Spider-Man stands up to cancer, Iron Man 3 movie rumors swirl, and DC Comics artist Oliver Nome could use your help, this week on the Planet 46 Comics Show with Matt Price and Kyle Roberts.
SPIDER-MAN STANDS UP TO CANCER
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and Columbia Pictures film, The Amazing Spider-Man™, announced a
collaboration on a line of special co-branded t-shirts that feature both the The Amazing Spider-Man artwork and hero messaging encouraging everyone to take action against cancer. Laura Ziskin, the film producer who produced three Spider-Man features, also co-founded and executive produced the 2008 and 2010 Stand Up To Cancer telecasts. At the time of her death in June 2011, she was at work on The Amazing Spider-Man.
Features Editor Matthew Price has worked for The Oklahoman since 2000. He’s a University of Oklahoma graduate who has also worked at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and was a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern for the Dallas Morning News. He’s always been interested in comics, reading them at age 2, working in comic shops starting at 17, printing his first comics 'zine at 20 and buying a comic-book store at 23. His column on comics, Word Balloons, has run weekly in The Oklahoman’s Weekend Look section since 2001.Matt's blog, Nerdage, has been honored by the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists, and his store, Norman's Speeding Bullet Comics, co-owned with his wife, Annette, was nominated for the Eisner Spirit of Retailing Award in 2005.