To be fair, being an executive officer at Marbel must take up all of his drawing time. But man, when Marvel Comics announced that Peter David was going to
The Daily LITG, 14th March 2019 – Happy Birthday, Steve Bissette
Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. As Emerald City Comic Con begins in Seattle… happy birthday, Steve.
Top five stories read yesterday:
- That Mystery Marvel Comics Ad in Full
- Looks Like Iceman and Wolverine Are Going to Have to Have a Talk (Uncanny X-Men Winter's End Spoiler)
- Win the First Appearance of Mary Jane Watson as the Carnage Queen
- A Worrisome Future for Spider-Man and Mary Jane (Amazing Spider-Man #17 Spoilers)
- Stephen Amell Apologizes to Dave Bautista, Begs for His Life
Happening today:
- Emerald City Comic Con begins
- Making Mini-Comics, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana
- On Graphic Novels and Future Cities: A Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk, London Metropolitan University, London, 1.15-2pm.
And a happy birthday to:
- Stephen R. Bissette, Swamp Thing/1963 writer/artist, creator of Tyrant and Taboo
- Tom Batiuk, creator of Funky Winkerbean.
- Brian Walker, author of The Comics: The Complete Collection.
- Comic book inker Mike DeCarlo
- Felipe Echevarria, artist on the Psycho adaptation.
- Simon Fraser, co-creator of Nikolai Dante
- Steve Ellis, co-creator of High Moon
- Tom Derenick, artist on Red Hood, Convergence, Suicide Squad and Infinite Crisis