Local creator April Reyna has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in computer animation, but since graduating from Arizona State University, she has focused her creativity and artistic skills on comic book illustration, saying, “I love to draw and feel that that is my goal in life.”
April began her comic art career with Heroic Age Studios where she worked on color separations for DC comics including Justice League of America, Teen Titans and Wonder Woman. She has since worked as a freelance artist on projects including Devi-licious Recipe Adventures, Alien …

The creative forces behind downtown Mesa’s Royale independent moviehouse are back with an online “horror host show” in the vein of classics like Elvira, with wrap-around segments to be filmed on a laboratory set at downtown Mesa’s Monsterland Bar & Grill.

Article by Ashley Nyal, writer for Geek News Network
I like to think the Phoenix area has a pretty successful club scene going on. Scottsdale and Mill Ave. are the places that come to mind when you think of drinking, dancing, and flirting on Friday and Saturday nights. If the trance/techno and hip-hop scenes aren’t really your thing, then you might want to check out a Fetish Ball or some kind of event hosted by the very erotic and wicked people at Horns and Halos – more about those nifty people in …

According to The Associated Press, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a new version of a bill that once threatened to make it a crime to “annoy or offend” someone online. Now, it only makes it a crime to use a digital device with the intent to intimidate or threaten, and the threat must be directed at a specific individual or group.
It was part of an effort to update Arizona’s harassment and stalking laws to include smartphones and online communication.
Read more at The East Valley Tribune.

Diablo 3 players are being asked to be patient as Blizzard works to repair the servers that crashed when the game was finally released after 12 years. Confusion over the server crash sent throngs of people to Battle.net to get answers, downing that site, as well.

The TRON: Uprising prelude “Beck’s Beginning” has hit the Web, but it’s worth noting that the 30-minute episode will also be aired 9:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific this Friday, May 18, on Disney XD, where the series will live when it officially launches June 7 at 9 p.m.
The series stars the voice work of original TRON icon Bruce Boxleitner (pictured above) as well as Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore, Tricia Helfer, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reubens (yes, really) and more. I found “Beck’s Beginning” an impressive beginning indeed and I’m looking forward to …

After an appearance on local television to promote their spring workshops, seven princesses from Ahwatukee Children’s Theatre (ACT) were invited to make a guest appearance at this year’s Phoenix Comicon, May 24-27 at the Phoenix Convention Center downtown.

This movie trailer for Hotel Transylvania, opening this fall, seems to be giving Halloween the Monsters, Inc. treatment. And I approve.