Item: New Grickle on youtube.
Item: The latest Playboy playmate (Miss November) is a comics fan discovered at TCAF by Playboy cartoonist Doug Sneyd.
Item: Speaking of sex magazines, in international news, Penthouse founder and cartoonist/photographer Bob Guccione has died. Guccione brought the world the painted soft-core comic strip Oh Wicked Wanda by artist Ron Emberton and later published a line of Penthouse comic books.

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Speaking of cancer, Ryerson’s David Brame, a professor of fashion illustration, has illo’d 2 comics on testicular cancer.
Item: Speaking of Toronto cartoonists, Steve Murray is profiled about his mayor bid by his own paper.

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Polydactyl Hearts, the collective behind the Le Cyc graphic novel rock opera, are touring a new show called Hello Adventure and promoting the Le Cyc dvd.

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The Shuster blog profiles The Comic Hunter in Moncton.

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Robin talks with Jeet Heer, Gary Groth, aand Ben Schwartz about comics criticism on this week’s Inkstuds podcast.