August 2010
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Eve of Something
Ten years ago today I was anxiously awaiting the debut of Comic Book Galaxy, which came a day later, on September 1st, 2000. Personal matters have kept me from any major posts the past few weeks, and I really did want to have something major put together for the tenth anniversary, but the universe had other plans. I know at least one Galaxy founder has something planned for tomorrow, and I am...
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Daily Breakdowns 098 - A Friendly Game
A Friendly Game
Concept/Pencils - Joe Pimienta
Writing/Inks/Letters - Lindsay Hornsby
Tones - Lauren Affe
Publisher - SLG Publishing. $14.95 USD
Comics is still a pretty young medium in terms of a lot of subject matter. Aside from Grant Morrison, not many comics writers have tackled animal cruelty that I can recall, though it’s of course nothing new in prose fiction. In this graphic...
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Recommended: Tom Spurgeon's 25 Emblematic Comics...
You probably know that Tom Spurgeon’s longer think-pieces are always entertaining and thought provoking, and perhaps you’ve already seen his 25 Emblematic Comics of the ’70s, but in case you missed it, I wanted to highlight it here. I started reading comics in the 1970s, probably 1971 or ‘72, and was in my early-to-mid teens during the period Tom is talking about, a time...
