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Read this. It’s funny (Click image for full comic):

Thanks to Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog

The much loved, free counter-culture magazine is halting operations due to difficulties between the magazines co-owners, Jay Babcock and Laris Kreslins.  The LA Times has the full story…

Asked whether he could resurrect Arthur, Babcock said: “No. . . . I’m broke, I have no income, and I don’t even have the rights to my baby.”

 

The lovely folks at Family are having a wake/party to celebrate Arthur next Thursday.

Come on out to Meltdown on Sunset on Saturday, February 24 for a pencilling workshop and portfolio review session with Stephen Platt.
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Wow. How gorgeous does this look? Bart Beaty reveiws Frederik Peeters’ Lupus over on Spurgeon’s The Comics Reporter.

“Lupus is the story of a twenty-something young man on an intergalactic fishing vacation with his friend, Ted. They roam from planet to exotic planet in their spaceship, doing drugs, eating local delicacies, meeting girls, and, um, fishing. This slackers in space comic, the first science fiction epic in which virtually nothing happens, is interrupted by the arrival of Sanaa, a young woman on the run from her billionaire father. In short order Lupus is smitten, Ted is tragically and violently killed, and the duo is on the run.”

Um, do I have any French readers who will sit down and read this to me?

Michael Davis and Mark Davis, the Mad Twinz of Street Legends, will be attending a panel at the NY Comic Con tomorrow for black content in entertainment.  If you’re crammed into the convention hall, seek refuge at 3:30 at that Javits Center and listen to some smart folks speak wise on comics.

Also, keep your eye out for the Blokhedz graphic novel, published by Simon & Schuster who do those books-without-pictures things that I keep hearing about.

I’m particularly fond of Drew Friedman’s new strip for New York Observer.  He shows us the Guilty Pleasures of Literary Greats.  My favorite is Vladimir Nabokov’s suspicion of Dennis Menace’s legitimcay, since the little terror looks nothing like his father.

Joshua Hale Fialkov and Noel Tuazon, the writer/artist team behind the Harvey-nominated Elk’s Run (available next month from Random House/Villard) have released the first chapter of their next work, Three Rivers, but it’s not on stands. The first 8-page installment can be read online.

 Visit THE BEAT for the full story, and visit Three Rivers to start reading.

DID YOU KNOW?
1. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs?
2. Although bourbon is Kentucky’s leading export and its production directly employs thousands of people, it is illegal to buy the product in the very counties in which it is produced?
3. More than 400,000 Americans die from diseases related to cigarette smoking each year and more than 150,000 Americans die of alcohol abuse each year?
4. The average person loses two ballpoint pens a week?
5. The size of a typical American home has increased from 1100 to 1800 square feet over the past ten years?

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After a three-week hiatus, my column is back, starting with an interview with Richard Starkings on the writer/letterer relationship.

Read it here>>

In some ways, I feel like I’ve been waiting my entire life to write that headline.  So, at this point we all know that in Spider-Man: Reign #3 we learn that Peter Parker accidentally killed Mary Jane with his radioactive cum, right? 

The Internet is abuzz, Fanboys cry in pain to their Gods, and, of course, Warren Ellis get to the heart of the matter…

“Listen, if every Marvel character kills someone with their sex juices and every DC character becomes an adorable 8 year old girl, Paul Levitz will be out of a job in a year and Joe Quesada will own the eastern seaboard of the United States.

“These people have their penises on the pulse of America. Trust them to do their work.”

Quote pulled from Warren Ellis’ The Engine.