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What's better than getting free candy on Halloween? Free comics! I offer some crazy ideas for retailers and lovers of comics, using Halloween as the inciting incident to tell a great story about marketing comics!

Remember your first time? Wish you had taken pictures? Well, special correspondent J. Parker Adair certainly remembers his first time, and he took lots of pictures!

Some personal thoughts on why you should considering honoring Dylan Williams' memory by pushing the Sparkplug Comic Books' Indie Go Go Fundraiser OVER THE TOP

This week's round up of comics and nerdy movie related stuff, including The Avengers, semi-obscure manga adaptations, Sin City, The Dark Knight and more!

You've always wanted to see Darkseid painted in the style of Francis Bacon, haven't you? Of course you have. It's part of the latest "The Line It Is Drawn" mashup contest at Comics Should Be Good, and there is much more of that ilk, like Black Canary Scream and so on.

When you get a flyer for a $395 scholarly compendium on comics, you think it must be some kind of scam. Then you see it was edited by Bart H. Beaty and Stephen Weiner and you decide you want it badly.

In my last post, we looked at the attorney-client privilege question addressed by yesterday's Ninth Circuit ruling in favor of DC. But does a clear victory for DC in a this rather technical legal issue signal a greater loss for the Siegel and Shuster heirs?

Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat has been picked by Time Magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people—along with folks like Lionel Messi, Rihanna and Pippa, but you get the picture. Ferzat made headlines when he was brutally beaten and his hands broken by the Bashar Assad regime he was criticizing—but he's still drawing, as new Pulitzer winner Matt Wuerker writes in the tribute:

Marvel/DC comic book artist Dave DeVries is being featured on CBS This Morning tomorrow at 8:45 am E.D.T. for his "The Monster Engine" work. If you're not familiar with this project, it's a thought provoking series of illustrations that takes children's drawings of monsters and paints them in a fully detailed fantasy art style. It's been spun off into books, gallery shows and more.

"Seth Kushner (The Brooklynites) has taken his skills as a photographer and his passion for comic books and turned them into two unique projects."

POLITICO's Matt Wuerker has wonthis year's Pulitzer Prize for cartooning, an award presented for "his consistently fresh, funny cartoons, especially memorable for lampooning the partisan conflict that engulfed Washington."

Via Omg Dj Judy and Agent M. Did she say yes? Unknown.