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Friday Runaround – What Comics Would You Buy For $3000?

Published Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:50:26 -0600

romania RomaniaWatch: In 2004, 15 year old Alida Tomiuc wrote and drew a graphic novel (all of three pages) about the Romanian Revolution based on the stories of her parents, set in 1989, events to which she was an unborn participant. Her father remembers and uploads the project to the Radio Free Europe site.

LibraryWatch: The Belvidere Free Public Library has been awarded a $3,000 grant for a graphic novel collection, made available through the Florence Taylor Tischler and Nathaniel Tischler Memorial Fund, one of fourteen smaller libraries to receive the funding.

DigitalWatch: Top Cow expands their digital foray by making books available through Wowio.com, the early revenue-model digital comics reader that has been through hard times. Possibly the best news Wowio has had in a long while. As an imprint, Top Cow do seem to be the most aggressive online right now…

AvatarWatch: Brendon Connelly of /Film looks to future Avatar comics from James Cameron. I'm wondering if the owner of this site would have something to say about that…

WossyWatch: UK broadcaster Jonathan Ross is reported as saying in The Sun;

I've just started writing a comic book and am about to sell the film rights to a major studio. That's what I've wanted to do since I was a kid – write comics.

That'll be this comic folks!

MillarWatch: The second volume of Kick Ass has a working title of Balls To The Wall.

CrimeWatch: Twenty-year-old Jevon Sawyer has been found guilty of assault with intent to rob while armed. He gravely injured David Pirkola, owner of comic book store Appiritions Comics And Books in Kentwood, by shooting him during a 2008 robbery attempt.

After a gun was pulled, the fifty-eight year old Pirkola swing a phone book at Sawyer, struggled with him and was shot. After almost bleeding to death, Pirkola recovered and still runs his comic book store, though he remains injured.

He was found not guilty of assault with intent to murder, but also guilty of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, carrying a concealed weapon and using a firearm in the commission of a felony. The sentence, expected to be life, will be announced in January.

ProfessorWatch: A former University of Western Ontario mathematics professor, Dr. Eddy Smet, has donated his comic book collection to the University, 10,000 strong, beleieved to be the biggest such donation in Canada. The collection was assessed and valued at around $100,000 by Gord Mood, who owns the comic store LA Mood. Smet hopes the work will prove valuable in pop culture, visual arts and women's studies. And of course it'll all be tax deductable…

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