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  Free Comic Book Day

  05.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tomorrow, Saturday, May 2nd, is the first Saturday in May – that means it’s free comic book day!  Go HERE to check out what stores around you are participating then go grab some free comics.

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  Suggestions: John Malloy

  03.30.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  After a brief 2 week hiatus the suggestions articles are returning. Today’s list comes from an artist that I’ve mentioned a few times on the blog named John Malloy.  John’s artwork straddles the boundaries between comic book surrealism and the traditional ‘true to form’ drawing style.   Many of his illustrations present a distorted take [...]

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  Suggestions: Samuel James Clatterbuck

  03.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  This week’s suggestions come from Samuel James Clatterbuck – a good friend and an avid comics book reader.  Sammy writes for a comics blog called Comics For Serious. “These are some comics that are good introductory stories that aren’t, to be honest, bullshit. Non-comics-readers turn to super hero stories like The Watchmen and The Dark [...]

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  Comic books: Y: The Last Man, Sleepwalk: And Other Stories

  07.31.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I went to a used book store the other day and was very surprised to find a 2 collected issues of Y-The Last Man and a copy of Adrian Tomine’s Sleepwalk: And Other Stories. Sleepwalk: And Other Stories is a collection of the first 4 issues of Adrian Tomine’s comic series Optic Nerve.  16 short [...]