• Tom Spurgeon offers a preview of Haligonian Ray Fenwick's Hall of Best Knowledge graphic novel at Comics Reporter.

• A report on comics culture in Japan by a journalist/tourist, at the Brantford Expositor.

• Toronto-based UpTrend Media is the new promoter of Platinum Studios' drunkduck.com webcomics and online community effort.

• International: Marvel is hyping a midnight launch for the newest volume of its Stephen King adaptation, Dark Tower. The previous volume has been on the Canadian bestseller lists for awhile now and the second volume drops March 5 at "participating retailers". Only U.S. comic book shops are listed at Marvel's website.

• Catching up with Jim Bartleman, Ontario's former lieutenant governor who taught himself to read with comic books found at the local garbage dump.

• Robin Bougie has the updated censorship rules now being used by Canada Customs and also notes that the first printing of his collected Cinema Sewer book is basically sold out.

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