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Tuesday Runaround – A Question Of Literacy

Published Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:39:20 -0500

Last updated Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:06:52 -0500

SignWatch: Ron Marz to sign Voodoo #1 at Midtown Comics Downtown on Wednesday, September 28th from 6 to 7pm.

FancyThatWatch: John Rood: "To be clear – DC is not a market-share-chaser. If we were, we would not be creating a quality lasting direction across a controlled number of titles. We would instead be flooding the market with over 200 titles a month, changing your prices with abandon, killing off a character every quarter or so, and/or randomly announcing decimal-pointed event-ish thingies. We haven't."

December 1011 solicitations:

THE UNWRITTEN #32
Written by MIKE CAREY • Art by PETER GROSS and M.K. PERKER • Cover by YUKO SHIMIZU
On sale DECEMBER 14 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • MATURE READERS
Tom's battle against the cabal continues, with Glitterspar as the ultimate sanction. But Tom discovers that letting storybook magic into your world is playing with fire – and ice.

THE UNWRITTEN #32.5
Written by MIKE CAREY
Art by PETER GROSS and DEAN ORMSTON
Cover by YUKO SHIMIZU
On sale DECEMBER 28 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US MATURE READERS
In ancient Mesopotamia, just after the Flood that almost ended the world, the hero-king Gilgamesh embarks on a monster-hunt – but the biggest monster may be walking at his side. A time-lost legend that casts unexpected light on the most ruthless of Tom's enemies: the man known as Pullman.

StripWatch: Death Comes To The Archbishop by Martin Hand.

IlliteracyWatch: The Canberra Times sees danger in comics.

Parents should be alert, if not alarmed, the next time their child picks up a comic book.

The latest OECD report into education shows reading is on the decline amongst students across the developed world, and the enjoyment of comic books over fiction and non-fiction works is generally associated with a low level of reading performance. Poor reading performance then feeds into weaker academic results.

Here's what the OECD report actually says;

Reading comic books is generally associated with a low level of reading performance. This could well be because

weaker readers find comic books more accessible

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Batman and Robin Movie May Be Next from DC Comics' New 52 – MovieWeb.com

No one in the Bat camp is talking at this point. And it's all conjecture until the powers that be reveal their secret plans for keeping the Batman franchise afloat. Today, however, we did get a hint at the direction Bruce Wayne's cinematic side may take after The Dark Knight Rises plays out at theaters.

Tenth Letter of the Alphabet: Street Scene: Jack Kirby's Birthplace

Jack Kirby's father, Ben, signed his World War I draft card on<br /> June 5, 1917; an image of the card was found at Ancestry.com.<br /> The address is quite legible. On August 28, 1917 Jack was born.<br /> Martin Bartolomeo wrote about Jack's childhood neighborhood<br /> in the Jack Kirby Collector, number 53, on pages four and five.

Todd's Blog » Blog Archive » How To: Charlton's Lettering Guide

Speedball B-6 is what many letterers were using when I started at DC, but for regular balloon lettering they usually filed down the sides of the point to make a thinner line, a tricky job that I never really mastered.

ICv2 – 'Ziggy' Creator Tom Wilson Dies at 80