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In addition to hearing my dad sing his rendition of "Five Fat Turkeys Are We" to me over the phone (which my siblings and I burned into his brain over the course of many grade school assemblies), one of my favorite Thanksgiving traditionsis hitting my search engine of choice to skim comic book covers celebrating the baked bird/tofurky-filled American holiday. Unlike the arguably more pop

If you're still on the fence about paying for digital comics instead of their print counterparts, your local library could soon offer a very free workaround for reading single issue comics and graphic novels. Come July (tentatively, anyway), iVerse Media will launch Comics Plus: Library Edition, a new digital comics platform spanning HTML5 web browsers/mobile devices/tablets that participating li

Making comics under any circumstances requires a certain amount of focus, but autobiographical travelogues can be an especially challenging undertaking. Creators have the burden of lugging around equipment and must balance living in the moment with detailing their experiences to ensure accuracy and sincerity in their work...

In this week's comics-related Public Service Announcement by Kevin Church and artist Sandra Lanz, the cast of the webcomic The Rack discusses what you can do with your old (and unwanted) comics to help others. To read the continuing adventures of the Panels crew, check out The Rack, written by Kevin Church and drawn by Benjamin Birdie at therackcomic...

A career is a tough thing to plan. A career in a world full of supervillains is even tougher. There are so many opportunities that can turn out to be traps, and seeming pitfalls that turn out to be saving moves. It's difficult to maneuver one's superheroic way to stable and comfortable employment...

'Form follows function' is a principle of modern design. Things should look like what they do. Buildings made for the towering ambition of business people should jut upwards. Court houses should be solid, evenly structured, while being subtly imposing...

In the nick of time, the Man of Steel has saved a family's home ... for real. A couple facing foreclosure found the collateral they desperately needed with the discovery of an Action Comics #1 in the basement, aka, the Holy Grail of comic books...

As much as I expected Easter-inspired marshmallow Peeps commentary (or reviews of the new "Doctor Who") to dominate my Twitter feed this past weekend, the release of Apple's new "magical and revolutionary" iPad definitely seemed to fill the most overall entries...

The complete 12 Days of Christmas have arrived at ComicsAlliance, where we've commissioned illustrations by the artists of Periscope Studio that reimagine the 12 days of the classic Christmas carol -- with a comics twist. Join us now as we count down through all twelve wonderfully nerdy images like 10 Lord Vaders a Leaping, 7 Bella Swans a Swimming, and 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtledoves, from com

Wow. It's almost like Megan Fox is actively trying to prove me right. Check out this photo from a recent "Rolling Stone" shoot where the scantily-clad, high-heeled "Transformers" star continues her pandering to the comics demo by staring at the back cover of an old "Doctor Strange" comic and handling it like a strange artifact...