Author: John

Going to Glass City

Toledo, Ohio’s annual Glass City Con has invited me to return this year as a guest presenter. This year I’ll be hosting four audio-visual lecture panels: Defining the
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Just Because

Regrettably, I don’t live in the UK, so I won’t be able to see this theatrical re-release, although I did see the film theatrically in 1986. I’m pretty
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RIP Darwyn Cooke

53-year-old Eisner award winning comic artist Darwyn Cooke passed away this morning due to cancer. Donations in memoriam may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society and Hero
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The Deadpool Effect on Manga

As soon as the Deadpool movie broke box office records, pundits began predicting Hollywood’s kneejerk reaction. Producer Roy Lee announcing that the prospective American Death Note movies will
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Tanuki are Real!?

As written by New York Magazine, “But, as the internet is finding out today, tanuki are real, and they’re spectacularly cute.” Wait a minute! Was there ever, even
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