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Friday Runaround – Getting Loose

FurryWatch: Here's the cover to the third Grandville hardcover, Bete Noire, by Bryan Talbot. Out in December in the UK and January in the US.

EdinburghWatch: Comic bok writers Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, G Willow Wilson and Bryan Talbot are scheduled to appear at this year's Edinburgh Book Festival. Anyone fancy reporting back for Bleeding Cool?

CookWatch: Is this the kind of cookbook that would be banned by Chew?

Hound Comics' newest book entitled, The Big Fat Book of Luscious Chicken, is the first ever Live Action/Character Driven/Graphic Novel Cook Book! This one of a kind book centers around Luscious and real chicken based recipes. For those unaware, Luscious is the larger than life, chicken loving character from the hit comic book series, "Brimstone & the Borderhounds". The only man who could possibly author such a book is actually none other than the real life inspiration for the characters creation, Eddie Castillo. Rounding out the absolutely perfect quirkiness needed in creating this cook book; Castillo partnered with the Queen of quirky, artist Mina Sanwald (Hound Comics, Inc.).

LettersWatch: The pre-internet internet.

In the early 1960s, DC rival Marvel Comics — always quick to jump on an emerging fad — began to print the names of members of their fan club, the Merry Marvel Marching Society. I remember scouring each issue for any listings in my hometown. After eventually spotting someone from my hometown, I looked up the name in the phone book and called him. Which titles did he read? Did he have anything to sell or trade? Through this technique — and after convincing my mother to drive me all the way across town to close the deal — I managed to score a copy of The Amazing Spider-Man #4 (featuring the first appearance of the Sandman).

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