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The Lightning Round

December 19th, 2007
Author Chris Mautner

by Marisa Acocella Marchetto

Cancer Vixen creator Marisa Acocella Marchetto is blogging about cancer for healthcentral.com. (Hat tip)

– The New York Times gives some love to New York’s The Comic Book Club. Congrats on your one-year anniversary, guys!

– Writer Brian Wood (DMZ, Northlanders) has moved his forum from Ning to a new location. Adjust your bookmarks!

– Lynda Barry has a MySpace page dedicated to her cartooning workshop.

– Douglas Wolk has listed his favorite comics of the year.

– Harvey Pekar and Nick Bertozzi did a comic on Ohio and the upcoming presidential election.

Newsday notices that “Superwoman” is cropping up in a lot of song lyrics, from Usher and Mary J. Blige’s Shakedown to, oddly enough, Alicia Keyes’ Superwoman. What does it all mean? Beats me.

– Remember the Kwik-E-Mart/7-Eleven promo from earlier this year? Now 20th Century Fox is “Simpsonizing” various cities to help promote the release of the movie on DVD.

Casting rumors for the Spider-Man musical are circulating.

– The Chicago Tribune gets up close and personal with the WGA picket lines, including Marc Guggenheim.

Merry Kissmas.

– Film.com picks three indie comics they’d like to see turned into films.

– Your holiday link of the day: 30 years of Lucasfilm Christmas cards.

Compiled by Chris Mautner, Kevin Melrose and JK Parkin.

 
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