MichaelJackson

A few weeks back, we took a look at Amanda Visell's Wood Idols, a series of hand-carved, hand-painted wooden statues of pop culture icons. This week, Vissell's back with more, and they somehow manage to be even more awesome that first round...

Today is Michael Jackson's birthday, and in addition to cranking up Off the Wall, we're celebrating around here by remembering that time that the King of Pop almost bought Marvel Comics so that he could play Spider-Man in a movie. Seriously: That was a thing that almost happened...

Marvel's Chairman Emeritus Stan Lee has been making the promotional rounds in support of the company's latest motion picture, The Avengers, based on the classic superheroes he created with Jack Kirby. By this point in his life, the 89-year-old publishing icon has seen a lot of Marvel movies come and go (and has appeared in at least 15 of them), and with that experience comes a lot of great stories

Each year, "MAD" magazine selects the 20 dumbest people and events of the previous 12 months for its "MAD 20" list. ComicsAlliance already featured a preview of the Sarah Palin entry last week, but now we're back to reveal the #1 dumbest thing of 2009: Michael Jackson...

-- Former Marvel editor Jim Salicrup recalls a meeting between Michael Jackson and Stan Lee and even shares the video. --Comic creator and industry guru Scott McCloud shares an impressive comic book drawing he made when he was 15 years old. -- MTV...

The news of Michael Jackson's death last week seemed to make all other news come to a screeching halt, even overshadowing the passage of a landmark climate change bill. But wait, there's more: It also only prevented the reunion of Megan Fox and salmon-shirted rose boy, and pushed webcomic creator Kate Beaton off the cover of The National Post...

-- Offworld.com has an insane download of "American Elf Bros," a hacked ROM of Super Mario Bros where you can play as "American Elf" creator James Kochalka. -- Danny Hellman's original Michael Jackson drawing for "Royal Flush #5" is on auction on eBay, with a starting bid of over four-hundred bones...

Like it or not, you have to admit that there were many bizarre circumstances involved in the life of the Michael Jackson. And so it's not surprising that his passing would also leave its share of bizarre events, rippling out into the world in a kind of shockwave of the strange...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/comics_animation/The_5_Greatest_Michael_Jackson_Moments_in_Comics'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; The King of Pop is dead. Michael Jackson passed away to the sadness and shock of millions of fans worldwide -- including me...

Darth Vader and his Stormtroopers perform the zombie dance from "Thriller." That is all.