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Chaykin & Tischman's faux historical graphic adventure.

Harvey Pekar hits the slicks!

Classic off-the-wall superhero comics!

Our buds at Amazon are creating a searchable database of thousands of nonfiction books: Executives at Amazon.com are negotiating with several of the largest book publishers about an ambitious and expensive plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of nonfiction, according …

Brad Stone thinks he knows why The League film sucks: One of the film’s problems, and the comic book’s strengths, is enormously relevant in an age of rampant online file-sharing and courtroom wars over extension of the copyright term. In the comic book, Moore shows the benefit of having a …

MTV does Spider-Man.

Cleveland’s iconoclastic writer, cartoonist, grump, and now film character, Harvey Pekar has a blog: Right now, I’m being kept busy, mostly by opportunities generated by the movie “American Splendor”. I get these assignments from the various people and companies that advertise “American Splendor” to produce all kinds of things that …

Norwegian cartoonist Jason adapts a period mystery story - in animal drag.

Harry popping up on the Internet, especially in countries without official translation, may even help popularize e-books: So far, authors and publishers have mainly stood on the sidelines of the Internet file-swapping frenzy that has shaken the music industry and aroused fear among makers of motion pictures. But the publishing …

Another reason why the DMCA sucks syphilitics in a cesspool: Andrew Huang, an engineer and programmer in San Diego, has written a book called “Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering.” It has also been an introduction to copyright law in the digital age. Wiley Technology Publishing, a unit …