April 18. Aaron McGruder is to take a six-month break from Boondocks. It is reported that at the recent New York Comic Con Dark Horse Comics announced that they are to double their output of manga titles this year. Marvel Comics and Top Cow announce a tie-up which will see artists employed by Top Cow illustrating up to 36 Marvel titles this year. DC Comics are to publish Megatokyo through their imprint CMX. The title had previously been published by Dark Horse Comics. The Oregon Daily Emerald reports on Art Spiegelman's speaking tour date at the University of Oregon. Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: Nigerian governors condemn the recent riots that have taken place in the country. March March 1, 2006: Renae Geerlings becomes editor in chief of Top Cow Productions Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: Salman Rushdie is amongst the twelve writers who are signatories to a statement denouncing Islamism as "a new global totalitarian threat" March 2, 2006: R. Kikuo Johnson's Night Fisher graphic novel has been named on the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age list for 2006 Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly have contracted with Puffin Books to produce two projects. The first, Big Fat Little Lit, is a collection of stories from the couple's three volume Little Lit series, whilst the second, Toon Into Reading, is described by Mouly as "a revolutionary new concept to draw kids into the pleasures of reading." Penny Arcade Vol. 1: Attack of the Bacon Robots is to receive a second printing March 3, 2006: Neil Gaiman writes a piece for The Guardian detailing his thoughts on the adapting of comics stories to film Stacy Curtis, editorial cartoonist for The Times of Northwest Indiana is let go. There are now reportedly approximately 80 full-time editorial cartoonists employed in the United States The National Press Club of Canada launch their 6th International Editorial Cartoon Competition, with a theme of "Cartooning in a dangerous environment". Virgin Comics announces its initial line of comics, with three books, Devi, Ramayan Reborn, and The Sadhu published under the company's Shakti imprint, and a fourth, as yet unnamed project to be printed under the Director's Cut imprint Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: Pakistan blocks access to blogs and websites which encourage people to cartoon the prophet Mohammed March 5, 2006: Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: Over 50 000 people reportedly protest against the cartoons in Pakistan, whilst