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Sultry photos of a loungey Wonder Woman accompany Julie Ditrich's story on Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston, with an emphasis on Marston's pre-50 Shades interest in bondage, domination and having more than one wife—all interests which seeped into the pages of WONDER WOMAN.

The one and only Gary Panter, quintessential punk illustrator and the highly accoladed set designer of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, envisions a mind-bending sci-fi/punk fusion in a new release with Fantagraphics. Originating in 1983, this is first time Panter's DAL TOKYO will be collected into one epic volume, exhibiting the surreal cultural and temporal collision of a futuristic Mars that is terraformed by Texas and Japan. This one is going to be a real trip.

Secret Acre's wildly psychedlic cartoonist Theo Ellsworth preps the release of his newest work, THE UNDERSTANDING MONSTER - BOOK ONE, as it debuts in a couple weeks at SPX. A quest to explore the inner workings of an imaginary world sends the displaced Izadore, whose current form is that of a mouse, to regain his true form and full realize his true identity.

As we quietly put the white shoes and plastic martini glasses into one of those vacuum-sealed plastic bag thingies, some are facing the fall with renewed vigor and marketing campaigns, "gearing up" as it were. Let's take a look, shall we? And reminder: PLEASE SEND US COOL LINKS AND NEWS TIPS AND SO ON. We do use them all the time. That email—comicsbeat at gmail dot com.

Following his departure from writing Batwing for DC, cartoonist Judd Winick is back to writing AND drawing, as the above tweet shows. A few months ago, he told Newsarama he was writing and drawing an original graphic novel for kids, so that's probably the project he alludes to above.

Labor Day Weekend is a circled on the calendar of free-spirits of all shapes and species, as WorldCon, Burning Man, Dragon*Con and PAX are all on the schedule -- no matter what you like to dress up as, there's definitely a place to parade around and search for someone else dressed up for the ultimate fantasy.

The recent, latest online activism against an online idiot encouraged me to write something which I had been thinking about for awhile. The philosophical musing...

Excuse me, but I need to nerd/geek/dork/whatever out here for a minute because: They are making not one, not two, but three movies for...

While the finding of the check for $130 which National presented to Siegel and Shuster might have been a high point of this year's comic history, here's a strong contender for another: the actual audio of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings on comic books.

Apropos of absolutely nothing apart from it just made me laugh, cackle and cough, here are some preview pages for issue #4 of IDW's Popeye...

If you think all indie cartoonists ever do is brush their teeth and gaze at their drawing board, MariNaomi's diary this week at TCJ should disprove that as she travels around South America and goes to the Galapagos Islands!

By Todd Allen I found something unexpected in my in-box yesterday.  A digital comic called "Watson and Holmes."  That title might not always catch my...