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News & Things

April 24, 2014

Manga fans in India Japanese manga cafes and meet-ups are fostering fans in India and inspiring their local creators to make manga. Easter eggs aren’t just for Easter For Agents of SHIELD fans, Russ Burlingame breaks down the Marvel Universe Easter eggs in this season. Whovians get hungry ...

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2014 Hugo Award Finalists Announced

April 23, 2014

On Saturday, April 19, during a livestream event hosted by Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention (“Worldcon”) announced the finalists for this year’s Hugo Awards. The number of nomination ballots received this year hit a new response record. Nominations were held earlier this ...

Comics, Interviews

Smut Peddler Interview with Editor C. Spike Trotman

April 21, 2014

Smut Peddler 2014 met its $20,000 goal in roughly six hours. By the time I chatted with Spike on the Tuesday night after its opening week, the project had just hit $76,000 and was the most popular Kickstarter project of over 3,000 projects the weekend before. Smut Peddler’s editor, C. Spike ...

Interviews

Interview with Lightspeed Publisher John Joseph Adams

April 18, 2014

Earlier this year, the digital science fiction and fantasy magazine, Lightspeed, ran a hugely successful campaign called “Women Destroy Science Fiction.” The original goal was set at $5,000 but the campaign raised over $50,000. Although the issue is being completely edited by women, the ...

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News & Things: Award Season’s Around the Corner

April 16, 2014

Love your comic shop? Be in a music video! The folks over at Geek and Sundry are putting together a music video for Free Comic Book Day. Record and submit your video by April 22 for a chance to be a part of it. 2014 Eisner nominees are out Did your favorites make the list? Canada’s Doug ...

Comics

Amazon to Acquire comiXology

April 10, 2014

If you’re visiting the comiXology website today, you’ll see a “Message from the CEO” rotating on in the banner. After seven years of business, the message from David Steinberger announces that comiXology will become part of the Amazon family. The message also states that they will retain its ...

Comics

Super MOOC March Check-In

April 9, 2014

It’s been a few weeks since the start of the Social Issues through Comic Books course. In its first module, Addiction, students were given tools to understand and recognize addiction so they could better identify addiction in the weekly readings. Weekly readings have included Buzzkill, Green ...

Reviews, Webcomics

Webcomics Capsules: Superheroes and Feminists

April 9, 2014

Webcomics Capsules is all about short webcomics reviews—more like recommendations, actually. See what our writers are enjoying around the web, choose your favorites and get to reading! This edition has two of my favorite things: superheroes and feminism. Laugh with (at) Jean Grey and Scott ...

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News & Things: Serious business

April 9, 2014

Archie dies in July Seems the days are numbered for beloved character Archie Andrews. Archie Comics announced that his death with conclude the Life with Archie series. How the war on terror has changed comics Tom Risen claims that since 2001, superheroes in comics have taken a more global view ...

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Kickstarter of the Week: Crossed Genres Magazine

April 4, 2014

Crossed Genres Magazine is a monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine committed to telling stories of unrepresented, marginalized or ignored characters in science fiction and fantasy, such as characters of color, QUILTBAG, disabled, etc. The magazine relaunched in 2013 after a successful ...

Brenda Noiseux

News & Things

2014 Hugo Award Finalists Announced

Smut Peddler Interview with Editor C. Spike Trotman

Interview with Lightspeed Publisher John Joseph Adams

News & Things: Award Season’s Around the Corner

Amazon to Acquire comiXology

Super MOOC March Check-In

Webcomics Capsules: Superheroes and Feminists

News & Things: Serious business

Kickstarter of the Week: Crossed Genres Magazine

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