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I Hate Fairyland tells the tale of a young girl named Gertie who is magically whisked away for a fantastic journey in a beautiful fairy tale land, populated with cute and colorful creatures. And Gertie’s going to kill every last one of those mother-fluffers!

With Should I Be Reading… ?, ComicsAlliance hopes to offer you a guide to some of the best original ongoing comics being published today. Black Magick is a beautiful and haunting Image series by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott, about the occult, witch hunters, detectives, and the darkness biding its time just below the surface of the mundane world. ...

As soon as I finished reading Poorcraft, Spike Trotman and Diana Nock's comic book guide to living well on a tight budget, I knew I would be getting a copy for my sister. And her boyfriend, who's planning a move to a more expensive city...

If you are in the New York City area and like comics that push the boundaries of the comic book medium, I cannot urge you strongly enough to check out the Cartoon Polymaths exhibit at The New School. But for everyone else, we've got an overview, photos, and videos that capture a small part of the experience...

It seems hard to overestimate the affection Norwegian cartoonist Jason (one name only) creates in comics fans of many stripes. When I worked in a comic book store full of Fantagraphobics, the one book from the House of Groth I can remember being recommended by a spandex-loving co-worker was Jason's Hey, Wait...

Today, Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods -- the feature-length documentary by Respect! Films, directed by Patrick Meaney -- was supposed to drop but seems to not be available until December 15, at least. It's a very well-crafted piece of work, a clear labor of love and result of the fairly extensive access Morrison and his friends and family gave the filmmakers...

If the back cover copy hadn't told me, I probably never would have realized that Renee French's new Picturebox graphic novel, "H Day," was about her struggle with migraine headaches, although the adorable shelving classification "migraine / graphic novel" might have tipped me off...

The girls are back in town with yesterday's relaunch of "Birds of Prey" #1 by Gail Simone, and as usual they're making headlines. Sure, you can get the big stories anywhere, but God and gossip are in the details, and only we here at Bird on the Street have all of those...

The following are 20 observations, impressions, and thoughts inspired by the motion picture IRON MAN 2, labeled thematically and arranged to form like Voltron into a whole piece, what might be called a "review". This review is dedicated to Steve Martin and Fred Schepsi.

ComicsAlliance writers Laura Hudson, Chris Sims, Caleb Goellner, Chris Murphy, and David Uzumeri sit down for a roundtable discussion about the newly released "S.H.I.E.L.D." #1. WARNING: MASSIVE SPOILERS FOLLOW. Laura: David, you want to catch us up...