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The Magnificent Six

Yesterday, we told you about all the the comics on offer, all completely free and gratis, for Free Comic Book Day on May 7. So the next question is, where can you get your hands on all this complimentary four-color fun?

1:30PM Fri. May 6, 2011, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

As Above So Below

Yes, this sort of thing makes us think of that one episode of The Simpsons, too. But then there's damned little in this life that can't make a person think of some Simpsons episode, am I right? As if the show itself were a part of some conspiracy of apophenia, and we were little more than unwilling pawns in the relentless power of –

2:23PM Thu. May 5, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Pages And Pages of Free Comics

What is Free Comic Book Day? Imagine record store day, but for comics. Oh, and they're free. The massive annual event for the comics industry takes place at stores across the world on Saturday, May 7. We've read the free issues on offer from your local stores this year, and here is a full run down of what's on offer, plus our hot picks.

11:40AM Thu. May 5, 2011, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The City We Built: Black Leaders of Austin

Black Pearl Books

Louisiana Surf Department, West Texas Exiles, William Harries Graham at Continental Club

Belles & Chimes Austin Night at Pinballz Arcade

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Ladies Are Funny Festival!

It's a gender-based thing, more or less. It's a comedy-based thing, most definitely. This fifth annual festival brings the funny in from all over the country – L.A.! Chicago! Boston! NYC! San Antonio! – for three days and nights (May 5, 6, 7) of unstoppered hilarity of the sketch and improv and stand-up and even short-film varieties.

11:33AM Thu. Apr. 28, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Bedside Manner: In Media Res

Eyeballing the dozen books I have littered around my bed's perimeter, I'm startled to realize that while I've read at least a few pages of all of them, and a few hundred pages of one, I haven't finished any of them – not by a long shot. It's not that I have a short-attention span, not exactly – more like a perverse aversion to closing the book on a book.

8:10PM Wed. Apr. 27, 2011, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Things Not To Fear: 1) The Reaper, 2) The World Horror Convention in Austin

As promised yesterday, here's that interview with Nate Southard and Lee Thomas, the co-chairs of the annual World Horror Convention that's invading – like some chthonic force rising up from the depths, perhaps? – our sun-baked gotham this weekend.

12:45PM Wed. Apr. 27, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

What's in Steve Niles' Head?

When it comes to horror comics, Steve Niles knows artists. He needs to, with the volume of projects he has penned. So that creates a real challenge for anyone attending today's signing at Austin Books and Comics: What to get autographed?

8:00AM Wed. Apr. 27, 2011, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

The World Horror Convention? In Austin!

It’s unlikely that you’ll encounter any actual psychopaths at the 20th annual World Horror Convention this coming weekend. It’s highly unlikely, since estimates suggest that only 1 to 4 percent of a population harbors the traits that require such a designation.

That can lead to violently and intentionally severed carotid arteries, for instance.

11:19AM Tue. Apr. 26, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

A Twirl and a Tease

Call them bunnies or panty wranglers or stage hands: The true heroines of last weekend's Texas Burlesque Festival were the brave assistants who cleared, collected and collated every last item of clothing dropped to the floor by the performers.

3:22PM Thu. Apr. 21, 2011, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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