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WOW, Creator Rights day on the Internet rolls on with what we might call Stan Lee's Hilary Rosen moment: an unforced error that cannot be rolled back. In an interview with Moviefone, of ALL PLACES, Stan is asked POINT BLANK about whether Jack Kirby should be credited on THE AVENGERS:

My—hopefully—last post on Before Watchmen and Alan Moore and the role of the comics creators.

The date was December 9th, 2011 when cartoonist and Center for Cartoon Studies professor Alec Longstreth shaved off his beard and shaggy do. A promise to himself in 2008, he decided to chart his progress through pictures of his hair and beard growth that would undoubtedly remind him daily of his commitment. Living in a small town with a beard as his shadow, Longstreth went from industrious Fellow of the school to an instructor of both summer workshops and graduate classes to the Acting Director (while James Sturm takes a much-needed sabbatical) . Even after all the excitement, he is still growing and evolving, deciding to learn watercolor on the side. Venture on to read more about the amazing cartoonist Alec Longstreth.

Stan Lee is chatting right now with Geoff Boucher at EPIX about his new movie With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story.

In celebration of Earth Day, The Beat gives a hoot-out to Woodsy Owl, public servant.

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?