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Just last week, Stewart crashed Jimmy Kimmel's final monologue from Jimmy Kimmel Live's "Brooklyn Week" with a break-dancing crew to recruit Kimmel and Matt Damon for the cause: https://youtu.be/42KrWGCnV4IVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Jon Stewart Surprises Audience with Jimmy Kimmel & Matt Damon Video (https://youtu.be/42KrWGCnV4I) Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs[...]

The new 1 ton bronze statue of Captain America is making its debut at the San Diego Comic Con this weekend before its shipped to Brooklyn, NY where it will reside in Prospect Park starting August 10th The video below shows the statue's unveiling by Marvel at the convention as well as shows that there[...]

Gowanus, Brooklyn, is the home to a thriving art community, and there's a particular block of warehouse space where comic artists, in particular, have been making their living for some time Included in that is my haunt, Hang Dai Studios, featuring Dean Haspiel, Gregory Benton, Christa Cassano, Joe Infurnari, Swifty Lang, Jonathan Allen, and more,[...]

Brooklyn is host to a number of comic creators working out of the same studio, Hang Dai, and associated offspring. It is also where a brand new superhero universe is being born, the New Brooklyn Universe coming in March from LINE Webtoons, who also recently announced their Star Wars comics adaptation. And it's headed up by Hang[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNFi32vwOEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Flame Con 2- August 20-21 2016- Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNFi32vwOE) The second annual Flame Con, the Brooklyn-based LGBTQ comic convention is expanding from one day to two next year, taking August 20th and 21st at a larger venue at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott. The first show this June was the largest queerfocused pop[...]

Written by Amanda Gurall I am going to start this by saying that while my 7 year old daughter loves the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic I do not consider myself a fan although I am familiar with pony and Brony culture through friends and other events.  We attended the 2015 Ponycon in Brooklyn, NY last week and it was nice[...]

Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Sing-Along and Joss Whedon-Themed Party – TWO SHOWS! 9:45 pm and 11.45pm Union Hall – Brooklyn 702 Union Street Brooklyn, NY, 11215 Featuring: – Dr Horrible and Whedon-themed contests and trivia with cool (and evil) prizes like memorabilia from across the Whedonverse, Evil League of Evil membership cards, free drinks and gift cards for[...]

Tony from The Action Room went shopping in Brooklyn And shared his spoils… Such as the Hawkeye Mini-Hauler Because, you know, Hawkeye often has a lot of stuff to haul. And a Silver Surfer mini-hauler, because sometimes the power cosmic of an intergalactic surfboard just doesn't deliver enough torque. You can find these and more here. Oh and the[...]

However, if there's anything that last Tuesday's gallery opening of Picture in Picture: A Comics Show at Launchpad in Brooklyn suggests it's that the art world and popular culture are finally both able and beginning to embrace the sophisticated, sequential illustrative style of comics. As Picture in Picture's curator Jess Worby understands very well, comics have[...]

In the intervening period, they experimented with digital publication of their works, the use of social media to spread the word and engage fan support, and, finally, with self-printing a few mini comics of their own. But the most significant development I witnessed seemed to be the founding of Hang Dai Studios in its second incarnation[...]

Portland? No. Seattle? No. Manhattan? No. San Diego? No. The greatest concentration of people reading comics on the Nook is in Brookyln. Analysis

As The Monster Shop is the latest of the Dave Egger inspired studios  on hig streets in London, what better reason to take at look at the five year old Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. This amazing looking store, feeling that it fell straight out of Acme Novelty Library, is a front for the nonprofit organization 826NYC,[...]