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Monday Runaround – What If Everyone You Knew Were Hit By A Bus?

Published Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:29:31 -0500

Last updated Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:40:09 -0500

TwitterWatch: StephenWacker: @KurtBusiek I only hear your negative thoughts. I'll see you on Bleeding Cool tomorrow.

FeifferWatch: Fantagraphics will not be publishing the final two volumes of the Jules Feiffer Village Voice collection.

OstranderWatch: Would you still sign a contract if everyone you knew at the company were hit by a bus?

RussellWatch: P Craig Russel on creating Action Comics covers with Death, and Elric .

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RelaunchWatch: DC Comics (well, Bob Wayne) is holding a retailer conference in London this afternoon. I may try to pop along…

This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror 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.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.

Con Wars: MoCCA vs Stumptown | The Beat

In a rather surprising turn of events, New York's MoCCA Festival has announced their 2012 dates — and not only are they a change from previously announced dates, but it's the same weekend — April 27-28– as Stumptown Festival, the alt-comix festival held each year in Portland.

Planet of the Apes Rises to $77.4 Million Worldwide – ComingSoon.net

While the Smurfs were narrowly beat by Cowboys & Aliens in North America last weekend, they have now passed up the earnings of the Jon Favreau-directed action thriller. The Universal pic dropped 56.8% and to third for a second weekend of $15.7 million and a total of $67.4 million. It cost about $163 million to make.

‪Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show‬‏ – YouTube

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SRBissette.com – More on Jack Kirby/Marvel Comics: What Is Co-Creation?

Until and unless Marvel or Stan or somebody comes up with a Stan Lee sketch of the Marvel characters under dispute—one as fully realized as that the co-creator/writer of Hypernaut presented via FAX in 1992 to me, the co-creator and artist of Hypernaut—or so detailed a written description of all four characters that they would be drawn in the same way by more than one artist without significant deviation, I'm sorry, I just don't buy the argument that Jack Kirby doesn't have a legitimate co-creator claim, status, and moral, ethical, and legal claim to all that entails, which should also belong (by inheritance) to his rightful legal heirs.