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Welcome to Nerdspan’s recap of the 19th incarnation of Kansas City’s Planet Comicon. This year’s event once again took place at Bartle Hall in downtown Kansas City. The massive convention …
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Boom! Box, an imprint of Boom! Studios, is back with a new series, “Goldie Vance”, which chronicles the adventures of the titular detective. NerdSpan was able to chat a bit …
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The most recent incarnation of Planet Comicon Kansas City was held May 20th-22nd at Bartle Hall in downtown Kansas City. While attendance figures for this year’s show are not available …
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Planet Comicon returned to Kansas City for their largest event yet recently. The event, held once again in Downtown Kansas City’s Bartle Hall took place the weekend of March …
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Hot off the heels of another sellout printing comes a new photo variant cover for “Geek-Girl”, published under the Actuality Press banner.  “Geek-Girl” #0, created and written by Sam Johnson …
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The Black Feather Falls, a new story from Ellen Lindley, author of “Undertow” tells the story of Tina Swift, an American who has recently relocated to London during …
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Hot on the heels of the 2013 Harvey Award nominations (harveyawards.org), BOOM! Studios has decided to celebrate their combined nine nominations by announcing reprints from their Archaia imprint, including two …
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Friday night’s programming slate was headlined by the 25th anniversary edition of the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The ceremony, held in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel was …
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Greetings, one and all! Your intrepid NerdSpan crew is on the scene at San Diego C0mic-Con 2013 and have some neat tidbits to share with you all!

Thursday night was …
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In a release dated July 8, 2013, the ownership group behind Atlanta’s long running and immensely popular Dragon*Con announced they had severed ties with Ed Kramer, the con’s co-founder who …
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Wiseguy Industries announced this week that they were prepping to launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding to meet completion costs for Brian Bell’s new book, “Cain The Conqueror”. The fund drive begins July 1st and runs through July 31st of 2013. Pics and a description of the title’s aims are available after the jump!

Via a recent press release, BOOM! Studios announced today that they had merged with the recently struggling publisher Archaia Entertainment and have big plans for Archaia’s stable of critically acclaimed Eisner and Harvey Award properties. More details and the full text of the press release after the jump.