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Monday Morning Runaround – Phillipines, Japan, Antarctica

And over fifty years since it was first serialized in the comic magazine Pilipino Komiks, the Francisco V. Coching's classic comic El Indio has been painstakingly restored from newsprint copies and collected into a new graphic novel with new material and aforeword by Coching's widow, with Leinel Francis Yu quoted as saying

One only needs to study Coching's work in El Indio to fully grasp realistic yet dynamic figure drawing and layout.

The book is intended to launch a recollection and reappraisal of Filipino comic book history.

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Japanese cartoonist Yoshito Usui funeral attracted over three thousand of fans yesterday in Japan today. Creator of the schoolboy character Crayon Shin-chan, Usui died while hiking in September, aged 51.

Central Tokyo's Aoyama Funeral Hall,  was full of pictures, stuffed dolls, comic books and videos of Usui's work, decorated with flowers.

His bruised body was found more than a week later but police said there was no suggestion his death was a suicide.
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Fourth grade students have been understanding what it means to be a hero – and are putting together their own comic books to explore the idea.

* Students are connecting their love of comics with the real world, chosing to become super heroes in their own communities and understanding the motivation driving the characters they read about.
* Students see comics as a legitimate source of Christmas cheer. That is to say, the students value comics so much, they feel comics (handmade or commercially printed) are a valuable Christmas gift.

While other students are taking comic books and finding themes that relate to other examples of English literature.

Vanessa chose a selection from the Smithsonian collection. She saw connections between Will Eisner's "Izzy the Cockroach" and Kafka's Metamorphosis, and not just because the two feature bugs as main characters. Gregor and Jacob also have many similarities in how they deal with life's angsts. I was very impressed.

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Greensboro News & Record tries to restore the reputation of Whiteout after the movie.

Don't judge this great read by the movie. Pick the book up and give it a try.

Go on, now do The Spirit.

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