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We spoke with Seattle jazz composer Andrew Boscardin about his new album Four-Color Heroes, the kind of inspiration you get from comic books, and what jazz that wears tights and a cape sounds like. Download the song "Professor Kubert" here, or listen to "Grimm's Waltz" on Jazz NW. more ›

The Emerald City ComiCon is this weekend (!!), so graphic novel and comic book enthusiasts of all stripes will be gathering at the Convention Center downtown to celebrate their passion. The Times just leaked that an intriguing announcement will be made there this weekend: the son of the man who arrested the Green River Killer is working on a 120-page graphic novelization of the dramatic story to be published by Dark Horse Comics sometime next year. The Pacific Northwest has a dark fascination with the saga, so we won't be surprised if it sells well. Still...weird. more ›

HellboyDR by Dave Zombie more ›

JUST LIKE CLOCKWORK: This is your best bet for smooth grooving local hiphop this weekend. Clockwork probably make you very happy, but Macklemore is guaranteed to do so; his live show is unstoppably entertaining and his songs are both thoughtful and hilarious. This is his first show in town since July, people. Plus, XPerience might sing and Candidt might do "VooDoo." All of those prospects in combination are absolutely worth the rainy drive to Nectar. more ›

7 p.m., Friday // El Chupacabra, 6711 Greenwood Ave // 21+ more ›

When Titans Clash! by earinc more ›

Local illustrator/writer/cartoonist Jeremy Eaton has an epic blog post about how the Hulk almost got him laid. Apparently back in the dark ages before the internet, people had to turn to the fan mail columns of comic books for their social networking needs. The story is funny as hell. Go read it. more ›

Admission: We don't know shit about graphic novels (we were more baseball cards than comic books in our day) more ›

Seattlest used to read a lot of comic books. We still read comic books, actually, just not as many of them since we shook the Marvel monkey off our back in college. (Yeah, we read trade paperback collections from the library. And started buying 52. Shut up.) more ›

What will the weekend bring? Why, the new 4A state basketball champion, of course! So the staff of Seattlest picks our favorites in today's critical semifinal game between Franklin and Curtis. Also, they mention some other stuff they are interested in. more ›

Remember If All of Seattle Read the Same Book, the Seattle Public Library-sponsored event wherein, as you might guess, all of Seattle was encouraged to read the same book? (At the same time, no less.) more ›

One of our favorite MC's, Aesop Rock, is playing at the Showbox tomorrow night. We like him mainly because he has a great seesaw-type delivery and occasionally drops references to comic books. We like to think he is the MC we would have become if we had actual talent and didn't grow up in a small town in Pennsylvania. more ›

What's better than comic books? Why, free comic books, of course! Tell your action figures to make way on that shelf, cause the Fourth Annual Free Comic Book Day takes place this Saturday, May 7. What does that mean? It means you and all your Seth Cohen -wannabe friends can choose from among 30 different special edition comic books, absolutely gratis. more ›

If you’re a radio fan who craves the offbeat and simply weird, there’s no better place to tune in on a Friday night than KBCS, 91.3 FM. From 11 pm until 1 am, the esteemed Reverend Bubba Levi Greenacres spins a strange audio web from a techno remix of Lawrence Welk to the Muppets to Shooby Taylor to Leonard Nimoy to Shonen Knife to the Latin Hebrew Hip-Hop of the Hip Hop Hoodios. more ›