For years Marvel/DC/etc have let scanning run a bit rampant. On occasion they’ll go after Z-Cult FM to try to get some torrent trackers shut down, but they’ve sort of sat on things lately.
Well, Marvel has started to make some waves. Free Comic Books is one of many sites that links to scanned comics. They […]

Over at Spunky the Wonder Blog, the question was raised over why Image comics is still around:
Would Age of Bronze do better if it were published by, say, Fatagraphics? Dunno. But the book design would probably look a little better, since Image seems incapable of publishing anything outside of the traditional comics and trade paperback […]

Gordon Lee is facing an interesting and idiotic lawsuit:
The section from Nick Bertozzi’s graphic novel The Salon begins like this: the artist Georges Braque is led into Pablo Picasso’s studio by a nude model. Picasso, the model explains, is enraptured by his art – “he’s in there masturbating” – and is angry at Braque for […]

Tintin in the Congo was one of Herge’s early Tintin comics and even back then started a storm of controversy because people thought it was racist. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in America caused similar controversy because Herge had a tendency to use stereotypes for comedic effect. Herge always […]