NO NIGHTMARES

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UPDATE: Thanks for checking out the first half dozen or so pages of the new 32 page masterwork, which for once is actually following a weekly schedule with no breaks. The rest of it continues to be produced offline, so the full book will be available sometime in the first half of next year.

I know the suspense is getting to my many fans by now (all one dozen of them), but they'll just have to be patient and buy books by other cartoonists in the meantime.

Yes, once again my advertising genius is proven by not only resisting the urge to rush my book out too early, but by also advising folks to get the competition's product instead. Brilliant!

PLEASURE MEASURE

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WHERE'S ED WEIRDO?

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SAGE AGENT ADVICE

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THE BABE IS BACK

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BOGUS BACKGROUND

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ADVENTURE OF A LAFFTIME

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This one is the inside front cover of the new 32-page
Mr. Ed Weirdo Black And White Special.

COMICS ACE DICK AYERS PASSES

Artist best known as one of finest inkers at Marvel Comics,
from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. His most notable work
was over Jack Kirby's pencils, which included some of the earliest
issues of The Fantastic Four, and he became the signature inker of
the World War II classic Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos.
(Age: 90.)

RAY VANISHES FROM OUR ZONE

A GLEE FOR 3D:
Somehow for him, those pesky glasses were no problem.
(CNS) - - Los Angeles - - 3D comics and film pioneer Ray Zone died yesterday at age 65. The artist, filmmaker and historian passed away at his Los Angeles home after suffering from heart failure.

Zone championed stereography as an art form and broke into the comics industry in the 1980s, going on to apply the technique to more than 130 titles.

His notable works include the John Byrne-penned 1990 graphic novel Batman 3D, as well as projects for Image Comics, Blackthorne, Disney, and Nickelodeon Magazine.

Zone's skills in the field earned him the title of the "King of 3D Comics". He was a long-time member of the LA 3D Club and was serving as its vice president at the time of his death.

Over the last decade, he converted the pages of DC Comics' Action Comics #851 into 3D, and worked on several projects with legendary comic book artist Joe Kubert, who ironically also just passed away this year (August 12) practically three months to the day of Zone's passing (November 13).

So first Kubert and then Zone - could this be some sinister attack against 3D pioneers? What is the 2D world afraid of? Stay tuned!

SGT. ROCK ARTIST JOE KUBERT DIES

JOE "SGT. ROCK" KUBERT:
When it came to war comics, he was the sarge in charge.
(CNS) -- Joe Kubert, the DC Comics artist who co-created (with Robert Kaniger) and made popular the comic book character Sgt. Rock, as well as starting a school to train future illustrators, has died at age 85, a school official said Monday.

Kubert died Sunday of multiple myeloma, a cancer that attacks bone marrow, said Mike Chen, the academic director of the Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey.

The Sgt. Rock saga, which appeared mainly in both Our Army At War and GI Combat, followed a U.S. infantry squad in World War II. Kubert also did Enemy Ace, which told stories of both world wars from the perspective of a German fighter pilot.

"We're very saddened at the loss of our founder and our guide," Chen told CNN. "He was the heart and soul of the school. If it wasn't for him and his wife Muriel Kubert, there would be many, many cartoonists in the field both here in the United States and abroad that would not be in cartoons."

Kubert started the school in 1976 and was still drawing for DC up until his death, contributing to a recent series of prequels to the 1986 graphic novel "Watchmen."

In a statement issued Monday, DC co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio offered "our prayers, our sympathy and our deepest appreciation for everything he's contributed to comics over the course of his life and career."