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Chip Kidd On Getting The Batman: Death By Design Gig

Chip Kidd’s Batman graphic novel Death By Design is scheduled for March. Here he talks at the Pivot: AIGA Design Conference about how he got the job… and what he has planned.

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Wednesday Runaround – Going To Bat Law School

StatWatch: Can Bleeding Cool really be the most influential comics blog in the industry? Blogwatcher Technorati thinks it is, and yesterday gave it a perfect 1000 mark for comics, something I can’t recall a precedent for. Technorati’s methodology is byzantine, …

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DC Relaunch: Batman Vs Chip Kidd

There have been many gay comics panels held at San Diego Comic Con this year, more than ever before it seems. I’d say they were breeding, but, you know… Anyway, at one of the panels held yesterday evening at San …

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That Gay Comics Panel At San Diego Comic Con

It’s that time of the year for the Gays In Comics panel at San Diego Comic Con – for their twenty fourth year. And that time of the year where people start asking about the sexuality of the panellists! Who …

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Saturday Trending Topics: Chip Kidd, Emma Watson, And Family Guy’s Alec Sulkin

Controversy and mystery ruled the day on Saturday, with Family Guy’s Alec Sulkin, DC Comics All Star Superman logo designer Chip Kidd, and the enigma of Emma Watson leading the way. Here are the things that interested readers at Bleeding …

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Why Chip Kidd Hates The All Star Superman Cover

A presentation by Chip Kidd on designing the All Star logos for DC Comics has found new prominence. He first talks about the process (12 minutes in) then on first seeing Frank Quitely’s cover art for issue 1. (19 minutes …

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The BBC Give Us Good Grief With The Story Of Peanuts

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 yesterday morning, Good Grief: The Story of Peanuts is now available via the iPlayer – and, in theory at least, it’s accessible worldwide. A 30-minute audio documentary on Charles Schulz’s world-beating strip and, to a …

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