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New Year: Happy 2013, everybody... except mutants. According to the classic "Days of Future Past" storyline by Chris Claremont and John Byrne (specifically Uncanny X-Men #141, originally released on January 10, 1981), you guys aren't going to have the best year...

A variety of comics projects have taken to Kickstarter and IndieGoGo in order to get readers to pony-up the cash needed to create print collections, and while it's easy to consider this crowd-sourced avenue a mainstay of independent books today, it's worth remembering that Kickstarter is only three-years-old as a platform...

The first time I saw a poster for Rise of the Guardians, I rolled my eyes so hard that I actually hurt myself. You probably saw the same one I did if you went to the theater any time last summer. The close-up of the Naughty and Nice tattoos just conjured up images of a Poochie-esque version of Santa Claus, cranked up to x-treme by a team of ad executives and accompanied by "hilarious" an

Fashion: Nike teams up with Calvin Johnson for a very stylish collection honoring the Transformers villain Megatron. Fashion: One Piece's Straw Hats rock Armani in a new Japanese A|X ad campaign. Interviews: Chris Ware's MSNBC interview on The Cycle makes a very solid case for checking out Building Stories (which I still can't find a place for on my bookshelf, but dig nonetheless)... Read Mor

All-round creative whirlwind (and Occupy arrestee) Molly Crabapple isn't content creating art during a week-long performance, auction work for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund or even creating festive illustrations for CA; now she's creating short movies based around heartbreak, accordions and puppetry...

Usually, these weekend art posts focus on art of the still variety, often with an animation inspiration. But Gabe Swarr's art form is animation; when he's not working as the supervising producer on Nickelodeon's Kung-Fu Panda: The Legend of Awesomeness, he's working on his own series of animated shorts: Life in the Analog Age...

Outside of "snow day" and "free cupcakes," I'm not sure there are many pairs of words in the English language as wonderful as "happy monster." It's probably thanks to a childhood spent on Sesame Street, but there's something about goofy, smiling monsters that just makes me grin...

Jake Wyatt's art is, from the very first glance, transporting. He can creating scenes so detailed and lush that you could imagine them playing out before your very eyes. That's why his skills lend themselves so well to his short film, METRO, which takes a young girl to the secret world between the metro station and the surface...

There's nothing quite like the cognitive dissonance dog owners every time they take their pooch out to, uh... eliminate. On one hand, you're proud of your pup -- especially if you house trained it yourself -- for doing its thing outside. On the o...

George Lucas and Ron Howard's 1988 fantasy film Willow might have had a happy ending, but the followup novel, Chronicles of the Shadow Moon, outlined by Lucas and adapted by Chris Claremont, wiped out all those warm fuzzy feelings in one giant cataclysm...