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Beleaguered Republican Presidential Primary candidate Herman Cain removed himself from the heavily contested race on Saturday amid decreasing poll numbers and increasing allegations of scandal. As he is wont to do, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO included in his remarks a reference to 2000's Pokémon: The Movie. The H...

Known to ComicsAlliance readers for publishing Susie Cagle's What Every Woman Should Know -- about the faith-based "crisis pregnancy centers" that have been cropping up in California -- and several pieces in support of assaulted cartoonist Ali Ferzat, Cartoon Movement has quite naturally been all over the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City and elsewhere...

Having observed the tremendous popularity of DC Comics New 52 initiative, whereby the publisher relaunched its entire line of superher titles with designed costumes, retooled creative teams and updated origins, cartoonist Ward Sutton wondered if the same kind of aesthetic overhaul could be helpful to politicians...

We're still over one year away from the United States' next presidential election, which is hard to believe based on what we see and hear in the media. The Republican party has yet to select a candidate to oppose President Barack Obama in 2012, but the GOP's primary campaign very quickly made itself unavoidable in virtually every channel through which we ingest information, including entertainment

Music: Kirby Krackle's new album, "Super Powered Love," has arrived on iTunes and other digital outlets, just in case you didn't catch them at Comic-Con. Movies: According to Deadline, Dodgeball director Rawson Thurber is rewriting Universal Pictures' live action adaptation of The Umbrella Academy...

Former Florida Congressman Alan Grayson has used the ascension of Green Lantern in the American consciousness to facilitate an attack on his political opponents. In a blog published to The Huffington Post and distributed as a letter to supporters, Grayson invoked a famous scene from the 1970s Green Lantern series in which Hal Jordan was admonished by an elderly African-American man for his failure

On sale now from Image Comics is Graveyard of Empires #1, the 32-page first chapter of a new limited series set against the war in Afghanistan. Created by Mark Sable (Unthinkable) and Paul Azaceta (Amazing Spider-Man, B.P.R.D.: 1946), the story is a prodigiously researched and unflinchingly violent depiction of what life is really like for American troops in this 10th year of war in Afghanistan, b

Superhero fans, especially those old enough to have opinions, are often divided by their views on the appropriateness of real-world politics in their escapist literature. While many of us regard Dennis O'Neil and Neil Adams' socially relevant run on "Green Lantern/Green Arrow" to be a superlative example of costumed heroes confronting the hard-hitting issues of the day, just as many rea

It's been a couple of weeks since we last wrote about Chip Zdarsky AKA Steve Murray, the Canadian cartoonist running a genuinely hopeless race for Mayor of Toronto. The "Prison Funnies" and "Bad Advice" creator launched his "M4M" campaign after an unhappy encounter with a plastic bag surcharge at a local café, an event that inspired some radical positions on not just

There are certain people out there who wake up every morning still missing the "The West Wing," who think that Hal Jordan's famous "blue, orange and purples skins" scene would have been better with a fat cat wearing a sash labeled "military industrial complex" in the background, and who want to start their day with some insufferable liberal smugness...