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A number of prominent authors and artists have signed a PEN America open letter protesting against book bans in Missouri schools this autumn Bleeding Cool has been covering the increase in such activity in the US, concerning schools, school libraries, public libraries and commercial bookstores which have been targeted over a number of titles, specifically[...]

The first season is said to include Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, Washington, and Kansas. The cast includes: Rachel Brosnahan, Travis Fimmel, Christina Ricci, Jacob Batalon, Ming-Na Wen, Taissa Farmiga, Asa Butterfield, John Marshall Jones, Ron Livingston, Victoria Justice, Karen Allen, Colin Ford, Alex Fitzalan, James Ransone, Emily Hampshire, Elizabeth Reaser, Rory Culkin, Warren[...]

All The Rage is also a comic book store in Festus, Missouri, which opened in 2013 But this, it seems, will be its last year The shop has now announced they will be closing on March 29th and are having a blow out sale On their Facebook page, they posted, All The Rage will be closing[...]

The first season was executive produced and directed by Bateman. Set in the dark and dangerous modern world of drug-money laundering, Ozark introduces us to financial planner Marty Byrde (Bateman), his wife Wendy (Linney) and their family's sudden relocation from their home in the Chicago suburbs to a summer resort community in The Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes: In the past week, the biggest thing happening in America has been the police siege of Ferguson, Missouri Social media has given a fuller account than mainstream media of the lies, contradictions and outright violations of the law and the US Constitution that the Ferguson police department has committed to intimate and suppress[...]

He writes, Damn, it's 1963 all over again in Missouri. The police are using tear gas and billy clubs to control a group of peaceful protesters All that's missing is German Shepherds and fire hoses, but hey, rubber bullets more than make up for that. Someone once asked me to "please stay here," and I seriously wondered if[...]

And Ferguson, Missouri has seen a similar scenario playing out over recent days. The shooting and killing of an unarmed black teenager walking away from a unnamed policeman has seen police tooling up like an occupying force to deal with protestors, Protestors being referred to as animals, SWAT teams being assembled to deal with disturbances that have then escalated into[...]

Written by Andres Salazar and penciler Jose Luis Pescador, Pariah, Missouri is a self-published western/horror ongoing title It's part Deadwood part Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Part wild-west historical drama, part supernatural mystery, Pariah is set in 1857 a few years before the Civil War.  Pariah is a team book, we follow Hiram Buchanan an undercover[...]

This is a real comic book creator heading for office. Webcartoonist Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf beat political science teacher Richard Buchli in a Democrat primary for the House of Representatives in Missouri. And he did it by handing out comic books Well, comic illustrations Well, manipulated photographs, quoting from Understanding Comics "Scott McCloud has said it's easier to[...]

St Louis Today reports that a mentally disabled man working for McDonalds and living in Granite City, Missouri, with his two dogs Kyrpto and Dyno, has had $5,000 worth of Superman collection stolen from him. Mike Meyer's collection contained Superman lunch boxes, radios, TVs, Monopoly, and comic books from the fifties to the present day. But[...]