Pop links: RIP comic book covers; trailer for Disney's Christmas Carol; Jimmy Thompson's Robot Man; remembering Jim Carroll; Hembeck, more!

Bully takes a look at a favorite comic book cover convention: RIP covers. I posted my own batch a while back here.



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Watch a trailer for Disney's "A Christmas Carol."



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A great, overlooked talent of comics' Golden Age? Cartoon Snap makes the case for Robotman artist Jimmy Thompson.



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"Punk poet" and author of "The Basketball Diaries" Jim Carroll has died at age 60, The New York Times reports.

As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Mr. Carroll led a chaotic life that combined sports, drugs and poetry. This highly unusual combination lent a lurid appeal to “The Basketball Diaries,” the journal he kept during high school and published in 1978, by which time his poetry had already won him a cult reputation as the new Bob Dylan.



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Kanye West must be stopped.



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Time to check out a great new batch of Fred Hembeck 'toons!

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