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§ Big big ups to Shannon O'Leary and Pam Auditore for their WonderCon coverage! You guys are THE BEST. § Here is that big...

First off, thanks to Nicholas Eskey for his WonderCon coverage this weekend. He did a smashing job covering some diverse panels, including Con Talk-Back...

I was working on a long article this week so this all piled up, but I know it's the weekend and everyone has nothing...

§ Mark Evanier reports that original Airboy artist Fred Kida, a nominee for this year's Eisner Hall of Fame, has passed away at 93.

§ Maine cartoonist Jeff Pert died suddenly at age 53. Pert was known for his local humor, and his cartoon books were a staple...

§ Hasn't Little Nemo been in the public domain for a while? It's surprising that everyone is doing Little Nemo tributes now, including IDW and Locust Moon comics. Zainab Akhtar previews the Dream Another Dream, the Locust Moon offering and the page above by Jeremy Bastien is but one of several gobsmacking pages already seen. YOW.

§ Zen Pencils is a website where a cartoonist named Gavin Aung Than takes famous speeches written by other folks and turns them into comics. It was the subject of a famous beatdown by Abhay Khosla who tagged it as vapid pap that stole other people's thoughts, and some other folks think it's just fine and signed it to a book deal. Perhaps Than was stung by some of the haters because he just penned his first ORIGINAL cartoon, called "The Artist-Troll War" and it is a bit...on the nose. It is in four parts;

§ Words like "TV" and "Broadcast" are long ago relics as streaming from many sources takes over the sitting in front of a screen time. And many comics properties are getting a second (or first) life on these new platforms. F'rinstance, Powers, the Brian Michael Bendis/Michael Avon Oeming series that was made into a pilot then passed on by the FX network, is getting revived as a streaming series for Playstaton. The show will go straight to series for 10 episodes. The cast and crew of the previous pilot has been scrubbed, with Charlie Huston on board to write, with Michael Dinner (director of everything from The Wonder Years to Masters of Sex) to direct. According to THR, Huston and Bendis will be the showrunners—it's nice to see Bendis getting a good title on this. Circle of Confusion (which also reps The Walking Dead) is among the exec producers.

§ Here's a sad story making the rounds: a young lad of nine named Grayson went to school wearing his beloved My Little Pony...

Let's start out this late St. Patricks Day roundup with Shaenon Garrity on two webcomics that adapt Irish Mythology:

§ Alex Behr has an excellent interview with Chris Ware at Salon where he talks about his daughter's drawing ability, the bully that apologized...

I bet you thought the Michael George murder case was over. The former comics shop owner was tried twice for killing his wife in 1990, and convicted in 2011 after years of legal proceedings. But one little shard of the past may have just been revealed: a dusty bullet found behind a water heater in an unused room in the commercial space that was the murder scene back in '90. Creepy, isn't it?