Tag Archives: New York

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Transfers Assets to the Society of Illustrators

New York City’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, which recently announced it was immediately closing its gallery, will now be housed in the Society of Illustrators…

Destinies to feature blockbuster new movies for the next month

Destinies, the science fiction radio program broadcasting from SUNY Stony Brook, will feature a programs on this summer’s blockbuster movie releases The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises

Actor Richard Lynch Dies

Actor Richard Lynch (1940-2012) frequently played the villain, and won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor…

Midtown Comics moving into FAO Schwarz

Fifteen-year-old New York City comic retailer Midtown Comics is scheduled to open its fourth location, inside iconic toy store FAO Schwarz…

Artist and author Maurice Sendak dies

Artist and author Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) created Where the Wild Things Are and many other children’s classics…

Enterprise is coming to town

In which SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock takes the morning off to greet the arrival of Space Shuttle Test Vehicle Enterprise in New York City…

A wide range of fantastic tales in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination is Warren Lapine’s new anthology, taking an SF magazine sensibility into the anthology market. He brings 14 very diverse stories by a wide range of authors. These stories do not disappoint…

150 of the Greatest Horror Films You’ve Never Seen

Apex Publications will publish the nonfiction 150 of the Greatest Horror Films You’ve Never Seen by Rebekah and David McKendry in fall 2012…

10th MoCCA Fest is on the way

The tenth MoCCA Fest, showcasing smaller comics, will be April 28 and 29 in New York City…

24th annual Lambda Award nominees announced

The 24 categories of awards include one for Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror, and the winners will be announced…

Sam Humphries’ Higher Earth moves the battle from other planets to other Earths

BOOM! Studios is publishing Sam Humphries’ High Eearth, a sci-fi revenge story set in an empire covering a hundred Earths in alternate time-lines…

Columbia University is hosting a two-day symposium on comics

Comic New York: A Symposium, will bring together creator and academics to discuss the intertwined histories of American comics and New York City, in a two-day, free-to-the-public event this month…

DAW hiring Contracts and Subsidiary Rights Associate

DAW Books has a job opening for a Contracts and Subsidiary Rights Associate. The position is full-time at the publisher’s New York offices…

MoCCA celebrates Will Eisner Week

MoCCA’s panel “Will Eisner: Making the World Safe for Graphic Novels” will feature Paul Levitz, Dennis O’Neil, Judith Hansen, Karen Green, and Danny Fingeroth…

Chris Steinbrunner, and a Renaissance of Fantasy

Fan and friend James H. Burns hopes to revive Edgar Award-winner Chris Steinbrunner’s legacy…