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Sunday Runaround – Back From The Dead

Published Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:00:32 -0600

StripWatch: Ty Templeton gets Revival Rage.

ConWatch: The Charlotte Comicon is on in South Carolina today, from 10am to 4pm.

ConWatch2: Next year, Adelaide will host the new Australian Comic Con, OzCon.

Aspiring South Australian comic creators will be able to submit their work for professional review. Peter Spandrio of Adelaide Comics Centre in Rundle Mall predicted the convention would be a great success. He co-owns the comic-book store with Michael Baulderstone, who made headlines last year when – while dressed as Spider-Man – foiled a would-be thief in the shop, while other people dressed as Jedi Knights, the Flash and other superheroes looked on during the store's annual free comic-book dress-up day.

LibraryWatch: The JV Library in Westford Massachsetts is expanding its graphic novel line, with 650 titles in the Juvenile section, and is spending 8% of its buying budget on comics.

"It really is a great motivator for kids who are reluctant to read or have trouble reading," said Boutet. "If you think about it, there's a lot going on in a graphic novel. There are complex plots. There's a lot of art. There are a lot of visual cues."

PoirotWatch: Jaime Winstone, daughter of Ray Winstone and co-starring in this Christmas' David Suchet Poirot extracaganza, has revealed that as far as crime is concerned she's a "a graphic novel kind of girl".

Come on Ed Brubaker, cast her in Criminal.

CensorWatch: Maine local paper the Sun Journal comes out in favour of the decision by the Buckfield Junior-Senior High School to keep Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age on the school lobrary shelves.

American culture can be graphically sexual and explicitly foul and it's important that young people learn how to navigate that world in a responsible way.

The best possible way, of course, is for parents to steer their children through that process, but not every parent does and many children are left adrift.

So, the next-better place to learn is the school library, where a responsible adult can help educate children about their hormone-charged emerging feelings in a confusingly sensual culture.

It's not ideal. But, it's also not mandatory reading.

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