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Office Supplies: As part of its promotions for The Avengers movie, Marvel has released pixel art templates of each of the film's heroes that fans can assemble using Post-it notes. Donations: The Hero Initiative has received $2,871 in Avengers movie related donations (up from around $1,000 last week)...

Movies: You may have known all about how George Lucas financed Red Tails, a movie out in January about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen, but did you know Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder co-wrote it? Nice. Industry: Wizard has hired Kevin Kelly as managing editor of Wizard World's digital initiatives...

The classic Winsor McCay newspaper strip Little Nemo in Slumberland was adapted into an animated film in 1989 after a lengthy period in development hell that included scripts from both Moebius and the director of Adventures in Babysitting...

Movies: The Amazing Spider-Man's sequel has been dated for May 2, 2014. Sony's got some serious faith in their Webslinger reboot. Webcomics: Doug TenNapel's Ratfist has wrapped at 150 online pages. The full story will be collected by Image in December...

If The Very Hungry Caterpillar ever faces off against Pikachu in a Pokémon crossover, we've found a prime candidate to handle the art duties. Picking up some traditional collage strategies, a deviantART user named Botjira has glued together an extensive array of texture-laden nods to video games and animation. Psydu...

At this year's BrickCon -- an unofficial annual gathering of LEGO enthusiasts held in Seattle taking place from Sept. 30 through Oct. 3 -- east meets west as builders follow the overall theme of "Big in Japan," and, if the event-focused "Big in Japan at BrickCon 2010" Flickr group is any indication, LEGO fanatics and otaku have answered the call in droves with some incredible c

If you're a fan of acclaimed Japanese filmmaker and animator Hayao Miyazaki, then you'll likely be giddy at the news that the visionary director is considering a sequel to "Porco Rosso," his 1992 film about a pig-faced fighter pilot during World War I, to say nothing of the awesomeness that is Google Videos' new free-to-stream version of "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind... Read M

From what Pixar's revealed in its various teasers and trailers to date, there's a lot for fans to look forward to when "Toy Story 3" arrives in theaters on June 18. Aside from the return of Woody, Buzz and scads of other toys I'll be eying in stores over the coming months, there's one special character I'm really stoked to see - even if only in a brief cameo...