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Some favorite comic reads of 2023, check them out!
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Happy 30th Anniversary Clay Fighter, for this was the day of its first release to the SNES!
We take a look back at this wonderfully silly game here.
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Cheers to the just announced winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards:
Best Novel – Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher (Tor Books)
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
Best Novella – Where the Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
Best Novelette – “The Space-Time Painter”, by Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge, April 2022)
Best Short Story – “Rabbit Test”, by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022)
Best Series – Children of Time Series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Macmillan/Orbit)
Best Graphic Story or Comic – Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams, by Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books)
Best Related Work – Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, by Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form – Everything Everywhere All at Once, screenplay by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert (IAC Films / Gozie AGBO)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form – The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes”, written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Alcon Entertainment)
Best Editor, Short Form – Neil Clarke
Best Editor, Long Form – Lindsey Hall
Best Professional Artist – Enzhe Zhao
Best Semiprozine – Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing/poetry editor Chimedum Ohaegbu; managing editor Monte Lin; nonfiction editor Meg Elison; podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky.
Best Fanzine – Zero Gravity Newspaper, by RiverFlow and Ling Shizhen
Best Fancast – Hugo, Girl!, by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
Best Fan Writer – Chris M. Barkley
Best Fan Artist – Richard Man
Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (presented by the World Science Fiction Society) – Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts), by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Astounding Award for Best New Writer – Travis Baldree (1st year of eligibility)
More details with nominees here.
Notes from the San Diego Comic Con’s Exhibit Hall of 2023.. Click here!
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Happy 3oth Anniversary to Magic the Gathering, released on August 5, 1993. Here is are some of Richard Garfield’s proto versions on display at Seattle’s MoPop Museum (from around 2016, not sure if still there.)
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RIP Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, recently passed away at 70. Take a moment and observe what an amazing feat his work, Pee’s Wee’s Playhouse, truly was with this 2006 Adult Swim bumper.
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Graphic Novel Preview: In Search of Gil Scott-Heron . Click here!
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San Diego Comic Con 2023 reactions, coming up soon!
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Admiring the winners (and second look at the nominees) of the Eisner Comics Awards of 2023. Click here!
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Happy 35th Anniversary AKIRA, a Japanimation cyberpunk cinematic masterpiece. (our respective here).
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Read, a 10-page preview of “Mother Nature”, a new graphic novel co-written by Jamie Lee Curtis. (click here)
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Nights #1 brings a mix of many fun genres through its new comic series, coming soon.(more details with a preview here)
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“A Haunted Girl” delivers a supernatural take with a personal edge to comic shelves, this Fall. (click here for more)
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Look “Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees” at a new and different horror comic series.. (preview with more details here)
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Image Comics / Top Cow put forth details on Destiny’s gate, a new series set for new comic shelves on August 11,2023:
“Destiny Gate, a blend of Inception and Amnesia: The Dark Descent, is an action-packed, immersive series based on the game concept by Paul Limon and being penned by Ryan Cady (Haunt You to the End, The Joker, Magdalena), illustrated by Christian DiBari (Revolvers, The Clay People: Colossus, Tales Told in Techni-Horror) and colored by Simon Gough.” Click for direct info!
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Mech Cadets #1 comic series first look from Boom! Studios, by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa..set for August release! More details here.
Check this limited edition DJ Lance Rock pin set backdrop at the Hyperactive Monkey booth at the next SDCC (#2744). Artist signings too…just get the tickets first!
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Murdered out Dumpster Fire and Toxic Waste Dumpster Fire Nuclear Blast Edition (glow in the dark) vinyl figurines by Truck Torrance of 100% soft, at booth #1335 at the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con for $30/$32 each!
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Captain Orion is excited for Mr. Lovenstein Presents: FEELINGS, the followup vol. 2 of J.L. Westover Mr. Lovenstein Presents: FAILURE: …now on Kickstarter with 8 days to go.
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Watercolor artist Martin Hsu has original paintings up for sale, featuring Ted Lasso Cats, available online and for pickup at his 2023 San Diego Comic Con booth. More details here!
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Stranger Worlds is now on TikTok. Follow @_strangerworlds and stay tuned for sweet reels coming up!
Huge cheers to all the 2023 Hugo Awards nominees recently annouced. Noticing some big surprises, and some well deserved works throughout, (Full list frrom the official site)
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Cheers on the 40th anniversary of the Crystal Castles, one of the first video games to have a story-based ending (no kill screen).
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Image Comics released schedule for the San Diego Comic Con booth #1915, and hosted panels! (all here)
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Artist Kevin Tong art prints on holographic foil paper with spot varnish, available at the San Diego Comic Con in very limited quantities..(for more details).
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IDW Publishing released schedule and exclusives for the San Diego Comic Con! (all here)
Symbiote Studios Catnip Bravo Exclusives for the San Diego Comic Con revealed. More info here..
Love this Space Usagi Action Figure “Stan Sakai” Edition, exclusive to the San Diego Comic Con at Stan Sakai’s booth and official site (stansakai.com), along with other exclusives!
More info here.
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Captain Orion is excited to attend the San Diego Comic Con for the 29th turn round its closest star. More on this soon!
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal” – Ray Bradbury
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Stranger Worlds is back online. But, very different. this time.
strangerworlds.com 