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Thursday Runaround – Women, Gods And Paul Gravett

GenderWatch: Gendercrunching for the week of August 8th. DC had 11.6% female creators, while Marvel had 13.6% female creators… this is the second week in a row that Marvel's had a higher total, which is just flat-out bizarre for them.

BukkakeWatch: Thor.

LibraryWatch: Paul Gravett is presenting a free illustrated talk on Fifites comics from Dan Dare to Asterix at Wokingham Library on Thurs, September the 8th at 7pm. Places must be booked.

StoreWatch: Velocity Comics of Richmond gets a glossy profile;

The next five years of digital publishing "will be good for my business." His reasoning is this: the more available comics are to the public, the more likely they are going to venture into Velocity Comics. With the financial and critical success of comic characters over the last several years, I wonder precisely how cinematic releases affect his business. For instance, I ask him did the release of the film Captain America: The First Avenger cause a direct increase in sales of Captain America comics? He smirks and shakes his head.

"Not even a little bit."

SilhouetteWatch: What's the point of silhouette teasers from Marvel if they don't silhouette the bit they are meant to? Peter David writes;

Well, there goes the shock ending of X-Factor #230: the reveal of the return of Havok. The cover image was shown and it's being discussed all over the net.

Ah well. Maybe it'll get more people ordering the book ahead of time instead of them complaining that they can't find it in the stores. Besides which, I still have a few tricks up my sleeve when it comes to #230…not to mention #227, the ending of which I confidently predict will receive the WTF!? Award of 2011. What's that? You say there isn't a WTF!? award? Well, they're just gonnna have to go invent one.

Bleeding Cool will be adding a WTF Award to next year's Bleeding Cool Awards at C2E2. Peter may have some stiff competitioon though, has he read this week's Teen Titans?

CreatorWatch: Aaron Lopresti gets profiled by the Beaverton Valley Times;

"But it's like anything else," he shrugs. "After you've been doing it for 20 years, it loses some of its appeal."

He pauses again, for just a second.

"You have to remind yourself, you're drawing comic books," he says. "You're not saving the world."

MusicWatch: Eddie Argos of Art Brut talks comics. And his comic. To the San Fran Examiner.

Since Jamie McKelvie, an artist for the competing Marvel, did the cover for Art Brut's campy new album "Brilliant! Tragic!" Argos recently visited Marvel headquarters as well. "Jamie's trying to get me to switch sides, and he's almost convinced me," he says.

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