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Tim Hall and Jen Ferguson present an art show of their MONSTER MASHUPS art project, at Bergen Street Comics. Will there be costumes? There better be!!!

So, does The Walking Dead (premiering this Sunday, Halloween, on AMC at 10:00/9 PM C) live up to the hype? One Word Answer:  Ewwwwwwwwww!

You'd think a graphic novel drawn by Ramona Fradon, Rick Veitch, Michael Netzer and Terry Beatty would have gotten some attention, and it has, but not in comics circles. The Adventures of Unemployed Man by Erich Origen and Gan Golan, authors of the best-selling Goodnight, Bush. As you might guess, the topic at hand is an explanation (from one point of view) of why jobs are scarcer than a mint copy of CHEW #1. As a preview at Huffington Post shows, the story is a didactic allegory using superhero tropes to illustrate income disparity and the decoupling of profit from employment and...also how people turn into the Hulk from being exposed to too many Fox News rays.

Robot 6 previews THE LITTLEST PIRATE KING by David B., due any day from Fantagraphics, and dealing with...pirate zombies. Oh yeah. It's based on a short story by Pierre Mac Orlan.

It's Halloween Week AND Walking Dead Week and this is freaking radical: special limited edition artwork by four indie art stars, available at Secret Headquarters in LA.

Back in the days when comics media was on paper, there was the Comics Journal, the Comics Buyer's Guide, and Comics Interview. Edited by David Anthony Kraft, in the magazine's 150 issue run, just about anybody who was of note in the comics industry of the '80s and early '90s was interrogated. It's a treasure trove of historical material long unavailable (unless you happen to be rooting through The Beat's storage unit) but the revamped Comico is changing that with a POD reprint project that is available now for $34.95 -- the whole project will run 11 books, and each volume will be offered in a regular and deluxe edition, as well as paperback and hardcover.

This week's New Yorker cover -- woot! Via Flog

With the Garrity Doctrine igniting uproar all over the intertubes, Webcomic Overlook's El Santo presents a rebuttal of sorts, Ten Things To Know About the Future of Webcomics. While any kind of manga-vs-webcomics fight is silly -- they are parallel and non-competitive -- lists are always fun. He admits a lot of the list is quite off the cuff, but a couple of points strike us as especially pertinent:

This wide-ranging interview with noise cartoonist Brian Chippendale covers his old classics MAGGOTS and NINJA, and his new classic, IF 'n' OFF, and also the Fort Thunder alumnus' reading tastes:

Kate Beaton gets her annual spot in the Halloween countdown with Children of the Night.

Shaenon T. Garrity, as she so often does, sums up all the things we've been talking about with a piece called Ten Things to Know About the Future of Comics. A sample:

Paul, the octopus who stunned the world by correctly picking all his games in the 2010 World Cup, has died. It was not unexpected since at 2 1/2 he was up there in octopus years, but it is still sad.