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Chris Ware has tested a whole lot of different formats for his graphic novels, including massively over-sized books, joke books, and craft sets. Now, he's sort of going back to the early roots of comics, publishing a weekly strip on the website of British newspaper The Guardian, titled 'The Last Saturday'. The first installment of the strip was published Saturday, Sept. 13, with a brief introduction. The apparent premise is that the comic will follow the lives of six characters, all from the town of Sandy Port, Michigan, and presumably all riddled with self-deprecation and insecurity. It is a Ware work, after all.

Industry professionals new and old gathered last night for the 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards at Comic-Con International in San Diego, and it proved to be a big night for Chris Ware, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Ware's Building Stories took home four awards, including Best Writer/Artist and Best Publication Design, while Vaughan and Staples' Saga swept its three categories: Best Con

Being one of just 20 cartoonists called to study cartooning at the prestigious Center for Cartoon Studieseach fall has to be an incredible honor. It's also got to be kind of terrifying to find one's self suddenly in the presence of James Sturm, Jason Lutes, Chris Ware and other giants, and have to impress them.

We didn't realize when we set out to list our favorite comic books of 2012 that it had been such a fun year to be a fan of the medium that we all love so much. The last twelve months offered readers a wide variety of work ranging from the most crowd-pleasing superhero epics to the most idiosyncratic of indies; the return of much missed mangaka and the emergence of exciting new talent; a new crowd-

Stan Lee, the co-creator of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Thor, The X-Men, and nearly every Marvel character your friends who don't read comics are actually familiar with, is 90 years old today. Despite a recent health scare or two, Stan "The Man" continues to go strong...

Fashion: Nike teams up with Calvin Johnson for a very stylish collection honoring the Transformers villain Megatron. Fashion: One Piece's Straw Hats rock Armani in a new Japanese A|X ad campaign. Interviews: Chris Ware's MSNBC interview on The Cycle makes a very solid case for checking out Building Stories (which I still can't find a place for on my bookshelf, but dig nonetheless)... Read Mor

Gaming: Green Arrow will be a playable character in Injustice: Gods Among Us when the DC fighting game arrives. Industry: Dark Horse has officially promoted Scott Allie to Editor in Chief. Fan Films: The first episode of the fan film web series, Batgirl: Spoiled, is now online...

Indie: Elfquest is back with a new story, "The Final Quest," set for regular serialization on Boing Boing starting September 10. Movies: It looks like the "Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase One" Blu-ray collection is still coming out, although it's been delayed until spring 2013...

Eats: Japan's Shiro-Hige Cream Puff Factory bakes some very neighborly Totoro cream puffs. Upcoming: To coincide with the release of Chris Ware's Multi-Story, Drawn and Quarterly will release a limited signed and numbered 11" x 16" x 18" building model of the titular structure this fall...

Crowdfunding: Top Cow's Cyber Force Kickstarter is now live, giving backers a chance to help "produce and give away the first full five issue story arc of the brand-new Cyber Force full color ongoing series." Gaming: Deadpool comic writer Daniel Way is apparently also writing Activision and High Moon Studios' upcoming Deadpool video game...