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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.

We present the first-time experience of a long-time comics fan, as he experiences C2E2 in Chicago. (Be Gentle.)

For the last few weeks an anonymous (but knowledgable) blogger has been picking apart each week's New Yorker cartoons for their humor and artwork content at the tumblr Sh*t My New Yorker. Delivering insightful analyses of punchlines and surprise, the identity of the blogger was much speculated upon in certain circles. Well, the blogger stands revealed:

Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass is a new scholarly look at the esteemed cartoonist's work, especially as it related to girlhood. Written by Susan E. Kirtley, the book is available now. With Barry'swork in a variety of mediums - comics novel sand stage -- widely acclaimed, , a dedicated look at her work is long overdue. It's part of UPM's Great Comics Artists Series.

Robert Kirkman's latest Image comics series, Thief of Thieves, is now in development with AMC TV with Kirkman writing and executive producing and Chic...

We really don't link to our comics coverage over at PW Comics World as much as we should, so we are here to remedy that, especially when an issue as jammed as this month's comes out. Some highlights:

Yahoo Answers....the raw id of our unknowledge....the cry for help in a darkling plain of the unknown. Some lass named Jann wandered in there and asked:

How far would you walk for a copy of your favorite comic? Would you do it with a group of friends? How about a road trip? People wander in pub crawls, sometimes in costume, so why not do it for comics instead of cheap beer?