Let’s Check In On Some Old Friends

⇒Turns out there was a really good reason that last Thursday’s tribute to Stan Lee took place at the Virgin Megastore: he’s just been hired as an editor at Virgin Comics, where he’ll be overseeing a line of superhero books including one focused on a team that he’ll be writing himself. “I’m going to get started working on it right away and I’m very excited about doing something that will be fresh and breaking new ground,” Lee told the Los Angeles Times. “I can’t give away the details or the names yet, but I have some exciting things in mind. (Dig the Mukesh Singh artwork created to promote the deal!)

⇒In another comics-related story, New York Comic Con attendees found out Friday evening that >prosecutors in Georgia have given up on their bumbling attempts to convict comics shop owner Gordon Lee of distributing obscene material to a minor. “All charges are dismissed,” Comic Book Legal Defense Fund director Charles Brownstein confirmed to Newsarama. “Gordon’s nightmarish ordeal is finally over.”

⇒Remember when Theodora Keogh died earlier this year, and there was much frustration over how none of the awesome-sounding novels she’d written were in print? Maud Newton tells us several of her novels are now available in e-book editions.

⇒The fanboy (and fangirl!) crushes that GalleyCat and UnBeige have on Chip Kidd are exceedingly well-documented, so it shouldn’t surprise you to know that Stephanie Murg is already on top of tonight’s “The World According to Chip Kidd lecture at the Fashion Institute of Technology. We expect a full report later this week!

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