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"Digital comics | Mark Fiore, who earlier this week became the first editorial cartoonist to win the..."

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Digital comics | Mark Fiore, who earlier this week became the first editorial cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize exclusively for animated work, had his iPhone app rejected in December. Apple told Fiore that his NewsToons app, with its Flash-animated political satire, "contains content that ridicules public figures," a violation of its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement.

As Laura McGann notes in her article, Fiore isn't the first cartoonist to have difficulties with Apple: The...

"Political-cartoon animator Mark Fiore has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning,..."

"Political-cartoon animator Mark Fiore has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, becoming the first cartoonist to win exclusively for animated work."

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Artist Hector Casanova doesn't get much time to do comics....

Artist Hector Casanova doesn't get much time to do comics. Even though he's clearly a savant of the medium, there's relatively little of his sequential work circulating: the top-notch "Screamland" with Harold Sipe, "The Lurkers" with Steve Niles. He's been a little busy, making a living as an in-house illustrator for "The Kansas City Star," freelance designer, fine artist and owner-curator of the now-retired Green Door Gallery, once a bright light in the West Bottoms gallery explosion. With...

"Publishers Weekly has been acquired by PWxyz, LLC, a newly formed company headed by one-time PW..."

"Publishers Weekly has been acquired by PWxyz, LLC, a newly formed company headed by one-time PW publisher George Slowik. The acquisition includes the Web site publishersweekly.com and Publishers Weekly Show Daily. The new company will retain all of PW's editorial, art, and advertising employees and the magazine will remain headquartered in New York City. Cevin Bryerman will stay as publisher with Jim Milliot and Michael Coffey serving as co-editors. Slowik ran PW in the late 1980s and early ...

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"At the end of the day," Lee said, "I haven't seen anything more compelling on the digital side than..."

""At the end of the day," Lee said, "I haven't seen anything more compelling on the digital side than a print comic." Currently, he said, DC is treating digital and print as two separate products"

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Meanwhile, Marvel and IDW launch on the iPad today and have been offering their comics via digital downloads for over a year now.

IDW is on record as saying that several of their digital edtions have sold as many if not more copies as print editions. So...

In addition to the below: My observance of Easter. Fuck this Jesus shit. It's all...

In addition to the below: My observance of Easter. 

Fuck this Jesus shit. It's all make-believe. 

"But when it came to prosecuting Pfizer for its fraudulent marketing, the pharmaceutical giant had a..."

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But when it came to prosecuting Pfizer for its fraudulent marketing, the pharmaceutical giant had a trump card: Just as the giant banks on Wall Street were deemed too big to fail, Pfizer was considered too big to nail.

Why? Because any company convicted of a major health care fraud is automatically excluded from Medicare and Medicaid. Convicting Pfizer on Bextra would prevent the company from billing federal health programs for any of its products. It would be a corporate death sentence.

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