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Fox News, trounced and ridiculed in court and in the blogosphere (see Ernest Svenson’s analysis here), has dropped its lawsuit against Al Franken: The lawsuit had sought unspecified damages from Franken and Penguin Group, publisher of “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at …

Contrary to reports last week, Courtney Love’s mother Linda Carroll is denying that she is Marlon Brando’s daughter and that Courtney is Brando’s granddaughter: Linda Carroll, 59, became the focus of attention last week when a story surfaced in a London newspaper that Brando was Love’s grandfather by virtue of …

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.