This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's weekly’s round up of superhero news, DC Comics causes a stir with Before Watchmen and shuffles some of its writers, Marvel teases Spider-Man events, Mark Waid on The Omega Effect and the end of Irredeemable, January puts up some strong sales numbers, and more.

In a moving tribute to the late cartoonist Harvey Pekar, Alan Moore, acclaimed creator of Watchmen, spent more than 2 hours answering questions and remembering Pekar during a live video conference for fans that donated money to the Harvey Pekar memorial project on Kickstarter.

Cartoonist Jimmy Gownley started with a doodle of a little girl and ended up with Amelia Rules, a popular kids’ comic that eventually became a self-published graphic novel and then an eight-volume series, now published by Simon & Schuster.

In what looks to be the graphic publishing literary event of the year, Seven Stories Press will publish the first volume of the Graphic Canon: Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons in May, the first of a three-volume anthology of graphic interpretations of the world’s literary classics created by 130 comics artists and illustrators. The next two volumes, Volume 2: Kubla Khan to the Brontë Sisters to the Picture of Dorian Gray and Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest, will be published in July and October of 2012, respectively.

Graphicly, a digital comics vendor and marketplace, is launching an automated digital distribution platform for publishers and self-publishers.

After years of rumors and, more recently, leaks of character designs, DC Comics has announced plans to publish Before Watchmen, seven interconnected series of new comics stories based on the superhero epic, Watchmen.

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World's run down of all things superhero, Marvel offers a new line of all-ages comics and cancels three series, DC Comics sheds some light on its big name releases for the Spring and Fall, as well as the release of the New-52 collected editions and superheroes get nominated for GLAAD awards.

Capstone, a children’s educational and library publisher, has reached a licensing deal with DC Entertainment to create library hardcovers and paper-over-board editions of DC Comics titles.

This week in Super Folk, PW Comics World’s weekly survey of superhero comics, we take stock of DC’s new logo, a new line of Marvel prose novels based on their characters, new digital-only releases from Dark Horse, IDW and DC, and the end of an unlikely creative team up between Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld.

Beginning in March, the books and periodicals of independent comics publisher Oni Press will sport a new logo.