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Cartoonist Matt Bors sent along this video of his acceptance speech for the Herblock Award, which gets into some truths about the cartoonist's life along the way.

Two bits of Jeffrey Brown-related news!

Classics Illustrated, the comics Cliff Notes series that has been around in various iterations for over 60 years, making the line a classic in and of itself—they've just gone digital with ebook publisher Trajectory. Over 120 titles will be launched from both iTunes and the iBook store, selling for $4.99 each. These look to be the '50s original Classics Illustrated, celebrated in rhyme and song.

While THE AVENGERS has been hailed as a feel-good ball of action-comedy that kicks off the summer with smiles and cheers, in one regard it is a bit unsettling. You see, it is yet another in a long, long line of movies that has trashed Manhattan real estate in a willy-nilly fashion. For about a hot minute after 9/11, destroying Manhattan in entertainment was considered crass—who needed fakery, when you had the real thing?—however, it soon came into vogue again as a symbol of the unsettled post 9/11 era.

A round up of the latest comics and nerd related movie and television news featuring tidbits about Dredd, The Walking Dead, and a possible Antman teaser....

Being mostly reports on past and future comics shows, since we are deep into con season.

Just giving a little introductory hello and some insight into the mind of a postgrad comic enthusiast.

Dynamite has passed over an extended preview of their newest series, THE SPIDER, where a new modern-day masked hero ruthlessly seeks to uproot a destroyed Manhattan.

Alien invasions are nothing new, but when Neil Gaiman is attached, it's definitely something to keep an eye out for. Threadless and The CBLDF team up to offer a chance to cement yourself in T-shirt history by designing a shirt for THE DAY THE SAUCERS CAME.

We mentioned this in our official MoCCA report for Publishers Weekly, but if there is one must-read this week, it's The Cartoon Crier from The Center for Cartoon Studies. Distributed as a lovely free paper at MoCCA, you can now read it in Issu form at the link. But we must warn you. DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE NOT SAD. Because it will make you sad.

BY JEN VAUGHN - Fantagraphics Books isn't necessarily THE MAN of the comics world but since I've only ever self-published my own comics, MoCCA 2012 was my first two days on the job as a staff member of the independent comics publisher. There are more than a few differences between the two experiences. Read on!

A brief apology for posting this but the Star Trek nerd in me could NOT help myself. Many a weekend was spent in my youth attending the Star Trek conventions with my mom at the Plaza hotel in Las Vegas, the highlight of course was meeting Brent Spiner and Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Commanders Data and Worf).