Never Made to Last: Stories of Suburban Folklore TP
Steven Walters’ website
recent interview with Steven Walters

I think this may have been solicited in Previews before, but I don’t recall. Anyway, if you missed it, it’s scheduled for this week and you should go get it because it’s really good.

Also this week:
Occult Crimes Taskforce #3 (of 4). Co-written by Rosario Dawson.
Heroes For Hire #6

News from the Big Apple Con this past weekend: Blackjack creator Alex Simmons is putting together a part comic-con, part learning seminar for kids this April. The inaugural Kids Comic Con will be Saturday, April 28 at the Bronx Community College here in New York, from 11-6. He’s promising comics-making workshops, guest creators, retailers, and a cartoon-watching area. More on this as it develops.

Professor Bill Foster‘s travelling exhibition of black comics history will come to Geppi’s Entertainment Museum in Baltimore beginning next month, from February 3 – March 17.

In other news: Spawn‘s going through some changes.

NPR has a feature on black-themed graphic novels.

Dwayne McDuffie talks about his latest animation gig.