Continuing what has been a spate of fairly high profile comic shop thefts in the last few weeks, TMZ reports on allegations levelled against actor Ray Buffer, who has been accused of stealing $600 worth of funny books from San Diego’s Southern California Comics, with video footage appearing to support the claims.Some more comics personnel change news, as ICv2 shares Z2 Comics' announcement that the publisher's co-founder and CEO Josh Frankel has departed for pastures new, with various internal title changes and promotions in the wake of this.A fair amount of news winging its way out of the NYCC PR cavalcade, and two of the bigger stories were the announcement that Heavy Metal have entered into a publishing partnership with ecommerce platform Whatnot, and that former Marvel Editor in Chief Joe Quesada has crossed the aisle to the Distinguished Competition to provide variant covers for Batman.In prizes to be announced news, The Beat shares the reveal of the finalists for this year's Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics, with Marc Bernadin and Ariela Kristantina's Adora and the Distance Lilah Sturges and Meaghan Carter's Girl Haven Harmony Becker's Himawari House Desirée Proctor, Erica Harrell, and Lynne Yoshii's Nuclear Power and Johnnie Christmas' Swim Team all in the running.Last weekend also saw the return of the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus Awards, with Keith Knight presented with the Master Cartoonist Award, Lee Marrs and Trina Robbins presented with the Transformative Work Award, and manga translator and scholar Frederick Schodt presented with the Tom Spurgeon Award, while Victoria Douglas was presented with 2022’s Emerging Talent Prize the following day on the show floor.

One of the last bumper crops of awards news of the year, as convention season meanders towards a close, with last weekend seeing the Harvey Awards taking place at New York Comic Con, and prizes were given to Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi’s The Good Asian for Book of the Year, Rachel Smythe’s Lore Olympus for Digital Book of the Year, and Mirka Andolfo’s Sweet Paprika for Best International Book.Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: /UjTsejqvPR Features Nine, Ten, Never Sleep Again – This Week’s LinksĪ brief welcome to this week’s links, a selection of which can be found below, as it’s being written in short bursts between walks in the countryside which I’ve spent the last few days in close proximity to - I read a paper a while back on how closeness to nature can be beneficial to mental health, so I put that to the test by standing in the complete silence of a woodland glade while doomscrolling using surprisingly good 5G signal, and, you know what, it did actually feel a bit better.

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