John Romita Jr was one of Marvel's longest-standing comic book creators, son of John Romita Sr, and working on all of Marvel's biggest characters.
The Daily LITG, 20th November 2019 – Happy Birthday Jill Thompson
Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Yesterday we ran a piece about missing Incredible Hulk issues that had plagued some Marvel Unlimited readers for the last couple of weeks.
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— gaymma 🖇️ (@hulkies) November 19, 2019
An hour after posting on Bleeding Cool, it was no longer an issue… that's an Incredible Rich Twitch.
The 10 most-read stories yesterday
- Comic Store In Your Future, All-Hail New Overlord of Marvel Comics Kevin Feige
- "Batman": Christian Bale Turned Down Fourth Film Because of Nolan
- "Dead By Daylight" Shows Off New Killer With The Oni
- Gossip: Is Chip Zdarsky Writing a New Namor The Sub Mariner X-Men Comic?
- Alan Moore On His "Grouchiness" and "Cantankerousness"
- Have a Load of Hulk Issues Disappeared From Marvel Unlimited For You?
- Freddie Mercury Figures Gets Preorder and You Can't Stop Him Now
- Rob Liefeld's Struggle With Clothing Policies in Saudi Arabia
- Marvel Comics February 2020 Solicitations – Force Works to Dark Agnes, Darth Vader to Wolverine, Frankensteined
- Batman and Alfred Have Dinner Together in Batman #83 [Preview]
One year ago…
- Three Nukes Crashed the Fallout 76 Server in Spectacular Fashion
- Image Comics Issues Mandatory Recall Of Dead Rabbit #1 and #2… Over Trademark?
- 'Dune': Timothée Chalamet Doesn't Know What Fear Is
- Ezra Miller Had "Serious Meltdown" About THAT 'Fantastic Beasts' Spoiler
- DC Comics Cancels Dan DiDio and Kenneth Rocafort's Sideways
Happening today…
- Book launch and signing with Mark Stafford and David Hine for Bad, Bad Place, The Cartoon Museum, 63 Wells Street, London, 6-8pm.
- Captain America #16 signing with Robert Quinn, Collector's Paradise – NoHo, North Hollywood, California, 5-7pm.
- Denys Cowan & Bill Sienkiewicz signing at Neal Adams Crusty Bunkers, Los Angeles, California, 5-8pm.
- Brandon Thomas signing Excellence, Yesteryear Comics, San Diego, California, 9am-Noon.
- Ryan Kincaid signing exclusive Joker cover, Comics Elite, Indianapolis, Indiana, noon-9pm.
- Canto signing with David Booher, The Comic Bug, Manhattan Beach, LA, 5-8pm.
- Lynda Barry + Chris Ware in Conversation, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, Montréal, QC, 7-10pm.
And a happy birthday to…
- Jill Thompson, creator of Scary Godmother and Sandman artist.
- Birds Of Prey artist Ed Benes
- Rian Hughes, comics creator and designer, of Dare, I Am A Number and Logo A Gogo.
- Sandman Mystery Theatre writer, Guy Davis.
- Dave Schreiner, creator of Snarf.
- Creator of Hopster's Tracks and artist on Powerpuff Girls, Simpsons, Flintstones, Ren & Stimpy, Wolf & Red and Peanuts comics, Stephanie Gladden.
- Mahmud Asrar, Dynamo 5, Superman, Supergirl and upcoming Conan artist.
- Captain America, Ruse and Carnage artist, Mike Perkins
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About Rich Johnston
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.
