Thursday, March 31, 2011
Welcome to Today’s Comics Guide! This is the 31st installment in Comics Buyer’s Guide’s ongoing home for daily comics notes, news, and views. Please join us, and feel free to comment in the “Leave a Reply” box at the bottom of the page to provide your own notes, news, and views!
Noted
• We’ve sorted the ballots and determined the nominees for the 29th annual CBG Fan Awards. You can check out the nominees in our 12 categories and vote for your favorites through May 31. (Brent Frankenhoff)
• Thanks to all who participated in the charity event put on by our parent company, F+W Media, yesterday. We donated 50% of profits from any sales in our online stores yesterday to Japanese Relief. Our e-stores carry books, magazines, webinars, educational courses, and more. (Brent Frankenhoff)
Yesterday’s Panel Quiz Answer
The first words spoken in comics by Jason Woodrue (the future Floronic Man) were, “Aha, my little beauties! I’m glad to see you obeyed Maya when I commanded her to order you here!” in The Atom #1 (Jul 62).
Today’s Panel Quiz
Whose first words in comics were “Another prize for my collection! From Jim Rock in Egypt.”?
Born Today
Franco Bonvicini (1941), comics artist
Steven T. Seagle (1965), comics writer
Birthdays 2 Weeks from Now
Sheldon “Shelly” Moldoff (1920), comics artist
Dave Gibbons (1949), comics artist
Chuck Dixon (1954), comics writer
Gerhard (1959), comics inker and writer
Dan Clowes (1961), comics writer and artist
Question of the Week
What is the most ridiculous super-power used by a comic-book character?
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Comics-Related Media
• Big Bang Theory (Season 4, Episode 19, “The Zarnecki Incursion”) is on CBS at 8 p.m. E.T.
The Magazine
TONY’S BLOGGY THING 3/31/11: “Trigger-Happy?” Read it at:
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Tony