Comic book creator Harvey Pekar, who serialized his life in a series of critically-acclaimed graphic novels, was found dead by his wife Joyce Brabner shortly before 1 a.m. today in his Cleveland home, Cleveland.com reports. In 2003, Pekar's life and work were dramatized in the excellent film American Splendor (starring Paul Giamatti), and he described the comics as "a series of day-after-day activities that have more influence on a person than any spectacular or traumatic events. It's the 99 percent of life that nobody ever writes about." more ›

The vlogosphere has its first shake-up: Rocketboom's Amanda Congden was, in her words, unboomed (she has a video, natch). Wanting to set the record straight after Rocketboom showed a week of non-Amanda clips, she says that her Rocketboom partner - and owner of a 51% share in Rocketboom - Andrew Baron fired her and she actually starts to get teary in the video. ValleyWag says she seems much realer in this clip or "it's a hoax and Congdon's finally learned how to act." more ›

If you're a fan of Overheard in New York, you're going to love today's Google Maps Mashup. Overplot takes "2876 quotes at 1108 locations" and reformats it all as a clickable map. So now you can find quotes conviently located near your home or office. For instance, near Gothamist HQ: more ›

A few weeks back the guys who run the Overheard sites got into a big disagreement, which ended with the publisher (Morgan) pushing the editor (Michael Malice) out of the site. Malice went on to found his own version of the site As we're no fan of blog-beef, we were glad to hear that the guys settled their feud yesterday: more ›

Michael Malice, Evil Genius, Editor, Overheard in New York, Subject, Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story more ›

Animal Magazine's 6th Issue comes out this week-- and Bucky was nice enough to messenger us over a copy, since we unfortunately missed Animal's "Save Krucoff" themed party at BLVD on Wednesday night. The magazine is beatuiful and glossy and filled with pictures of scantily clad girls-- but we were interested in one feature in particular: a series of interviews with some of our NYC blog colleagues. Our favorite quotes: more ›

Dear Gothamist Readers: more ›