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Ron Wimberly is in pretty high demand these days. His 2012 graphic novel Prince Of Cats was met with near-universal critical praise, he was recently brought on as a contributing artist on Adult Swim series Black Dynamite, and his work has been featured in various art shows and galleries. Now the cartoonist has a new client: Nike. The sneaker and sports apparel giant hired Wimberly to produce a se

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

Animation: Malcolm Sutherland's animated Ninja Turtles tribute brings an awesome artistic sensibility to Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's beloved ninja brothers. Creators: Artist Grace Allison has officially joined Portland's Periscope Studio...

With this year's pleasant weather increasingly in the rearview, Nike has tapped comic talents Amanda Conner (Power Girl) and Jan Duursema (Star Wars) to illustrate the benefits of its Women's Training Holiday 2011 collection. The overall message of the line's associated "Make Yourself: a superpower" campaign is to empower women to work out in seemingly element-impervious Nike products ev

If you happened to catch this weekend's NBA All-Star Game, chances are you saw L.A. Lakers franchise player Kobe Bryant pull off some, dare we say, superhuman moves (like this dunk over some dude named LeBron). Apparently, the folks at Nike are taking that superheroic comparison quite literally, teaming up with director Robert Rodriguez of (Sin City) fame and a host of A-list talent on their al

Before we begin, let's make something very clear here -- unless you happen to be Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald or a seven-year-old heading off to their first day of third grade, you're gonna have a really tough time pulling these off in public...

Although I was more impressed by Kevin Tancharoen's recent "Mortal Kombat: Rebirth" short than the "Street Fighter: Legacy" movie we highlighted a couple of months ago, I have no trouble admitting that I'm a bigger fan of Ryu, Ken and their respective combatants than the "MK" gang, thanks in no small part to the cool "Street Fighter" comics from Udon Enterta

Casual comic book fans don't have enough evidence to decide whether or not Tony Stark is a gifted basketball player, but thanks to his highly sophisticated Iron Man armor, he's got to be capable of the occasional slam dunk. Now, assuming you've got some skills on the b-ball court, you can (almost) literally slip into Stark's shoes and perform some armored alley oops of your own...