Media Release -- Los Angeles, CA (June 17, 2009) for immediate release-Trying to squeeze a few more drops of sweet economic nectar from the well-squeezed stimulus package known as “Obama comics,” About Comics has created a special limited edition of Licensable Bear #4 (Barack’s first comic book appearance) for the Hero Initiative. A mere 60 copies of the Obamaesque (is that an adjective already?) Shepard Fairley-inspired cover have been printed, with 50 copies hand-numbered and signed by Licensable Bear creator Nat Gertler. The numbered copies are currently available via Hero’s eBay store.

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Charles Schulz. I’ll bet you’ve heard the name. Creator of the long-running and much loved Peanuts strip, it’s a good bet that the few who haven’t are still playing toy pianos and carrying around security blankets. What you may not have known, however, is that Schulz also wrote teenagers. In the event that you missed that little tidbit, a wonderful volume awaits you in Schulz’s Youth. And I have to say, the man wrote the adolescent crowd nearly as well as he did the shin-kickers.

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