Carnival of souls

* Cartoonists Jeffrey Brown, John Hankiewicz, Paul Hornschemeier, and Anders Nilsen are dissolving their online parternship, The Holy Consumption.

* Here’s a comparatively rare interview with “greatest of his generation”-bait cartoonist Kevin Huizenga. (Via Heidi MacDonald.)

* Jon Favreau talks to SciFi wire about keeping the Iron Man franchise believable in the face of the Mandarin, Thor, and other perils of Marvel-based moviemaking.

* Jason Adams posts a screencap-laden tribute to Fear(s) of the Dark, the animated horror anthology film featuring Charles Burns, Blutch, Lorenzo Mattotti and more, by way of noting that the movie will start screening in NYC and on demand on October 24th.

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* Nick Bertozzi has posted some preview pages from his upcoming graphic novel with Colbert Report writer Glenn Eichler, Stuffed!

* The L.A. Times posts some unused excerpts from their upcoming profile of Lost‘s perpetually erudite Michael Emerson, aka the best villain on television, Ben Linus. (Via Whitney Matheson.)

* io9 interviews A+D, the mash-up producers and DJs behind indispensable mash-up site/club night/etc. Bootie.

* Hey, look, you can get a Gary Frank Christopher Reeve Superman statue!

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* Yo, I totally agree that “Cobra Commander as disgruntled used car salesman” is as zany an idea in its own way as “Cobra Commander as Himalayan mutant-man.” That was my point! I’m just saying that it’s a mugs game to try to use something that self-evidently cockamamie as evidence that the G.I. Joe comics were far more mature than the kids’-stuff cartoons, which I’ve seen people do. (Via Leigh Walton.)

* Meet the Ant from Mars: Scientists have discovered a blind, subterranean, predatory species of ant in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. It is creepy. (Via Keith Uhlich.)

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