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Sunday Runaround – It's Good To Be Nick Spencer

Published Sun, 09 Jan 2011 04:36:45 -0600

Last updated Sun, 09 Jan 2011 04:36:58 -0600

AppealWatch: Colourist Tom Ziuko has been hospitalised for kidney failure, but has no more health insurance to cover treatment. Alan Kupperberg is rallying a fundraising appeal to help the freelancing stalwart of the comics scene. Paypal conributions can be sent to kupperberg@earthlink.net. Tom can be reached in hospital at Atomica999@aol.com.

StripWatch: The Appeal-Democrat flip-flops over its comic strips, running Stone Soup again after heavy complaints from readers after tghe strip was dropped a month ago.

GoldenAgeWatch: The 97 year old Captain Marvel artist Marc Swayze gets profiled by his local paper.

PrequelWatch: Via The Beat, it looks like Seth has finished a prequel to one of my favourite graphic novels of late, Wimbledon Green.

PitchWatch: Gotham High, a pitch to DC Comics that never went anywhere. Shame…

This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.

These are the Glory days for writer Nick Spencer – USATODAY.com

Like most popular scribes nowadays, Spencer is dealing with Hollywood and TV networks wanting to adapt his work to the big or small screen. His 2009 comic Existence 2.0 is set up at Paramount Pictures, with a script by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, and there will be more announcements this year, according to Spencer.

Time Warner, Inc. – Job details

DC Entertainment seeks a Marketing Representative for the DCE Sales, Marketing & Business Development in Burbank.

Portland Comics: Questions 24: Diana Schutz

What projects are you working on currently? Xerxes, with Frank Miller. The Milo Manara Archives. A couple Neil Gaiman projects. Usagi Yojimbo, with Stan Sakai. A new Beanworld book, with Larry Marder. And more. Always more.

Kilowog's Challenge

Good look at the new Kilowog via upcoming paperback.

The Autism-Vaccine Hoax, in Comic Book Form

Daryl Cunningham made a comic book about the doctor behind the measles vaccine / autism controversy, called "The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield," highlighting the need for better scientific journalism as a salve for the public's scientific stupidity.

The Cape Uses Alan Moore's 1963 to Send a Message?

So what exactly is The Cape doing making an allusion to an obscure and failed comic imbued with an agenda to comment upon and even redeem the genre to which it belongs? How about making the same exact point about our current moment of superhero pop, bleak and cynical and fixated with reminding us (perhaps rightly) that you have to be deeply disturbed, perpetually pissed-off and wantonly lawless to be a costumed vigilante.

Bestselling comic book author Brian Michael Bendis teaches a course in writing graphic novels at PSU

Only at Portland State University (PSU) can aspiring graphic novelists create their own 22-page comic under the instruction of one of the most successful and acclaimed comic book writers in the country: Brian Michael Bendis.

Tom Ziuko Needs Your Help And He Needs It NOW!

My good friend Alan Kupperberg sent me this plea this morning. I strongly urge everyone to dig deep and help Tom out. Tom's credits go back a fair way, he's worked for virtually every major publisher and he's one of the finest colourists that has ever picked up the markers, pens, pencils and paints to grace the comic book industry.

EXCLUSIVE: Final Captain America Costume Design Revealed!