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The LOCKE & KEY audioplay is available from Audible as of right now (October 5th) and for a limited time it’s free. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

Ta-Nehisi Coates to Write Black Panther Comic for Marvel

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Be The Hero: Get to Know Sana Amanat’s Story

Sana Amanat is a renowned comic book editor and the creator of the breakthrough Muslim-American female comic book superhero, Ms. Marvel. Growing up in overwhelmingly white suburban New Jersey, Amanat was pained and felt like an “outsider” as one of the only Muslim families in the community, and often the only person of color in her class. Amanat’s identity as a Pakistani-American Muslim (her parents were recent immigrants) in an otherwise overwhelmingly Caucasian community led her to find solace in an unlikely place: on the pages of X-MEN comic books, where she found friends and inspiration in the “otherness” of the superhero characters of those stories.+

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HAPPY BLACK CANARY DAY. Issue 4 is now available with wonderful interiors by guest artist Pia Guerra (Y: The Last Man). Written by Brenden Fletcher, colors by Lee Loughridge, letters by Steve Wands.

Kate Beaton: beatonna

Noelle Stevenson: gingerhaze

SPX Spotlight on Kate Beaton & Noelle Stevenson

Saturday, 9/19, 12-1pm, White Oak Room

STEP ASIDE, I’M A SHARK! Two of our favorite creators sit down for a discussion of webcomics, writing for all ages, and their latest works. SPX is thrilled to present Kate Beaton, creator of “Hark! A Vagrant!”, “The Princess and the Pony” and her SPX 2015 debut “Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant! Collection” in discussion with Noelle Stevenson, creator of “Nimona” and co-creator of Eisner Award-winning series “Lumberjanes.” No sharks or ponies were harmed in the making of this panel. Moderated by Heidi MacDonald.

Mahershala Ali Joins the Cast of the Netflix Original Series ‘Marvel’s Luke Cage’

“Marvel’s Luke Cage” has found its Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes with the casting of Mahershala Ali (“House of Cards,” “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay –Parts 1 & 2”). The series will premiere in 2016 everywhere that Netflix is available.Stokes, a Harlem nightclub owner, will become an unexpected foe in Luke’s life when Stokes’ criminal activities threaten Luke’s world.

I work entirely with Blackwing pencils for a number of reasons. One is it’s very soft lead and, therefore, wears down very quickly, so you can spend a lot of time re-sharpening them, which is a lot easier and more fun than writing. - Stephen Sondheim

ODY-C is a monster that eats pages and pencils in startling amounts. forty-some longhand pages and a pencil to the point i could no longer hold it well. Two overflowing sharpener-trays worth of soft 602 wood. The perfect pencil.

Also I dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s the best I could on the 400-page SATELLITE SAM complete collection hardcover tonight and would just like to give a shout out to everyone working in comics production, everyone going bleary-eyed and bent-spined as they stare at InDesign file after InDesign file, making sure the comics actually fucking happen, making sure I’s get dotted, that t’s get crossed, all day, every day, across hundreds and thousands of pages as fancy little shitheads like me say things like “does it have to be italic?” and whine because we just approved 400-pages and they then open up yet ANOTHER .indd file and go through yet ANOTHER 400 pages of whining about italics and checking print bleed guidelines and trapping blacks properly so it all looks so perfect and effortlessly amazing