Nickerson place a DC Comics contract, as annotated by Sim, on the web. See also: Creator's Bill of Rights October 22–23: During the Stripdagen in Houten, The Netherlands, Jan Steeman wins the Stripschapprijs. The website Stripster receives the P. Hans Frankfurtherprijs and Dik Bruynesteyn, Dick Vlottes and Jan van der Voo receive the Bulletje en Boonestaakschaal. October 23: Joe Sacco is profiled by The Oregonian October 24: Roger Stern is interviewed by Newsarama October 26: Stephen King is to launch a comic book series with Marvel Comics based upon his Dark Tower series October 27: The latest Xeric grants are announced Image Comics launches a new website Thomas N. Thornton, CEO of Andrews McMeel Publishing, responds to perceived criticisms of the company's new Calvin and Hobbes collection Todd McFarlane is to be guest of honor at February 2006's inaugural New York Comic-con October 31: Carly Berwick laments the lack of great female comic book artists The Guardian profiles Chris Ware November November 2: Scott Morse announces he is to launch his own imprint, Red Window. He has established a distribution deal for his imprint with AdHouse Books November 3: Mark Millar announces he is to take a six-month sabbatical from comics for health reasons November 4: The Harvey Awards have ended their ties with New York's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art and are now to be presented at the Baltimore Comic-Con, with the 19th awards to be presented on Saturday, September 9, 2006 Don Bluth donates over a million pieces of artwork to the Savannah College of Art and Design. The donation consists of animation cels, preliminary sketches and associated drawings Alan Moore is interviewed in The Independent November 6: It is reported that Thomas Haden Church is to play Sandman in the Spider-Man 3 movie November 7: Slate present a slide show essay on Calvin and Hobbes Newspapers in the United States are reported to be considering carrying manga strips from January 2006. The two strips reportedly up for inclusion are Van Von Hunter and Peach Fuzz November 8: Alan Moore is profiled by Publishers Weekly November 9: Marvel releases its third quarter financial statement IDT Entertainment announce an animated Hellboy project November 10: Paramount has optioned the movie rights to Charles Burns' recently completed graphic novel, Black Hole November 11: Arnold Drake is interviewed by newsarama Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez discusses the Los Angeles Times decision