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Tuesday Runaround – Charles Soule Is Up To Something…

A private triptych Avengers commission by Sean Gordon Murphy.

Charles Soule is up to something… an eighth book a month?

Project I've been working on for a year or more was just greenlit. Amazing property – an honor to work on it.

— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) August 6, 2013

Greg Ruth's book The Lost Boy is available to order.

Cullen Bunn may have a comic book artist character in Venom brewing….

I noticed in Venom #36 that Andi had a portfolio under her arm. Does it mean that she's an artist? Do you plan to expand on that in the series?

Anonymous

Steve Niles almost wrote a Batman project with Neal Adams. And Howard Chaykin's upcoming Shadow series from Dynamite is set in the continuity as a prequel to his 1986 mini-series.

Bleeding Cool favourite Thunder Brother: Soap Division by Paul Brainey gets a sixth issue, and he's stopping his regular web update to support the print edition.

The fuss about Alison Bechdel's Fun Home being included on a freshman reading list continues. Front Page Mag, whose tagline is "Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out" runs it in a very calm and measured fashion.

The state-funded College of Charleston, located in Charleston, South Carolina, has assigned all its incoming freshmen to read "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel, a graphic novel which contains pictorial images of lesbian sex, commentary on masturbation, and accounts of pedophilia. In total, the College has spent $39,000 for the distribution of this book to freshmen and will pay another $13,000 for a speech by the author this fall. Participation in the summer reading program is mandatory.

Yup, they didn't read it either. But here's comment from a student at the college on the Campus Reform site;

Yet another article filled with false information intended to cause an outcry of some sort. I attend this school and no book given to freshmen is a "mandatory" read. I received a book my freshman year and did I read it? Yes. Was I forced to read it? No. Was it incorporated into my classes? We had an optional discussion about it in a few of them, but I never had to write a paper on it. If anything, this book was chosen for a reason and I trust CofC on their decision, as should anyone else that trusts them with their education. You are here to learn to think for

Manga finds a new audience in Hindi.

The Japan Foundation Delhi is all set to launch a Manga comic book, Yunagi no machi Sakura no Kuni, on Tuesday. The comics are translated into Hindi by Tomoko Kikuchi.

The book is a unification of two stories – Yunagi no machi (Nirav sandhya ka shahar) and other being Sakura no Kuni (Sakura ka desh). The story is about a family of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima where the author based the characters on people who were in Hiroshima at the time.

The book launch will be followed by an exhibition of comic installations of the book starting Aug 7. The exhibition that's titled Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms will go on till Aug 31.

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