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Mark Waid's DAREDEVIL seems to be filling the "superhero comic for people who don't like superheroes" slot with topnotch stories and art. Chris Samnee (THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER) is joining the book as a part-time artist in #12, in which busy Matt Murdock makes time for a lady pal, Kirsten McDuffie, who is actually hoping to make time to discover his secret identity.

Or perhaps that should be VERY nice art. A new story by Italian great Lorenzo Mattotti, written by Claudio Piersanti in Corriere della Sera. Via Meathaus

Sparkplug has a complete selection. Ditko didn't stop drawing when he left Spider-Man, you know!

On the "authority" scale, the idea of New Yorker cover editor Françoise Mouly launching a blog about New Yorker covers and art would rank....very high. And so Blown Covers, which she describes as a personal blog. Although it's unafiliated with the New Yorker, she's holding weekly themed New Yorker cover contests and is "always on the lookout for good ideas and great artists." So yeah, this is an audition.

Is the world ready for a new graphic novel from outsider musician/artist Daniel Johnston? Probably. Johnston, whose long career as a very eccentric musician was the subject of the 2006 documentary THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON, is also an avid comics reader, and this is his first GN. It comes complete with added soundtrack and app for the 360º experience. For those not familiar, Johnston is somewhere north of Wild Man Fischer and south of They Might be Giants and early Beck.

Has anything ever felt more natural? Buy the T-shirt right here. No trademark infringement going on. Buy with confidence.

LA-based artist Alex Gross collects old portrait cards of average people and paints them over with characters from our pop culture heritage.

One of the new books announced at the Image Expo, CHIN MUSIC, by Steve Niles and Tony Harris, via.

Pedro Delgado and Brendan Tobin are at it again, for the fifth year in a row. Can you afford not to partake in MARCH MODOK MADNESS? They are accepting submissions now!

The industry has been asking itself some hard questions recently, and my tweets and email are full of people being depressed about things being so bad. As I always say, the comics industry can be horrid, but comics themselves are eternal. And you know what, when you get down to it the industry isn't THAT bad either. There are some good eggs out there.

Artist Gabriel Hardman has tweeted a peek at a new project which Corinna Bechko is writing. The duo is currently teaming up on some...

Ben Towle's baseball sketches remind us that pitchers and catchers have already reported.