationwide.
Race, gender, physical ability, mental health, even geeks as an emerging protected class - amidst...
