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A Life Lived in Comics Day 26: That Time I Went to the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
Despite my listing the several manga series I follow in Day 24, Japan itself has always held less fascination for me than it seems to for many in the nerd set. Don’t get me wrong—my years of fandom for...
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My fear for the new season of Community . . .
. . . is not that it won’t be as good, but rather that it will be. Which sounds weird, because I love Community and will be sad and will miss it if it returns and isn’t the same. But at the same time,...
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Howard the Duck
I was two years old when the George Lucas–produced Howard the Duck film was released, and by the time I became a comics reader nearly ten years later, it was largely forgotten except as a cautionary...
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Tomorrow
SEVEN YEAR ITCH Seven years is the longest I ever did anything. Tomorrow will be the seventh anniversary of my first day at Dark Horse Comics. I started at the age of twenty-four, and since then I have...
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After you pitch, it’s the editor’s turn
Making comics is a skill that takes a lot of practice, a lot of effort, and a lot of failure to master. Pitching comics is also a skill, a very different one, but with the same learning curve. It’s...
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New Gig! Starburns Industries!
I tried to bring Dan Harmon’s ingenious sitcom Community to comics for years, and came close a couple times. I could see what it would look like, could imagine the fun the writers and characters would...
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A Tale of Two “Spoilers”
WARNING: This essay contains no spoilers, but only because I don’t care. Was 2015 the year of the spoiler? Aversion to any public discussion of plot details has been bubbling up since DVRs became...
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Self-Promotion from the Shadows
Four months into freelance editing, my daily life isn’t much like it used to be. Instead of commuting to Dark Horse, I work at a cleared-off desk in my apartment or, weather permitting, at one of the...
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Millennials’ Issues with Clinton Are Rooted in Iraq and 2008
A couple weeks ago Slate‘s Double X Gabfest discussed why Millennials don’t support Hillary Clinton for president in greater numbers. Something I think everyone failed to mention is when people in...
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In Classic Hollywood, Anderson and Duchovny might have been the franchise,...
The X-Files completed its brief revival run of six new episodes last night. Apart from a standalone film released in 2008, this was the first time its lead characters Dana Scully and Fox Mulder had...
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