end with issue #90, scheduled for publication in March 2007. January 26, 2006: Lewis Trondheim is awarded the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême at the Angoulême International Comics Festival January 26, 2006: Dylan Horrocks is named University of Auckland/Creative New Zealand Literary Fellow 2006. January 30, 2006: The Children's Publishing division of Reader's Digest announce a licensing deal with Marvel Comics which will see them launch a line of interactive books based on popular Marvel characters. January 31, 2006: Spike TV have greenlit a thirteen episode series based on the Blade comics and films. Todd McFarlane Toys announce a deal with Warner Bros. allowing it to produce a line of action figures based on characters from the Hanna-Barbera library. February February 1, 2006: A French newspaper, France-Soir, reprints the cartoons at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. February 2, 2006: Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: The editor of French newspaper France-Soir, which reprinted the cartoons at the centre of the controversy, is fired. Many newspapers in continental Europe re-publish the cartoons. The United States Joint Chiefs of Staff issue a letter of protest against a The Washington Post cartoon by Tom Toles. Wizard announce the cancellation of WizardWorld Boston. CNet News examine the digitization of comics. Lewis Trondheim gives an interview in which he offers his frank opinions on journalists covering the medium. February 3, 2006: Muslims take to the streets in many countries to protest the publication of the cartoons lampooning Mohammed. The Indian Express reports nostalgically on the comic strips The Phantom and Jiggs. Michael Fry announces his weekly panel Committed is to end on February 19. February 4, 2006: Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: Syrian protestors set fire to Denmark's embassy in Damascus. They were demonstrating against the publication of cartoons defaming Mohammed in a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. February 6, 2006: Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: It is reported that at least four people around the world are dead as a result of violent protests against the cartoons published in late 2005 by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten The Daily Telegraph seeks to uncover the source of the "extra" three cartoons which were distributed in The Middle East as being actual cartoons published by Jyllands-Posten, when they were in actuality not. Lagardère, a French publishing giant, is to purchase Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner. The division handles the distribution of graphic novels published by DC Comics to