Nominations for the 2005 National Newspaper Awards are announced. The awards include an Editorial Cartooning category in which Serge Chapleau of La Presse, Montreal; Brian Gable of The Globe and Mail, and Bruce MacKinnon of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald are nominated. Dr. Jon Suter donates his collection of over 2000 strips to the Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection. Teshkeel Media Group sign a deal to translate and distribute Archie Comics in the Middle East. March 18, 2006: Tom Spurgeon announces his top fifty comics of 2005. March 19, 2006: OK/Cancel discuss making money from webcomics. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on comics' literary status. Contra Costa Times reports on comics' literary status. The Age report on the success of manga in Australia. March 20, 2006: Marvel Comics are to release Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters, a series based on characters Jack Kirby created, with Kirby's daughter Lisa and former collaborator Mike Thibodeaux helping to expand on the concepts. Art Spiegelman has joined the jury to judge an anti-Semitic cartoon contest sponsored by Israeli comics collective Dimona Comics. ICv2 report that sales of comics to comic book stores were up in February. Casting Producer Austen James discusses the Sci-Fi Channel's new programme "Who Wants To Be a Superhero?", due to be aired in the United States this spring, with Comic Book Resources. Gerald Scarfe wins a British Press Award for Cartoonist of the Year. F Minus, a strip which appears on Comics.com, is to be syndicated by United Media from April 17. March 21, 2006: Tom Spurgeon reports that Dark Horse Comics are to release Off the Beaten Path, a collection of photographs of cartoonists in their studios by Greg Preston. The New York Review of Books review The R. Crumb Handbook. The Village Voice review Jessica Abel's La Perdida. March 22, 2006: Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: Laila Freivalds, Swedish Foreign Minister, resigns after being accused of lying to the media regarding the shutting down of sites which may have had plans to carry the cartoons. March 26, 2006: Superman/Batman #26 is announced as a tribute book to Sam Loeb, son of Jeph Loeb, who died in 2005. Sam Loeb was due to write the book himself, and 26 collaborators have been assembled to complete the work. The Los Angeles Times editorialises on the trademarked nature of the term Super Heroes. The North Bergen Reporter profile Otto Messmer, creator of Felix the Cat. March 27,