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A Preemptive Wake for Alt Weekly Comics, While Matt Groening Threatens to Quit

Todd — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:33:06 +0000

On November 7, the Chicago Humanities Festival held a panel on the decline and death of alternative comic strips. That is to say, the weekly comic strips that appear in alternative weekly papers...

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Marvel Now On iPhone / Mobiles in the U.S.

Todd — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:53:34 +0000

You may be startled to learn that Marvel Comics are now available for download in the United States. Of course, if you’ve been following my coverage of this, you’d have read about...

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Is Wizard Rebranding?

Todd — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:42:26 +0000

Is Wizard rebranding? Change has been a constant in what’s left of the Wizard empire, and recent events are starting to look like there might be a rebranding strategy in place. A slightly...

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The Things You Find on the Floors of Bars

Todd — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:48:06 +0000

Perhaps you’ve seen The Matrix? It was a fairly popular movie. Popular enough to have spawn all sorts of essays on philosophy and the meaning of “take the red pill.” I found an...

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The New Economics of Comic Convention Shopping

Todd — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:13:02 +0000

I’m just taking it for granted that if you’re reading this, you’ve also read some of the dealer reports from the 2009 comic convention season. By the sounds of it, high end back...

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Wizard World Chicago (Comic-Con) 2009 Saturday/Sunday Notes and Wrap-Up

Todd — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:35:41 +0000

Wizard World Chicago (AKA The Chicago Comic-Con) continued to be a strange creature on Saturday and Sunday. You might go so far as to say it was a different show each day. I might not argue too...

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Friday at Chicago Comic-Con (Wizard World) 2009

Todd — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:11:04 +0000

Wizard World Chicago (a.k.a. The Chicago Comic-Con, though the digital sign outside the convention center still said Wizard) is a strange, strange bag. I’m not completely sure what to make...

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What’s Left of the NBA Free Agent Crop

Todd — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:49:11 +0000

Summer league is over, the 2009-2010 NBA schedule is published, but there’s still a bit of chaos with free agents lingering around. Who’s left that’s any good? Mostly, it seems...

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Where Could Allen Iverson Start?

Todd — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:22:05 +0000

While going over what’s left of the 2009 free agent crop, the topic of Allen Iverson came up.Nobody seems quite sure whether Iverson’s lead balloon performance in Detroit was age catching up...

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Two Signs That Shouldn’t Be Next To Each Other: The Sequel

Todd — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:14:07 +0000

At the beginning of May, I was at the Clark & Division train station and I saw a couple subway signs that just really shouldn’t have been next to each other. I don’t know if the...

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