Bill Watterson answers fifteen selected questions from fans around the world to publicise the upcoming release of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes September 23: The two-day Small Press Expo opens with Harvey Pekar as special guest. September 25: The 2005 Ignatz Awards are announced at the Small Press Expo. Amongst the winners were David B, voted the Outstanding Artist and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, voted Outstanding Graphic Novel October October 1: Lea Hernandez steps down as editor of Girlamatic.com, to be replaced by Lisa Jonté October 3: Jay Stephens launches his own blog Cute Creeps From Pop Culture October 4: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is released October 5: Matt Madden is interviewed by Bookslut October 8: Art Spiegelman is one of 196 inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences October 10: Dark Horse licenses the rights to reprint a number of manga titles, including Juon Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker analyses graphic novels October 11: Marvel 1602 wins the inaugural graphic novel Quill Award October 13: The tenth annual International Comic Arts Festival begins in Washington, D.C. October 14: Lynd Ward is profiled by In These Times The Oberlin Review profiles Marjane Satrapi Maus and Beyond, an exhibition looking at comic book and graphic novel portrayals of the Shoah, opens at the Centennial College, Toronto. It runs until November 30 October 16: Bob Andelman, biographer of Will Eisner, picks 10 graphic novels for a beginner to start with October 17: Charles Burns is interviewed by The Book Standard The Melvin Gelman Library of George Washington University is to add 300 graphic novels to its collection The New York Times profile Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!, a collection of Little Nemo strips publishing them as originally printed Hunt Emerson has adapted John Ruskin's Unto This Last into comics format, retitling the work How To Be Rich. Two-thirds of the 15,000 print run will be distributed to secondary schools in the United Kingdom October 18: Dale Eaglesham signs a two-year exclusive contract with DC Comics Watchmen is named as one of Time magazine's top 100 English language novels published since 1923 Carla Speed McNeil launches the online serialisation Carla Speed McNeil of Finder. McNeil has suspended the publication of the work in comic book format, although serials will still be collected and published as graphic novels October 20: Dave Sim and Al