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Rihanna Splurges At New York's Forbidden Planet
Page Six reports a New York Shopping spree for Rihanna on Wednesday, that included visiting Forbidden Planet in New York City The New York Post's celebrity gossip website reports that Rihanna's security guards were said to have walked out with five bags of vintage toys from the shop, under her umbrella No comic books though,[...]
Marvel Teams with NY Giants to Prove Superheroes Can Be Losers Too
But a new Marvel comics intends to show that not all superheroes are winners, and to illustrate it perfectly, Marvel is teaming up with NFL team The New York Giants. The New York Giants and Marvel are teaming up to show that superheroes don't always win. A new comic called G-Men will team Giants players with Marvel[...]
Viktor Koen, New Illustration & Cartooning Department Head at NY SVA
President David Rhodes of the New York School of Visual Arts has announced Viktor Koen as the new department chair of their BFA Illustration and BFA Cartooning programmes, and will succeed Thomas Woodruff, who is retiring after 39 years at SVA. Viktor Koen courtesy of New York School of Visual Arts PR Viktor Koen himself graduated from[...]
Liefeld Pulls Out Of Big Apple Comic Con, Starlin & Steranko Step In
This Saturday sees the return of the Big Apple Comic Con in New York, the first of the long-running comic conventions to return to a physical show after lockdown With a scaled-down "Prelude" show, the Big Apple Comic Con had rearranged its planned date from next weekend to this, to accommodate the schedule of Rob[...]
Liefeld Pulls Out Of Big Apple Comic Con, Starlin & Steranko Step In
The weekend represents the first of the long-standing physical comic conventions to return, even in a reduced format, The Big Apple Comic Con in the New Yorker Hotel on Saturday. Rob Liefeld's Anniversary Tour But it seems that their star guest, Rob Liefeld, has announced that he will no longer be attending Liefeld posted to Facebook stating; Once[...]
Big Apple Comic Con Spreads Joy (Hopefully That's All) This Saturday
Taking place at the iconic New Yorker Hotel, its special guests are Rob Liefeld, Marat Mychaels, Jeff Shultz, John O'Hurley, Diane Salinger, Steve Cardenas, and Brett Azar Calling it a Prequel Expo to the bigger show in September, here is a list of the events for the day. Time Event Name Details Moderator 9:00 am VIP Early Admission Special Early Admission for[...]
New York Comic Con 2020 Cancelled - I Know You Thought It Already Was
The Metaverse Membership is an annual membership program that gives fans from around the world access to New York Comic Con, MCM Comic Con, C2E2, and Emerald City Comic Con, digitally and in person Beginning late June, fans can sign up for a Metaverse Membership that grants first access to show badges, photo ops &[...]
Brooklyn To Host Pride Comic Book Street Fair On June 13th
Anyone Comics in Brooklyn, New York, is to host a queer comic book street fair, featuring local creators selling their comic books to celebrate Brooklyn Pride weekend Featured guests will include Sam Johns, Isaac Goodhart and Greg Anderson Elysée. Brooklyn To Host Pride Comic Book Street Fair On June 13th Join Anyone Comics, located in Crown[...]
St Mark's Comics of New York Returns, With a Brooklyn Store
In February 2019, St Mark's Comics of New York closed its last store after 36 years of business With locations over the years in Manhattan and Brooklyn, it was a noted "indie" comic store, rather than the supermarket or classical bookstore look It employed women staff long before that was the norm and was such[...]
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Here's a look at who's who in Dexter's (now Upstate New York) world: Jones' Angela Bishop is the first Native American Chief of Police in her town in upstate New York, while Sequoyah's Audrey is Bishop's brash and opinionated teenage daughter Miller's Logan is a sergeant for the Iron Lake Police Department and the assistant wrestling[...]
The Monkey King: A Chinatown Odyssey Kickstarter Launches This Week
The Monkey King: A Chinatown Odyssey is a new graphic novel launching its Kickstarter to support AAPI Heritage Month and #STOPASIANHATE this May.  Taiwanese American creator Jerry Ma (EPIC PROPORTIONS, VIBE Hong Kong) is bringing one of Chinese literature's most enduring characters, the Monkey King, to modern-day New York in THE MONKEY KING: A CHINATOWN ODYSSEY, which will[...]
Controversial Tony DeAngelo Placed on Waivers by New York Rangers
It would appear the New York Rangers have reached their limit with Tony DeAngelo  The team placed the fire-brand defenseman on waivers Sunday afternoon according to ESPN, thus ending his tenure with the Blueshirts that began in 2017  While often being a scoring highlight on the Rangers' blueline during that time, DeAngelo has been equally known for[...]
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Morgan's new upstate New York life On Friday, Deadline Hollywood reported that David Magidoff (The Morning Show) has joined the cast in the role of Teddy- the "new guy" who only been a cop in Iron Lake for 2-1/2 weeks Good-natured, quirky, hardworking, eager to please; and a little scared of his boss, Police Chief[...]
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Marcos Siega (Batwoman, The Flight Attendant, Veronica Mars) is set to executive produce as well as direct six episodes of the season. Dexter Revival Casts Michael Cyril Creighton in Recurring Role (Image: Netflix) With Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption, Carnivàle), Julia Jones (The Mandalorian), Alano Miller (Sylvie's Love), Johnny Sequoyah (Believe), and Jack Alcott (The Good Lord Bird)[...]
Fantastic Four #25 Changes New York In The Marvel Universe
Basically, Marvel has turned New York into a combination of both the great Boys Own adventure stories of colonisation and exploration – and the ultimate Ellis Island/Hellmouth, where anything can, and will, come to our world – and right into the centre of Manhattan Island It smacks of Stan and Jack's original version of the[...]
New York NY/USA-January 5, 2020 The Regal Cinemas in Times Square in New York. Editorial credit: rblfmr / Shutterstock.com
In the latest setback on the film industry's recovery during the pandemic in the US and UK, Cineworld Group's CEO Mooky Greidinger puts the blame on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on his inflexibility The decision to temporarily shutter its cinemas again comes on the heels of MGM and Eon's to delay the 25th Bond[...]
How Was Batman Saved From Cancellation? Arlen Schumer Tells All
Arlen Schumer, author of the Silver Age of Comic Book Art, is giving two more of his live 'visualecture' webinars next week for the New York Adventure Club, on the life and works of Carmine Infantino and Joe Kubert Priced at $10, he's running them during the early afternoon on the East Coast, rather than[...]
Valiant Offices Closed Permanently
They have also been slower than most to emerge from lockdown as well, with no new comic books solicited in October, only collections and a couple of rescheduled titles. It has now emerged that they have chosen to permanently close and vacate their New York offices Their lease was surrendered on June 25th While a number[...]
A look at the final scene from HBO's The Sopranos (Image: WarnerMedia).
Chase follows that exchange by explaining that he chose to not go in that direction, and instead referred to Tony's "death scene" as one where he was driving across the bridge to make nice with the New York bosses Chase felt that having the screen go blank while Tony's driving made it look too much[...]
A look at the report from the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee Task Force.
Less than a day after word broke that film and television productions were given the green light to resume productions after the UK government and health agencies gave the approval to new coronavirus safety rules and guidelines, New York Gov Andrew Cuomo and California Gov Gavin Newsom are hearing from Hollywood The Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety[...]
Marvel Comics' Christian Cooper In Central Park Racial Confrontation
Christian Cooper is a writer, and editor based in New York City He has worked for Marvel Comics as a writer and an editor, writing Marvel comics Presents Stories, the Darkhold series for over a year, a run on Excalibur and edited a number of X-Men collections In Star Trek fandom he is also notable[...]
This Quarantine LifeA COVID-19 Era Comics Anthology
The anthology is presented by The Art Students League of New York, the oldest not-for-profit art school in Manhattan, New York The League includes in their alumni, including Will Eisner, Gene Colan, Ramona Fradon, Dan DeCarlo and Walt Kelly This anthology is a platform for artists to share their experiences during this unprecedented time through[...]
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Jeff Ayers of the Forbidden Planet store in Manhattan, New York, is running a fundraiser on GoFundMe in order to stop from going under A longstanding spinoff of the UK comic book chain, Forbidden Planet NYC is one of the oldest and biggest comic book stores in New York City The store has currently raised[...]
First "Wonder Woman 1984" Trailer Shows Off a Technicolor 80's Dreamland
The New York-based Bottleneck Gallery plans to release two Wonder Woman prints The first captures Gadot in her classic red, white and blue costume from the 2017 film The second Diana of Themyscira in her shimmering Golden Eagle armor she dons in the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984. Warner Bros Bembi has two versions of each print she[...]
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In New York, the Javits Convention Center, home to Reed POP's New York Comic Con, is now being converted to a 2,000-bed hospital complex to treat coronavirus patients Governor Cuomo toured the 1.8 million square foot Manhattan complex yesterday as the Federal Emergency Management Agency was at work to turn it into four, 250-bed temporary[...]
it's always sunny in philadelphia
Except not everyone's listening. So New York State Governer Andrew Cuomo asked DeVito to take a break from Philly to do a little good for NYS – and for anyone, anywhere who needs a reminder of what they should be doing – in the most beautifully blunt, Frank-like way possible. FX Networks Check out the video for yourselves[...]
New York’s MoCCA Cancelled/Postponed, Over Coronavirus Pandemic Fears
New York is now in a state of emergency and the number of cases continues to climb. It is with the safety and well-being of our community that we have made the difficult decision to reschedule the MoCCA Arts Festival We are currently working with Metropolitan West to find a suitable replacement date. There are financial ramifications[...]