I got no business sharing Instagram stuff, as I don’t move around in there, but man, this is the best strip I’ve found in a while: found it on Twitter:
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Category: comic books
Best of 2019 so far: the February post
Usually don’t put words in these, but this is the first for the year, and this year’s going to look different. Not just the running title (different titles make them…
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Categories: comic books / movies/tv / paleo
The Magic of Comics
I love finding panels and pages and tricks and storytelling that only works on the comic book page, then throwing it up on the screen for my students. Panels and…
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Best of 2018
Best of 2018—the January roundup (for December)
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Busiek on making comics
His stuff’s always good to read. Guess this is one reason why: the attention, the do-overs, the insistence on getting it right. We should all be so conscientious, and so…
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Categories: comic books / craft
Best of 2018 so far—the November roundup
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On Zombies
Excellent graphic for this one: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/brains-rotting-flesh-and-infection-zombie-101-with-an-expert-cu-professor
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Categories: comic books / movies/tv / news
Bats
Via the incomparable Jolyon Yates: story’s at Automata. Cool thing about having somebody with Jolyon’s chops do this with a story? It’s that the story gets better. Artists, man, they…
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Best of 2018 so far—the September roundup
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13th Night
“13th Night centers around a colorful cast of college-aged characters visiting the First Folio on its tour to the University of Colorado Boulder. They get swept up into a mysterious…
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Categories: books / comic books
Horror Comics Wrap-Up
Or, intro? Anyway, I had 750 words to sum up horror comics for NPR, since they kept coming up when we were curating the 100 Horror list. Was cool, trying…
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Best of 2018 so far—the August roundup
Best of 2018 — halfway through
Every year when I cobble together some best-of-the-year list from half-remembered this and that, I always end up remembering stuff from the last few months instead of the whole year, and feeling like that’s all unfair. So, in an effort to work around that, and trusting that I actually come back and LOOK at this in five months, but mostly because I’m just now thinking of it, here’s my favorites so far:
Comic Book:
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