FANS HAVE turned up the heat for “JC100.”

Aug. 15 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Julia Child, the trailblazing TV chef who made French cooking accessible to many Americans — becoming a jolly presence in our living rooms and an inspiration in our kitchens.

Google is celebrating her centenary with a colorful homepage Doodle that displays the array of her talents, from poultry to dessert — with the top of the Google “G” sitting in the first pot.

Child, who was born in Pasadena, died in nearby Santa Barbara in 2004 just two days shy of her 92nd birthday.

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. (2012 GOOGLE) Beyond her TV series and cookbooks, Child is perhaps best known in wider popular culture for prominent depictions of her: by Dan “Save the Liver!” Aykroyd in the ’70s on “Saturday Night Live” (Aykroyd being about the same height as Child: 6-foot-2); and by Meryl Streep in Nora Ephron’s “Julie & Julia” from 2009 — a role for which she received a best-actress Oscar nomination.

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And then there’s the cultural attraction that is Child’s own famed Massachusetts kitchen. The Post’s Bonnie S. Benwick writes that the Smithsonian — which “created one of the National Museum of American History’s most beloved exhibits” out of the chef’s authentic contents — is reopening the kitchen for the anniversary, where the Hall of Agriculture once stood.

Inés Estrada, Jaime Hernandez, Anders Nilsen, Ethan Rilly and Matthew Thurber are among the multiple nominees for the esteemed 2012 Ignatz Award, the Small Press Expo announced Monday morning.

Also competing in multiple categories are Tessa Brunton and Lale Westvind — who will go head to head for the Promising New Talent award.

This year’s Ignatz jurors were Edie Fake, Minty Lewis, Dylan Meconis, Lark Pien and Julia Wertz.

The 2012 expo will be Sept. 15-16 in North Bethesda.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Outstanding Artist

Marc Bell – “Pure Pajamas” (Drawn & Quarterly)

Inés Estrada — “Ojitos Borrosos” (Self-published)

Jaime Hernandez — “Love and Rockets / New Stories” (Fantagraphics)

Craig Thompson — “Habibi” (Pantheon)

Matthew Thurber — “1 800 Mice” (Picturebox)

IN A JERSEY CITY HOTEL CONFERENCE ROOM, I finally entered Joe Kubert’s educational foxhole. One of the most renowned teachers in comics was at the table before scores of us, giving a talk and drawing with a marksman’s precision. Many students have attended the renowned Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art (known worldwide as simply the Kubert School) in this very state, but here we were, many of us veteran artists, lucky enough to listen to insights from professor first-class Joe Kubert. Because when he spoke and drew, it was always a master class.

The talk took place at the National Cartoonist Society’s 2010 Reuben Awards, where later that weekend, Kubert received the group’s Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at a black-tie ceremony, where he was hailed from the stage as the “kindest man” in cartooning (as if to exhibit his kindness, his acceptance speech was a mere two words: “Thank you”). Also gracing the gala were fellow cartoon greats Jerry Robinson and Bill Gallo.

Since that May night, Robinson and Gallo have passed, and now we have lost Kubert. Joe Kubert died over the weekend at age 85, confirmed his son David Kubert.

The legends are leaving us too swiftly.

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Joe Kubert at his drawing table in 2006 at the Kubert School in Dover, N.J. (MIKE DERER - AP)

IF YOU’RE A SELF-DESCRIBED NERD of both superheroes and fonts, as Matthew Olin is, it’s only a matter of time before you begin melding the two into highly creative mutations. And with his passion for both Gotham and Gotham-Book, Olin is quite the inspired visual alchemist.

Olin showed an early affinity for fonts in grade school, as he tried to match the typography of historic texts. Then, as his boyhood interest grew in Batman and the X-Men, an imagination was primed for what would become, by last year, his MFA Thesis Exhibition.

Olin — a Duluth, Minn.-based designer who works for the marketing/communications firm WestmorelandFlint — has drawn attention this month after posting a gallery of what he calls his “Superhero Typographic Classifications.”

These creations are so elegant and visually playful, Comic Riffs caught up with Olin to ask him about his font of nerd knowledge — and how that illuminates his work.

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But will his main villain be Harvey “Two-Typeface” Dent? (courtesy of MATTHEW OLIN ) .

MICHAEL CAVNA: So Matthew, how did inspiration strike for this artwork? What, in other words, is the origin story of these illustrations?

MATTHEW OLIN: Aside from my childhood dreams of one day becoming a superhero, I found myself sharing my passion for branding and design by trying to relate them to a more universal idea. I realized that our core understanding of a superhero — who he/she is, how he/she acts and what he/she stands for — comes from simply hearing their name or viewing their logo, which is essentially how we interact with brands.

From there, it was just a matter of figuring out how to disseminate those correlations and make them both approachable and understandable.

AVENGERS RE-ASSEMBLE! Joss Whedon will return to the scene of his greatest commercial victory.

The “Avengers” director has signed on to write and direct the sequel, said Disney CEO Bob Iger, who in a conference call Tuesday called the first ”Avengers” a “phenomenal success,” according to multiple reports.

Iger and Marvel also announced that Whedon will create a "Marvel-based" live-action series for ABC, which is owned by Disney.

“Joss Whedon has signed an exclusive deal with Marvel Studios for film and television through the end of June 2015,” Marvel said in a statement about the 48-year-old “Buffy and the Vampire Slayer” creator.

“The Avengers” — which united such Disney/Marvel film properties as Iron-Man, Thor, Captain America and Hulk — has grossed more than $616-million domestically and nearly $1.5-billion overall since its May opening — making it the biggest film of all time not directed by James Cameron, according to boxofficemojo.com.

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Writer and director Joss Whedon will return for “The Avengers 2", Disney announced Tuesday. (Matt Sayles - AP)

Iger did not discuss any production or release dates for “Avengers 2.” Among the related Marvel films, “Iron Man 3” is due to debut next May; the “Thor” sequel is due out November 2013; and the ”Captain America” sequel is set for April 2014.