announces the nominees under consideration for awards at the 2006 festival. Charles Schulz, Jeff Smith, Chris Ware and Jaime Hernandez are amongst the many contenders Italian cartoonist Gipi wins the Prix Goscinny, an annual prize awarded by jury and named in honour of René Goscinny December 8, 2005: Pierre Wazem wins the Swiss Prix International de la Ville de Geneve Warren Ellis is to revamp Marvel's New Universe line, originally launched in 1986 by Jim Shooter Jonathan Shapiro, cartoonist for the Cape Times under the pen name Zapiro, wins the Principal Prince Claus Award Canada's Doug Wright Awards are to become an annual affair December 9, 2005: Bill Griffith and James Sturm are interviewed by Washington Post comics page editor Suzanne Tobin online December 11, 2005: Roger Sabin reviews recent graphic novels in The Observer December 12, 2005: American cartoonists participate in "Black Ink Monday", producing cartoons for publication based upon the decline in the number of newspapers which keep an editorial cartoonist on staff Tom Spurgeon interviews Comic Book Legal Defence Fund Executive Director Charles Brownstein December 13, 2005: The Village Voice nominates three graphic novels within its favorite 25 books of the year December 14, 2005: Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson's run on the Flash Gordon strip is to be collected by Image Comics and Eva Ink Publishing December 15, 2005: Marvel Comics settles its lawsuit with City of Heroes over trademark and copyright issues The judges for the 2006 Eisner Awards are announced December 17, 2005: Jacques Faizant, cartoonist on Le Figaro, retires Andrew Arnold of Time opinion on the ten best comics works released in 2005 December 19, 2005: It is reported that cartoonist Joe Martin is to launch his own syndicate to better promote his own work. He was previously syndicated by Tribune Media Services December 20, 2005: Ben Katchor's new strip is to be debuted in The Forward Comixpedia names its 25 People in Webcomics for 2005 December 26, 2005: Marvel Comics is to produce custom sized comic book inserts featuring Spider-Man for distribution via newspapers December 28, 2005: Cartoonists Mike Luckovich and Mike Peters nominate some of their favorite editorial cartoons of the year Audrey Puente reports on A New Golden Age of Comics for CBS Kurt Busiek signs an exclusive two-year agreement with DC Comics It is reported that Robert Crumb has filed suit against Amazon regarding usage of his Keep on