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Wednesday Runaround – Is Assange Our Ozymandias?
JapanWatch1: The Tokyo Comics Code, restricting certain sexual material in comics to under-18s, has passed into legislation, and will come into effect in April for self regulation, and July for state restrictions.
JapanWatch2: A number of Japanese digital publishers, including the Digital Comic Association, are condeming Apple for continuing to approve Apps from China that pirate Japanese content.
AssangeWatch: Rolling Stone Italy have named Julian Assange of Wikileaks as their Rockstar Of The Year, stating that his plan was "worthy of the best Marvel comics". However the image on on the front cover looks a little more like Watchmen…
ListWatch: The Village Voice on the best comics of the year.
No one, however, can transform the workaday into existentially bleak page-turners like Chris Ware. His tales of myopic relationships and enervated dreams shimmer with eloquent graphics, precisely tuned dialogue, and perfect-pitch body language. In Lint, Acme Novelty Library Vol. 20 (Drawn & Quarterly, 72 pp., $23.95), we see parents' faces slowly come into focus through their baby's eyes, watch the young Jordan Lint grow into an adult-scaled world, then follow his punctured ambitions and bumptious middle-aged affairs to the moment when everything contracts back down to that first dot of consciousness. Astonishing.
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Jezebel's Favorite Female Comic Creators Of 2010
Scott has a wonderful style that both fits the "acceptable mainstream" we see in most big two comics, but is simultaneously much more understanding and sensitive to the appearance of the characters she renders – and most especially the women, and I appreciate the hell out of it.
The main impulse was to "find something that lights a fire" inside of him as a filmmaker and gives him a chance to "blow people away, which is easier to do with a project that isn't loaded with built-in expectations."
YouTube – Black Hole – Rupert Sanders
Snow White director Rupert Sanders' short film based on Charles Burns' BLACK HOLE.
Tuesday night tumbler viral.
The All-New Spider-Armor | Spider-Man | Comic News | News | Marvel.com
Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Spider-Man's all new Spider-Armor, debuting in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #656, from the superstar creative team of Dan Slott and Marcos Martin. Peter Parker may have hit the Big Time, but that hasn't stopped new villains from terrorizing Manhattan. What kind of foe would prompt Spider-Man to suit up in this high-powered costume? Find out in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #656!
[Headline you'll see a lot of today] Black Widow, Green Lantern Split
After over 2 years of marriage, the going average in Hollywood these days, Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers, Iron Man 2) and Ryan Reynolds (Green Lantern) have decided to call an end to their marital vows. the former couple issued a statement yesterday citing the seperation comes "after long and careful consideration."