Did you pick up on the Octagon Global Recruiting ad in the finale of Lost? Yes its a tie in the hints are the octagon motif used in the lost episode and also the fact that the volunteer positions are in San Diego: just when the world's largest comic con is on - coincidence - no I dont think so! Lost has been going for so lon

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Who says the Victorians were humourless?

In today's installment of The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely, his lordship presents his favourite Victorian comic-strip, The Humourous Japery of Reginald Whiskers, which chronicles the adventures of a rather portly, sarcastic cat. Sound familiar?...

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Sometimes you gotta laugh, and the following cartoonists want to help you do just that. These artists have generously made their cartoons available free for use in blogs. The cartoons they offer are are diverse; some are black and white, others are in color. Some require embedding code in your blog, but in return they deliver a new cartoon ev

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If your friends and family are anything like mine they start emailing you holiday comics or holiday funnies (as they're sometimes called) around this time of year...every year. I get them every year and it's usually the same holiday cartoons as the ones I got the year before.

This year I decided to go out and find all the holiday cartoo

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A provocative speech by the principal character in the ‘V for Vendetta’ movie (directed by the Wachowski brothers) was used by Ron Paul’s supporters to raise record breaking funds for his election campaign.

Here are some scans of the actual V for Vendetta comic strip featuring the famous TV studio speech. The speech is completely differe

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Reading comics is a good way to learn language. Since every word is dialog, you can use what you read in daily conversation without having to worry about whether or not you are mistakenly using formal literary language or not. Pictures are great for context clues and cool onomatopoeia words are everywhere. In this article, I take a look at

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What a wonderful world it would be if every comic book cover was an artistic masterpiece. Alas, this is not so. For every stunning Bill Sienkiewicz or Brian Bolland cover, there's a dozen or more mediocre (at best) covers - and yeah, we're lookin' at you DC Countdown! Who is your favorite cover artist, and why? What's the absolutely w

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Geeky and Meeky is a slightly different kind of web comic. Written by an Indian where English is his second language, most of the strips are humorous enough to make the most jaded humor-seeking fan smile.

If you like this one, you might want to t

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In an interview with MTV, Rachel McAdams indicated that she'd like to play Black Orchid in an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean comic from the '80s. McAdams has auditioned for other superhero movies and not gotten the call, so this new approach - finding an exciting and interesting character and promoting herself for

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Remember when comic books were just plain fun? Pre-Watchmen and Batman: Dark Knight? So do I, and thankfully some of those kinds of comics are still around. Justice Society of America, Booster Gold and Ultimate Spider-Man all make legions of fans remember what made comics great to begin with. PastePotPete presents,in no particular order, t

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Watchmen is considered by many critics to be the best comic story of all time. ALL TIME! How could other creators and companies possibly hope to top that? Well, they couldn’t. But soon after, DC created the Vertigo line. Amazing writers (mainly British) like Grant Morrison (Doom Patrol and Animal Man), Jamie Delano (Hellblazer), Neil Gaiman (

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Alex Cox wrote a sequel to Repo Man back in the mid-nineties, but thanks to a 21-year-old studio exec who'd never seen the cult classic, it never got off the ground. He sat on it, figuring it was dead, for years. Eventually, he decided to try soliciting comics artists by putting it up on his website. Chris Bone res

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Last summer's blockbuster Transformers movie reinvigorated the franchise and this spring's IDW series picks up where it left off. Brought to you by Chris Ryall, The Reign of Starscream is the official Transformers Movie Sequel in sequential art form. Of course, a Transformers II is already in production, so we'll just have

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f you live in the following cities... In Vancouver, BC you can find copies at RX Comics, Lucky's Comics, Sophia Books and ComicLand, which also has branches in Coquitlam and Burnaby. In Portland, OR you can get a copy at Floating World Comics, in Chicago, IL at Quimby's Books, and shortly in Baltimore, MA at Atomic Comics. St

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That's right!  Marvel Comics' editor-in-chief, Jow Quesada, is returning to the hit Comedy Central talk show, The Colbert Report this Thursday.  He shocked host, Stephen Colbert, the first time he was there with intersting Cap gossip.  What truthiness will the One Last Day artist bring to the table this time? C

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David Steward was fired for doing something that thousands of people have done before him- posting a Dilbert comic on a bulletin board at his company. He claims that he was trying to raise morale before a pending casino closure. Seems harmless enough but there's more to the story. Now, Dilbert creator Scott Adams is now trying

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If you are at least 30 years old (probably a lot younger, come to think of it), you remember the G.I. Joe cartoon and toy line. With the new live-action movie set for a 2009 release, you are going to be seeing a lot of articles on this and that about the whole G.I. Joe phenomena of the 1980s and so forth, but did you know that

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The week’s funny pages — they say art imitates real life, and I say that’s a major cliché — so let’s look at the funny pages about the politicians. I’ve already highlighted the strong political statements on bumper stickers — now let’s see what the cartoonists are saying!

I mean, with all that’s going on in real world polit

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