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The Daily LITG, 21st February 2019 – Happy Birthday, Chris Powell

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Today sees ComicsPRO kick off in Charlotte, North Carolina. The weather has stopped many attending, but Diamond's Chris Powell has made it through – and on his birthday as well.

Top five stories read yesterday:

1. Critical Role Announces Split From Geek & Sundry
2. Brian Bendis Has Given Superman a Brand New Super Power
3. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Glenn Howerton On Reddit Q's [Video]
4. This New Chinese Poster for Alita: Battle Angel is Gorgeous
5. Doctor Who's Mandip Gill: Cool with "Thasmin," Doctor-Yaz Shipping

Happening today:

• Barbican Comics Forum, Barbican, London. 5.30pm-7pm.
• Women in Comics, Marlborough Public Library, Massachusetts 6pm
• Cats Book Club: Cats in Graphic Novels, British Library, London 7pm, Paul Gravett leads an informal, interactive evening of discussion about cats in graphic novels, fuelled by two great examples: Sugar by Serge Baeken and Klaus by Richard Short.
• The Atomic Victory Squad #1 Signing, Comic Readers (South), Saskatchewa, Canada 5pm

Happy birthday to:

• Diamond Comic Distributor's VP – Retailer Services,  Chris Powell
• Former Marvel financial VP, Barry Kaplan
• Frank Brunner, horror writer/artist on Doctor Strange, Howard The Duck, Conan and head of character design for Fox animated X-Men series .
• Cartoonist Brian Douglas Ahern of Pigboys
• Joseph M. Monks, co-creator of Cry For Dawn.
• Cartoonist Mark Brewer 
• Douglas Franchin, artist on Halo and X-Men Blue
• Greg Carter, writer of Love Is In The Blood

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