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Boxing Day Runaround – From The Ashes

Published Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:54:53 -0600

WatchWatch: Some people seem to have noticed a story we ran yesterday. What fun!

PhoenixWatch: Another story we ran ages ago comes to fruition. The BBC report on the return of the British comic the DFC under the name The Phoenix.

"Comic novel writer, Kate Brown is serialising her story called The Lost Boy over 35 weeks in The Phoenix. She has been working on the story and artwork since the spring and has completed about a third of the work."

"The Oxford writer Philip Pullman wrote a story in the DFC comic and hopes to provide another for The Phoenix. The self-confessed comic book devotee said: "It'll be thrilling to watch The Phoenix to take to the skies and carry the particular kind of delight I felt as a boy to everyone who reads it.""

ArchieExecWatch: The New York Post reports some real comics industry gossip, about how Nancy Silberkleit, co-CEO of Archie Comics, may be jailed next week for breaking a court order, regarding her behaviour at the publisher.

"In the latest twist, the eccentric exec showed up at the office on Dec. 12 with a former Indianapolis Colt player, whom staffers believed was her bodyguard.

"Silberkleit allegedly yelled at the employees while the athlete loomed in the background.

"The 57-year-old former schoolteacher claims her co-CEO, Jon Goldwater, has orchestrated the entire mess to oust her."

PinkWatch: Riley objects to the pinkification and blueification of toys and how girls like superheroes. Thanks to Comics Alliance for pointing us to this – and for joining us in posting new content on Christmas Day. It's the new black.