Sugar and Spike and Spike" series...is the most charming thing I've ever seen in comics." DC attempted to license "Sugar and Spike" as a syndicated newspaper strip but was unsuccessful. Sales on the "Sugar and Spike" issues of "The Best of DC" were strong enough that DC announced plans for a new ongoing series featuring the characters. The project was never launched for unknown reasons. Mayer had an agreement with DC that no one else could write Sugar and Spike. However, they have occasionally made cameo appearances in modern comic books. They are rescued by the underwater heroine Dolphin in "Showcase" #100. They
Gender Through Comic Books in live interviews with comic book creators with questions submitted via Twitter. There has been some controversy over issues of gender and patriarchy related to MOOCS, and Blanch's class served to break through barriers related to gender, the comics medium, and pedagogy. The course was divided into six week-long modules and covered the topics of: "What is gender?", "Gender and Culture: How we learn our gender", "Who is producing comic book culture?", "Femininity", "Masculinity", and "Gendered Spaces and Consuming Comics". Significant to the course content were the interviews with prominent comic book creators: Terry Moore author of "Strangers in Paradise";