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This week’s news.
• Starting the week with news out of last week’s ComicsPRO annual meeting in Pittsburgh, as ICv2 shares the headlines that DC will be answering the pleas of readers and retailers and shifting their new comic book day for periodicals back to Wednesday this summer, while, across the aisle, Marvel Comics will be setting their base cover price (with some fairly extensive caveats) to $3.99 - if you too are just cuckoo for comics distro logistics minutiae, then a round-up of other news items from the meeting can be read at ICv2 here .
• Tiffany Babb announced the recipients of the inaugural Comics Criticism Mini Grant program, with Armaan Babu, Sean Dillon, Lillian Hochwender, Kelly Kanayama, Carrie McClain, Hagai Palevsky, and Tynan Stewart each receiving an award of $250.
• Elsewhere, the Eisner Awards judges - this year comprising Dr. William Foster, Michael T. Gilbert, Karen Green, Alonso Nuñez, Jim Thompson, and Maggie Thompson - announced their choices for this year’s Hall of Fame inductees, with 19 picks, including Kim Deitch, Gary Groth, Keiji Nakazawa, Ron Turner, and Lynn Varley - the full class 0f 2024 inductees can be found here .
• Anime News Network shared the announcement that Skip and Loafer creator, Misaki Takamatsu, and the Afternoon Magazine editorial team, will be donating 10 million Yen to the Ishikawa Prefecture Relief Fund Account, to support recovery efforts, following January’s earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture’s Noto Peninsula.
• In memoriam , remembering those the world of comics has lost, and news was shared this week of the passing of storied comics artist Ramona Fradon, co-creator of DC’s Metamorpho , who has died at the age of 97 - Steven Ringgenberg’s obituary for Fradon can be read here at TCJ , and tributes from social media can be read on Fradon’s Legacy page .
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