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It is worth running this press release jut to run this graphic. Events include a signing at the NY Toys 'r' Us at 7 pm on Friday.

Hall of Famers, Steranko and Kubert highlight the activities here.

Industry analyst Milton Griepps site ICv2 is known for holding thought-provoking conferences each year before New York Comic Con and this year is no exception as the ICv2 Digital Comics Conference tackles the digital comics world, with virtually all the major players in attendance and ready to spill the beans. Note, the Beat is one of the sponsors of the event.

Art blog Comic Twart is taking on Silver Sable, who actually had her own title that lasted a whole 35 issues back in the day.

Bobby Timony of Zuda's Night Owls provides a nod to an imagined Laurel & Hardy's horror comedy, LAUREL & HARDY: VAMPIRE HUNTERS. Click for a larger version.

Now THIS is interesting. The other day we were talking about how the lack of strong demographic readership info is definitely felt in the comics space. It's not a scientific survey, but Kelly Thompson at She Has No Head has started something called the Ladies Comics Project where she asks her female friends -- some comics readers some not -- to pick and read a comic previously unknown to them and give their thoughts.

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.

From a comment at Techland:

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.