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Animation: Director Alex Zamm has posted footage from a canned Marvin the Martian CG/live action short, along with a Hong Kong Phooey CG demo on his Vimeo site. Upcoming: Fantagraphics has posted an online preview of the upcoming Messages in a Bottle, which will collect the best comics by Bernard Krigstein...

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)...

Remember Mike Meyer? The guy in Illinois who had his entire Superman collection wiped out by a heartless thief last year? After reports of the theft reached the comic book community, there was an incredible outpouring of support for Meyer from comic book fans (and creators) who were touched by his story and wanted to help...

In one of the cooler trans-corporate crossovers we've seen in a while, the producers of This American Life have collaborated with Marvel Comics to create a limited edition poster featuring Wolverine and Nightcrawler to promote both the X-Men comics as well as This American Life, the Ira Glass radio documentary series enjoyed by homo-sapiens and mutants alike...

Lots of Chris Ware everywhere: The indie artist drew the cover of the most recent "New Yorker," along with a typically melancholy Halloween feature. Boing Boing also reminded us of an episode of "This American Life" (below) that Ware animated for Showtime about a fad at an elementary school where kids started making cardboard cameras and pretended to film the events around them

Comic fans, Twitter addicts and those with a reasonable disdain for Miley Cyrus were in for a real treat this past Saturday when writer Jason Aaron's ("Wolverine," "Ghost Rider") jest about the opportunities presented by Disney's $4 billion acquisition of Marvel Comics was featured as a quiz question on NPR and Chicago Public Radio's "Wait Wait...