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August 9, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

Links: Superheroes… and beyond!

August 9, 2009 by Brigid Alverson   Leave a Comment

Art Baltazar discusses his work on Tiny Titans with the local paper. (Via Robot 6.)

Kiel Phegley reports on David Peterson’s panel at Comic-Con, in which he talked about his plans for the next few volumes of Mouse Guard.

Peggy Orenstein meditates on her daughter’s love of superheroes at the New York Times Magazine.

Shaun Tan, creator of Tales of Outer Suburbia, has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award.

Michael Uslan, executive producer of The Dark Knight and various other comic-y films, will script the Archie superhero comic Pureheart the Powerful.

The Boston comics store Comicopia has started a blog about Twilight comics, Twilight-related comics, and comics that Twilight fans might like. (Via Blog@Newsarama.)

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About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.

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