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Diamond Comic Distributors, a Baltimore institution that grew from a basement comic book shop to the nation’s largest comics distributor, will be up for sale in March. Hunt Valley-based Diamond ...
How This Comic Maker Plans to Make Everyone an Artist The first annual “By the People Festival” kicks off in the Washington, D.C. area with interactive art, gospel, Jazz, opera and other ...
The newspaper comic strip section is a particularly and peculiarly American institution. I can’t deny that, being British, when I open the special Sunday edition comic pull-out—six pages ...
He said the event has the potential to fill 600,000 room-nights in local hotels — four times the annual output of Comic-Con — generate $661.6 million in economic impact and add nearly $9.5 ...
By 1915, two decades after the first appearance of The Yellow Kid in the New York World, the funnies business was a national institution. Comics appeared, both daily and on Sundays, in virtually ...
St. Mark’s Comics, an integral part of St. Mark’s Place for 36 years, announced its forthcoming closure Tuesday.
When comic artist and skater chick Jolene Nenibah Yazzie was younger, she used to compare herself to Wonder Woman. She has long, sleek black hair like the superheroine, and she looked up to her ...
Garfield Kwan, a fourth-year PhD student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, has a passion not only for science, but also comics. His love for the two ...
Chapel Hill Comics started life almost four decades ago as the Foundation Bookshop, tucked beside a Rosemary Street parking deck. When it changed owners, it became Second Foundation and spun off a ...