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In case you missed it, Papercutz announced “The Only Living Girl,” a spin-off to their “The Only Living Boy” series, and IDW and Yoe Books are partnering to publish Jim Benton’s middle-grade readers graphic novel, “Clyde.”
– Broken Frontier celebrated the announcement of two upcoming Myriad Editions graphic novels: “Pluralism,” by artist Sabba Khan and “Biscuits (assorted)” by Jenny Robins. Broken Frontier had previously named Khan to their 2018 “Six Small Press Creators to Watch” list, and Robins, who recently won Myriad’s First Graphic Novel Competition, contributes to the website. Myriad will publish “Biscuits (assorted)” in April 2021, and “Pluralism” in June 2021.
– Den of Geek! dropped an extensive interview with Vertigo Executive Editor Mark Doyle, in which Doyle discussed each of the titles releasing as part of Vertigo’s ongoing 25th anniversary revival.
– Disneyland’s Marvel-themed area is inching closer to reality. The park officially closed A Bug’s Land yesterday, in preparation for the new Marvel-themed area to take its place. Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reported on the closure.
– The Beat reported on an additional non-direct market outlet for DC Comics: four-packs that have begun showing up at discount retailer Five Below. For more information on these four-packs, which seem to include a variety of series and variant covers, head on over to The Beat.
– The Gifted and Sleepy Hollow Executive Producer Len Wiseman has been tapped to helm the DC Universe streaming service’s Swamp Thing series. Deadline reports that Wiseman will executive produce the series and direct the first episode, which will be written by fellow Executive Producers Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman.
– Bleeding Cool profiled artist Jason Fabok’s (“Justice League,” “The Man of Steel”) design for the Royal Canadian Mint’s new 3-D Superman coin, which will release later this month for the price of $100 (Canadian, most likely). To see process sketches and a 3-D mock-up of the coin, click over to Bleeding Cool.
