Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, our own Artopia and MCA Denver. (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment.)

Last weekend, we sent him to StarFest 2012, where he saw rapping Klingons, scantily clad women and other strange things. Read on.

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More Once Upon a Race photos.

Denverites really have no problem with getting up early on a weekend, donning a ridiculous costume and drinking -- all for a good cause (remember Cupid's Undie Run?)

It happened again over the weekend. Photos below.

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Noah Van Sciver

Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and out own Westword Artopia (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment, including his special comic, Punks V. Lizards.)

Last Friday, we sent him to MCA Denver, and this is what he saw...

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Does a beard make the man? It depends on who you ask. Historically, beards were used for warmth, intimidation of protection from enemies, but in modern times, women find beards only about two-thirds as attractive as a clean-shaven man. In Colorado, beards can be a seasonal look for the October-March snow, but are also worn year-round in homage of the pioneers who settled this land. (Or perhaps beards are really hip in some social circles.) Learn more about beards with the below infographic, then work on turning that stubble into a face rug everyone will look upon with envy.

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Last night at the Wazee Union. More photos below.

On Saturday night, March 10, Wazee Union was filled with comics, art, artists, music, open studios, beer from Breckenridge Brewery and music from Little Fyodore and Black Out Beat. Photographer Javid Rezvani brings back photos from the free event at the RiNo space.

More photos are below.

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That's right, he's standing on the back of a running buffalo while shooting at Native Americans.

The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave unveiled its new exhibit, Buffalo Bill Superhero, yesterday on Lookout Mountain. The character of Buffalo Bill (born William F. Cody) graced the cover of almost 2,000 dime novels more than a century ago, making him America's first comic-book hero -- and paving the way for Batman and Superman. But Buffalo Bill was a real man, too, and at one point the most famous man in the world.

For images of Buffalo Bill fighting a wolfpack while using a live wolf as a weapon, surfing on a log down a log flume, or standing the back of a buffalo while shooting a rifle at an attacking group of Indians, as well as many other fantastic situations, see the covers below.

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Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment.)

On Saturday night, we sent him to Artopia, and this is what he saw...

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John Severin

Legendary illustrator John Powers Severin, whose 60-year career in the comics world stretched from the dawning of MAD magazine to the Silver Age at Marvel to a gay revival of the Rawhide Kid and beyond, died over the weekend at his southeast Denver home. He was 90 years old.

"Truly the art world has suffered a great loss with John's passing -- but so has the human race," declared former Marvel president Stan Lee, in a statement released by Severin's family.

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Editor's Note: Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver previously visited the Denver Art Museum for us. Now see what happened when he dropped in at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment.

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Two times a year, the Xeric Foundation gives out grants to comic-book creators so that they have the financial means to publish their work. One of this round's recipients was local cartoonist Sam Spina, who last month used the grant money to publish Fight, the story of a champion who finally gets beaten and his struggle back to the top. "I always do pretty cutesy stuff and I wish I could make really gross comics, but whenever I try, it just comes out kind of cute, too," Spina says. "Fight's my grossest one yet, but it doesn't make your stomach hurt or anything."

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