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The Daily LITG, January 11th 2020, Happy Birthday Sam Kieth

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The 10 most-read stories yesterday

1. The New DC Timeline To Begin in Wonder Woman #750 With Scott Snyder and Bryan Hitch
2. "The Orville" Creator Seth MacFarlane Signs with NBCU Content Studios
3. The Long Read: Doomsday Clock is Canon and In Continuity
4. 2019 Wolverine's Weiner X-Pick of the Year: Horniest X-Men Comic
5. Why DC Comics Has Been Cancelling So Many Collections – and Taking Numbers Off the Spines
6. X-Men #7 Jumps From $3.99 to $4.99
7. Death Metal – The Sequel To Dark Nights: Metal, From Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo
8. Doomsday Clock Will Not Completely Line Up With The DC Comics Timeline – Official
9. Darth Vader Haunted by Images of the Star Wars Prequels in New Darth Vader #1 [Preview]
10. Transformers G1 Astrotrain Reissue Hitting Walmarts Now

One year ago…

1. Mark Hamill Teases 'Star Wars: Episode IX' "Title"
2. Separated At Birth: Francesco Mattina and… Everyone?
3. 15 Revealed DC Comics Covers by Sean Murphy, Dave Johnson, Stjepan Sejic and More
4. The Death of James Bond, or at Least One of Him, in League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest Book Four
5. LATE: Doomsday Clock #9 Slips Into February

And the 100 most-read stories of 2019 right here.

Happening today…

• WIP (Work In Progress Comics), kick things off around midday with a short drawing exercise to get our creative juices flowing, followed by a roundtable show-and-tell where those who want to can share their work and give a progress update or seek any advice they're after. Also, expect lots of general chat and gossip and comics talk. Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London, 11.30am-3.30pm
• Long Beach Comic Expo,  Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, Long Beach, CA until tomorrow.
• Viet Thanh Nguyen & Ellison Nguyen signing at Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Washington 2-4pm.
• Image Founders Signing – Image Comics President Todd McFarlane (Spawn), Vice President Jim Valentino (ShadowHawk), Chief Operating Officer Robert Kirkman (Oblivion Song, The Walking Dead), Chief Financial Officer Erik Larsen (Savage Dragon), Marc Silvestri (X-Men, Witchblade), and Chief Creative Officer & Publisher Eric Stephenson (Nowhere Men) at I Like Comics, Vancouver, Washington to meet with fans and sign comics, 11am-2pm.
• BOWIE In-Store Signing with Steve Horton, TATE'S Comics + Toys + Videos + More, Lauderhill, Florida 4-6pm.
• J&K Book Launch Party w/ John Pham, Secret Headquarters, Los Angeles, California 7-9pm.
• Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination signing at The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, California 7.30-9pm.
• Emmets Story signing at Scout Comics, Fort Myers, Florida 1-6pm.
• Dan Slott signing Iron Man 2020 #1, JHU Comic Books, New York, 3-5pm.
• Marvels X #1 Jim Krueger signing at Comics Factory, Pasadena, California, 3-5pm.

And a happy birthday to…

• Sam Kieth, creator of Maxx, co-creator of Sandman.
• Miyako Matsuda Graham, manga artist and translator
• Trevor Tamlin, comics letterer
• Bob Harras, EIC of DC Comics
• Terry Beatty, artist of Batman, Ms Tree, Action Comics, Guy Gardner, Elfquest
• Adi Granov, Iron Man artist
• Eric Kim, artist for UDON
• Anton Kawasaki, DC Collected Editions editor
• Nicola Peruzzi, Panini Comics editor.
• Scott Cohn, artist on Army Of Darkness, TMNT, Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

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