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Somewhere Around The Number Ten Best Comics That Nobody Told You About

Part 1: I love Chris Ware. Bit redundant to say so this holiday season with everyone and their sister buying Building Stories, but with so much comic awesomeness that happened in 2012; between Charles Burn’s second installment to his X’ed Out trilogy, The Hive, and Brian K. Vaughn’s Saga…SAGA… It’s too easy for amazing comics [...]


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Dame Darcy Book Party Slash Signing

Forbidden Planet NYC is proud to announce a special event with Dame Darcy- illustrator, writer, fine artist, musician, filmmaker, and author of the new Handbook for Hot Witches. Join us on Thursday October 11th at 7pm to celebrate the new book, and be sure to check out our front window beginning the second week of [...]


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VHS in the NYT and QUADEAD @ MAD Museum

Today in the New York Times Arts and Leisure section you will find a little article about the VHS Series at the Museum of Arts and Design.  I know you all already know about it, but that’s because you are hip and you follow the Daily Planet… or maybe because I won’t shut up about it.  Hey [...]


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Something Weird @ MAD Museum 6/9/12 7PM

Believe it or not all my rambling about VHS has paid off! The Museum of Art and Design, Jake Yuzna, Rebecca Cleman and I (Matthew Desiderio) have put together the mother of all VHS tributes with screenings, workshops, and a real functioning video store on site. VHS at MAD takes places between June 9th and August [...]


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The Weekly Pulse – Picard Man-Who-ver

Oh sure, we’ve got a bunch of hot new trades in this week; Batman Annual #1: Night of the Owls, Batman: Death by Design, Animal Man Annual #1. But the big news this week is: Star Trek the Next Generation Doctor Who  Assimilation #1. Not just the comic, which we have; but the in-store signing [...]


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Graphic Canon Event at The Rubin Museum

To do/experience in NYC this Wednesday, May 23rd… Size constraints on the Daily Planet and/or your screen probably morph the above image into something Selma or Patty Bouvier might use to screw with you at the DMV, so here’s the above in plain text: Wednesday May 23, 2012 @ 7:00 PM Price: $12.00 Member Price: [...]


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Ivan Reis and Eddy Barrows Signing Monday October 17th!

Monday October 17th 5:30pm to 7pm In-store signing with artists Ivan Reis and Eddy Barrows! Come by Forbidden Planet NYC and meet the talents behind many great titles, including Blackest Night and Nightwing!


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Godzilla Does Right

Those who say Godzilla is all about destruction, feast your eyes on this! Artist Boris Rasin’s Godzilla Does Right shows the big guy pitching in.  Even if hes not the best house painter, at least he gives it his best. Godzilla Does Right is currently on view at NURTUREart as part of the group show [...]


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B-Horror Art Show at MF Gallery

Grab your self a fresh pair of underwear cause those cool cats from MF Gallery are hosting an awesome B-Horror themed art show that will make you crap!  Some good friends of mine (who just so happen to be killer artists) like Michael Nirenberg and Kirsten Flaherty are involved so show your support. Here’s a [...]


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Matt Jones Multiverse Opening Tonight!

You read the title… The opening reception for the Matt Jones exhibition Multiverse at Freight+Volume is today.  So get off your butt and go check out some art! What: Matt Jones Multiverse Opening Reception When: Today Thursday March 31 6PM Where: Freight + Volume 530 W. 24th Street (btw 10th and 11th Ave) Manhattan NY [...]


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Matt Jones Multiverse

Fans of Wolverine, Stephen Hawking and Black Flag make sure to mark your calendar’s for Matt Jones Multiverse! Matt is a good friend of mine (and a great customer for that matter) and this is his first solo art exhibit at the Freight + Volume gallery so I want everyone to make an effort to [...]


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Happy Birthday Will Eisner

Today is Will Eisner’s 94th birthday!  Why is it that we celebrate a persons birth even after death?  Why not celebrate his death day?  Or better yet, lets celebrate an important day in the persons life.  Anyway, let us not have my questions rain on this parade, Mother Nature is doing  a good enough job [...]


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Comics Stripped at The Museum of Sex

Comics Stripped, a new exhibit at the Museum of Sex here in NYC, opens today.  Comics historian Craig Yoe (Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster, Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings) is serving as co-curator. From simple titillation to hardcore representations, comics have a long history of incorporating humor, scandal, fantasy and fun [...]


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This Week in NYC: Spidey Editors @ MoCCA 2/11

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art here in NYC is running an exhibition of the original art for the entire issue of Amazing Spider-Man #50, as pencilled by John Romita Jr. with inks by Scott Hanna, and to kick this puppy into gear they’re hosting an evening with Spidey editors past and present. In [...]


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