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Raina Telgemeier has had a busy year promoting her graphic novel SMILE -- which was just picked as an Honor Book for the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. She shares some of her pictures, including stops in Maine, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Toronto, and Queens. Here's Telegemier at the Dumbo Arts Festival just a week ago.

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Veteran artist Ronn Sutton was long the artist on the long-gone Claypool's Elvira comic and here's a nice tribute to the Mistress of the Dark, who just relaunched her movie weekends.

Why do Hanna-Barbera characters really like bathing together? All that and more in today's news roundup.

The creator of several webcomics, including Elf n' Troll, Furtado contributed not one but TWO tentacled horrors to our Halloween gallery. His blog can be found here and his DeviantArt page here.

Today is not only the 60th anniversary of the debut of Peanuts, but part of an ongoing COUNTDOWN TO THE GREAT PUMPKIN social media game whereby fans can contribute their own memories, videos and so on on a variety of platforms. Participants win points towards winning a custom Peanuts iPad, and then a further $25,000 prize. Full details in the link.

Yep, it's that time of year again! And we already have so many awesome contributions we may have to to do more than one picture a day just to keep up. But please keep the links and art coming. We kick off this year's festivities with Andrea Tsurumi's 13 Witches project. According to her website, Tsurumi is an illustrator/cartoonist who is part of the Tapir Tooth comics collective, and creator of the webcomic TERKA.

Right Thing The Wrong Way: Included will be various works by the core artists involved in the development of Highwater Books (Brian Ralph, Megan Kelso,...

Speaking of Cartoonists Doing Things: Steve Murray -- the birth name of the cartoonist better known worldwide as Chip Zdarsky -- has launched a campaign for mayor of Toronto, ON:

The folks at Penny Arcade are running "Rob Liefeld Pose" * contest to promote the Liefeld inspired video game Comic Jumper. And artist Rob Liefeld entered it himself.

Okay, so far today we know senior citizens are reading comics, millennials are using wifi to have human contact...but WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN????? Well according to a Scholastic study, they are reading things on handheld devices We'll just jump ahead to the nut graph:

Via FLOG, word of a new, expanded website for Johnny Ryan with a blog and prints and all. The above are examples of new prints for sale.