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• Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes

  
  Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Authority: 679
  Metro Legal | Joseph Mayton and Marwa Rakha have more on an Egyptian courts official banning over the weekend of Metro -- considered that countrys first adult graphic novel -- and the $900 fines handed down to author Magdy al Shafee and publisher Mohammed al Sharqawi for infringing public decency. "The novel ...
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• Convention Programming Thirty Years Ago

  
  The Crotchety Old Fan — Authority: 496
  Over on the LTSNBN, there’s a lot of discussion regarding what “real” conventions are and are not.  (I am ego gratified to see that my articulation of the “experiencing vs participating” difference is holding up fairly well.) One point of distinction is that of the presence or absence of “actors” ...
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• AFA 09 – Day 2 Cosplay by inferno0748

  
  The Banzai! Effect ( ??! ????? ) - Nexus of Japan's Anime, Lifestyle and Otaku Culture — Authority: 431
  #1 – Noumi Kudryavka from Little Buster! (as above) Hello! I am back again to post the cosplay pictures for AFA day 2. Sadly, I was tired after day 1 so there were less pictures. (time to train. orz) It was an AWESOME event! Let’s hope that there will be AFA2010. AFA Banzai!!! #2 – Kirin Armor of Monster ...
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• Monster squad!

  
  Phatcomics — Authority: 124
  Thought Bubble 2009_4946 , originally uploaded by Matthew Kitchen . Matthew Kitchen has uploaded a huge bunch of photos from Thought Bubble. Here is the Monster team. ROAR!
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• Stargate Atlantis’ Jason Momoa signing

  
  The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log — Authority: 619
  It looks like Monday November 30th is going to be an especially great day for fans of the fantastic genres in Birmingham; as announced a few days ago the great Robert Englund will be in our Nostalgia & Comics store (14-16 Smallbrook, Queensway) in Brum that afternoon and now he will be joined by the towering ...
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• iRingPro Offers Free iPhone Ringtones

  
  iPhone News at Desinformado.com | The Complete Source for iPhone News — Authority: 148
  San Francisco based iRingPro today will post a free downloadable trial pack of its popular iPhone and MP3 ringtones. The free iPhone ringtone download contains a sample ringtone from each collection including iRingPros Tek Collection, and the Zen 2 Collection. The free iPhone ringtones also include a coupon code that ...
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• Catching up on some photos

  
  tim sievert's virtual news log — Authority: 100
  So Fallcon was weeks and weeks and weeks ago here in the Twin Cities. I never posted my photos from the show so here they are, as eight color gifs! Our table. Aaron Poliwoda’s table. Tom K’s table. Sam Hiti’s table. Sarah Morean’s table comic dispenser. Brett VonSchlosser and Lewis Tuck. A ...
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• Holiday of Horrors

  
  Horror Society — Authority: 139
  We are going to give you a Christmas Present this year! On December 12th we will be back at the Portage theater once again with a great lineup of films for your Christmas Horror Season. Come dressed as Santa and…
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• WexWorlds Saturday Report

  
  File 770 — Authority: 136
  Alexandra Drafilova at WexWorlds By James Bacon: So as Ireland took it upon itself to deftly sink in parts, the phrase ‘grand soft day’ was rapidly replaced with ‘Jesus Mary, Mother of God.’ Saturday, Day two, began with a strong sun bitterly shinning down coldly on a damp Wexford. Nearby Enniscorthy was ...
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• South African Teen Hopes Magic Is His Ticket Away From Home

  
  iTricks.com Magic News, Magic Videos and Podcasts — Authority: 513
  Nkombuzo Nkonyana is a budding illusionist and Jeff McBride fan. He hopes his part of a soccer-themed stage act entitled Soccermania could be his ticket out of one of the most crime-riddled areas of Cape Town, South Africa. According to this report, Nkonyana performed this routine at the World Magic Seminar in Vegas. ...
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• nutcase23’s Day 2 Aftermath and Thoughts

  
  The Banzai! Effect ( ??! ????? ) - Nexus of Japan's Anime, Lifestyle and Otaku Culture — Authority: 431
  Picture is legal because it was taken AFTER the concert ended ^^;; It has been a tiring but AWESOME two days of crazy fun in AFA 09. I thought I’d wrap things up (for myself) before I sink back into depression and restart my studies for my upcoming exams. Again, pics taken from AFA 09 webby First ...
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• Ken Krueger, publisher and Comic-Con co-founder, passes away

  
  Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Authority: 679
  Ken Krueger Ken Krueger, co-founder and first chairperson of the event that became Comic-Con International, passed away Nov. 21. Krueger, who attended the very first science-fiction convention in 1939 in New York City, was owner of Alert Books in Ocean Beach, California, when he met Shelton Dorf in early 1970. The ...
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• Mawil and Trondheim in Glasgow this Wednesday

  
  The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log — Authority: 619
  This week in Glasgow there’s a rare chance to see and hear two highly acclaimed comics creators from the European scene, with Mawil and Lewis Trondheim appearing in the city’s Goethe Institut (in conjunction with the Alliance Français) on Wednesday 25th November at 7pm . The evening will be chaired by ...
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• Creation Entertainment’s Stargate Chicago Convention 2010 Launches

  
  Convention Fans — Authority: 131
  On Friday, Creation Entertainment officially announced their Stargate SG-1 / Atlantis / Universe Chicago Convention for 2010. It is happening August 27-29 at the Westin O’Hare Hotel. Despite being so far out, they do have two guests already lined up: Michael Shanks and David Hewlett. Michael Shanks ...
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• BGG.con: One Night in Dallas

  
  Yehuda — Authority: 425
  My taxi ride from the Westin to Dallas proper ... or, I should say, one of my taxi rides. I forgot to mention the several times that I played Tichu, one of which was pretty epic. We decided to play to 500, after our opponents got 300 on the first hand. In the next hand, my partner (playing for the second day of his ...
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• home again home again jiggety-jig

  
  Where Personal and Professional Life Collide... — Authority: 134
  Home, as the header says, from Philcon. It was -- after the chaos of World Fantasy -- a very laid back little convention for me: I spent several hours hanging out in the SFWA suite, talking to folk from southofJersey whom I dont see often enough in conversation-conducive atmospheres. Possibly as a result, I also got ...
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• BGG.con Sunday

  
  Yehuda — Authority: 425
  At the Geekbuzz station. BGG.con is now wrapping up and Ill try to help clean up, get a ride to Dallas, hit 1/2 Priced Books, and a bridge club this evening with David. Then to Toronto tomorrow. Played Times Up (a expansion about titles) - its a party game, hard, but fun. Played a game whose name I cant remember with ...
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• WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2010 ANNOUNCES THREE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS

  
  Eternal Vigilance — Authority: 132
  World Horror Convention 2010 is excited to announce that we will be holding three different Creative Writing Workshops over the Saturday and Sunday of the convention, to be tutored by MORT CASTLE, NANCY KILPATRICK and JO FLETCHER. Mort Castle has been a writer for over four decades, and a writing teacher for almost ...
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• 2010 National Haunters Convention Coupons

  
  Hellnotes — Authority: 138
  Schwamberger promised hed have some discount coupons available for the 2010 National Haunters Convention. Well, true to his word, he now has 40 coupons to give out.
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• Moé Moé Rabu: Eminence’s A Night in Fantasia 2009

  
  Anime Nano! — Authority: 171
  It’s been about two years since I last went to an Eminence concert and back then it was my first time going. I wasn’t too amazed by it then since that concert was a small one and I have never experienced Eminence at it’s full potential. A few months ago I heard from my sister [...]
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