Item: The Metro chain has picked up the Six Chix group strip, which includes a weekly dose of Rina Piccolo. (Shorter headline: Metro picks Piccolo)

Item: A North Bay comic shop gets its start with heart-warming tale of organ donation. The new store came about after the owner gave his liver tissue to his father. (Shorter headline: Grateful Pop Gives Nerd Shop

Item: The Globe and Mail spotlights a Toronto aritist on the forefront of “gamics” –comic strips, webcomics, and graphic novels using screenshots of videogames like Half-Life 2 and Star Wars Galaxies. (Shorter headline: Gamer Fanfic= “lame-ics”)

Item: Kate Beaton’s awesome Canada Day comic (Shorter headline: Awesome!)

Item: The Shusters blog picked up on the news that Pascal Blanchet has won a French literary prize. (Shorter headline: Prix Baloney)