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Aug 31st 2009

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We shall start this week's art news with Adolf Hitler.

The Führer's Obsession with Art
Hitler's Favorite Painters

In Pictures: Ugandan Comic Hero

Early Music Discovered on Carving

Templar, Arizona's Spike Talks Alt History and Extreme Subcultures

Who Watches DC Comics – Diane Nelson To Take Watchman Job At Warner?
New Era at DC Comics?

With Great Power...

Bird Brain

Why Can't Novelists Get the Internet Right?

5 Ways to Improve Your Online Art Presence

The 180 Rule and When to Break It

Guerrilla-Art Sculpture Appears Overnight in Gas Works

Art or Obscenity? A Nude Model is Arrested at the Met
Naked at the Museum

Replace the Animator? I Agree. 100%

Muslim Women in Comic Books

And we'll end this week's art news with that thing that everybody's talking about...

Disney to Acquire Marvel for 4 Billion
The House of Mouse Eats the House of Ideas: Disney Buys Marvel
Walt Disney Company to Purchase Marvel Entertainment
Disney Buys Marvel: What We Know About the Deal So Far
Three Burning Questions Surrounding the Disney/Marvel Deal
Disney to Buy Marvel in $4 Billion Deal
10 Movies We're Dreading Now that Disney Owns Marvel

...My own opinion is thoroughly neutral, aside from a surreal feeling that Howard and Donald could now possibly coincide. Um...From the way everybody's talking, it might just be about the handling of the movies, and one speculates that Marvel Studios will pretty much still just get to do their own thing, and Disney will just get monies from it. I don't know that this'll impact the comics...which is very important, because, ya know, I need my spandexed soap operas!
...Okay. Please stop asking me what I think now.