Fantastic Forum

Kurt Busiek has written for DC, Marvel, Image, Darkhorse and is the winner of Harvey and Eisner Awards for Best Writer.

Tony Alleyne has renovated his one-bedroom flat in Hinckley, Leicestershire to resemble a Federation Starship.

For decades, comic books have been part of the American counter-culture. Does the success of recent Hollywood movies such as The Avengers, Spider Man and The Dark Knight mean that comics have finally gone mainstream?

The Southern Maryland Comic Con was this Saturday in Waldorf, Maryland. This one-day con packed quite a punch! There were some great artists in attendance including Steve Conley, Greg LaRocque, Matt Slay, J.K. Woodward, Louis Small Jr., Carolyn Belefski, Dan Nokes and Chris Flick. The Guest of Honor was writer Tim Seely who you may […]

On Friday, co-host Billie Rae Bates and I visited Geppi’s Entertainment Museum where we met Steve Geppi. Steve is one of the most influential men in the comics industry through his position as president of Diamond Comics Distributors. Diamond has cornered the distribution market and if you are a publisher who wants their books to […]

Free Comic Book Day is the annual industry event during which comics publishers make special titles available to the public free of charge.

My lovely wife and I enjoyed a matinee performance of THE HISTORY OF INVULNERABILITY at Theater J in the Washington, DC Jewish Community Center. Written by David Bar Katz and directed by Shirley Serotsky, who is also Theater J’s Director of Literary and Public Programming, the play tells the story of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel. […]

“Sexy robots. Foolish humans. What could go wrong?”

Science creates the perfect artificial sexual partner in R.U.X. (Rockwell’s Universal Sexbots) by Maurice Martin at The Capital Fringe Festival, July 13 through July 29. Martin’s science fiction comedy was voted Audience Favorite for the 2011 Hope Operas last fall. The play’s title is a homage to R.U.R. by Czech writer Karel Čapek. Čapek’s 1921 […]

I spent the weekend in beautiful Charlotte, NC at the Heroes Convention. While this was my first time attending this wonderful show it certainly won’t be my last! In addition to speaking with the likes of Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman, Paul Levitz, Louise Simonson and Ivan Reis I enjoyed the pleasure of getting convention founder, […]