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NPR has an interesting little story on three notable recent entrants into the comic book industry coming from other media (no big surprise on the subjects chosen):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87867518
Crazy, I had no idea Joss Whedon’s father was a writer for The Electric Company.

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I have a beef with Clifford Meth.
OK, well, more specifically, I have a beef with Clifford Meth’s Yahoo! e-mail account.
You may recall that a few weeks back I shared news about Meth helping the fiscal security of the late Dave Cockrum’s widow, Paty, by facilitating the selling off of Cockrum’s personal comic collection. I wrote […]

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Comic book artist Dave Cockrum — co-creator of the modern-day X-Men — died on Nov. 26, 2006. While this is obviously not news, I was recently reminded by long-time Cockrum friend and collaborator Clifford Meth that the sale of Cockrum’s personal comic book collection is still going on.
The sale is to raise money for Cockrum’s […]

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Howard the Duck creator and comic book legend Steve Gerber died yesterday right here in my own backyard. He was at MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas being treated for pulmonary fibrosis. It’s eerie, because he was blogging the whole time (up until about a week ago) and still working on new comic book material in […]

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(Photo courtesy SpyOnVegas.com)
Yes, that is Frank Miller in the photo above, looking pleasantly amused by the birthday cake presented to him at CatHouse last night. I’m still waiting on more details of the evening, but you can click here to see a gallery of photos from the party, including Rosario Dawson and Jamie King. (UPDATE: […]

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It’s very rare when my personal interests intersect my professional ones, as my full-time job — running the Las Vegas “industry” blog DailyFiasco.com — involves celebrities, fine dining and nightclubs, things I don’t care much for usually. It’s even rarer when a post I write for Fiasco would be of interest to you sequential-art-loving people […]

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I was reading Sean Kleefeld’s blog (as usual), and today he told the story of his friend who he recently inspired to get back into comic book reading/collecting. To sum it up (though you should go read it), the friend got turned off by the gimmicky ’90s speculative collector-targeted market, recently came back and began […]

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Hot damn, Pop! Goes the Icon faithful! Your favorite new-ish comic and pop culture blog won its first Friday Night Fights prize during Round 5! On our first entry into the battle!
Click here to witness the epic struggle on Bahalctus’ blog!!
The prize is a copy of Superman: Camelot Falls, so I’ll probably toss a review […]

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Las Vegas Comics Fest 2008 is being held at the Sahara West Library (9600 W. Sahara Ave.) this Saturday, Jan. 26, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. While Vegas hasn’t had a great record when it comes to sequential art gatherings (hence why we have a “comics fest” held inside a library while San Diego […]

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Well, I guess that’s all of you, huh? Funny, I’ve never met a comic fan who says, “Eh, Kirby, he can suck it.”
I meant to put this stuff online last week, but, well, to be honest, the week flew away and Christmas snuck up on me. I was hoping to help out some comic fans […]

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