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:

1. That Mystery Marvel Comics Ad in Full
2. Looks Like Iceman and Wolverine Are Going to Have to Have a Talk (Uncanny X-Men Winter's End Spoiler)
3. Win the First Appearance of Mary Jane Watson as the Carnage Queen
4. A Worrisome Future for Spider-Man and Mary Jane (Amazing Spider-Man #17 Spoilers)
5. 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

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.