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Art comix publisher PictureBox has announced a new line: Ten Cent Manga, which will be curated by manga exert Ryan Holmberg (you can read some of his insightful manga writing at The Comics Journal.) We're told the line will include "famous titles by superstars, as well as single-artist volumes and anthologies of comics by forgotten geniuses."

Research for Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story has dug up a lot of long-forgotten dirt, but here's a particularly sad one:Marvel selling art by Romita, Sinott, Kane, Sal Buscema and more to a Winnipeg art gallery for $1000:

And oh how yore they are. Alan Light, founder of The Buyer's Guide/Comics Buyer's Guide is one of the most organized flickr users we've ever encountered and he has a couple of sets from the history of TBG/CBG that those reminiscing about the now cancelled publication might enjoy.

In a brief, statement, publisher F+W announced the closing of CBG, the Comics Buyer's Guide today. The magazine's 42 year run will end with issue #1699, one shy of the farewell #1700 that the collectors it appealed to would have liked. The cause of death was the usual suspects:

Via Midtown Comics, A recent letter from Steve Ditko. A recent letter from Steve Ditko to one of our customers. He asked Steve what he...

Quite a few remembrances of underground pioneer Spain Rodriguez, including this round-up of reactions from his peers at TCJ. Here's Gary Panter's imagined history: SPAIN...

I am very sad to report that an email has been sent by Ron Turner: It is with great sadness that I inform you of...

Via Millarworld -- in case you have been sleeping and missed Grant Morrison's thoughts on Alan Moore. We don't know the credits for this, but it's pretty awesome.

Johanna Draper Carlson finds a SF book from 24 years ago that predicted the kind of soul-stealing succubus that many fear wit a narrative involving a SF convention:

by Laura Sneddon--Over the last few weeks, my good friend Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been writing a series of articles about Alan Moore and Superfolks, which became an edgeways look at the long running friction between Moore and fellow writer, Grant Morrison. While Moore has previously spoken out about his thoughts on Morrison in various interviews, Morrison has generally kept quiet on the issue. There have been occasional barbs of course, and plenty of praise, but very little on the actual facts of the matter.

If you're a digital hoarder like The Beat you may wake up one day and realize you have some bookmark files that go back 10 years or more. And then you may poke around and you may find something like. Bradley's Almanac - comic book links which was last updated more than nine years ago.

You may remember Joe Caramagna dropping numerous hints over the past few weeks that he had a secret project in the works, a comic he would...