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To most people, a banana is breakfast. To John King, it’s a character with relationship issues, a complicated love life, and at least one pun it really should have kept to itself. That’s the premise of Fruit Gone Bad, the cartoonist’s long-running comic series in which fruits, vegetables, snacks, and even the odd haystack or…

A relatively quiet edition of this week’s links, as most of the comics-based press and PR machinery in North America is currently focused on east coast happenings, with this year’s edition of New York Comic Con, but there’s still plenty enough to tide us over until we find out just what’s to occur in the…

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The messages kept arriving in the same words: you cannot be an elf because you are not white. Ismael Cruz Córdova has quoted that sentence in interviews almost word for word, because nothing sums up more cleanly what he walked into when Amazon cast him as Arondir, a Silvan elf soldier in The Lord of…

A basketball game no longer occupies one screen or even one room. The 2025–26 NBA season generated a record 228 billion social-media views, while more than 1.3 billion hours of live game coverage were consumed across measured linear and streaming markets outside League Pass. That scale explains why fandom now feels less like forty-eight minutes…

Some believe longtime fans like Spike Lee deserve a championship ring, but fellow New York Knicks superfan Chris Rock demands one.

The former Fever guard opened up about the A’ja Wilson incident, fan culture and her disappointment with the WNBA’s changing identity.

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A new Disney fandom feud is beginning to unfold as designers of notable small businesses are noticing accounts on Etsy using AI to replicate their original work. A popular independent designer is calling attention to their Disney-inspired illustrated designs being remade with AI and being sold as a new product on Etsy.

Some of the best stories come from the people we know best. For cartoonist Mikal Malik, that means his own family.