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    BY Clark Burscough Apr 30, 2021

    Every week, the comics news attempts to defeat Clark Burscough. “There’s no way he can blurb us all”, they say. And yet, every week their reviews, interviews and points-of-views are sliced, diced, codified and linked to in one simple column, where they can be archived unread for future generations to ignore. Wait: that’s not what is supposed to happen! Get to clicking, you children of fortune! Continue reading →

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    I Like Crap

    BY Austin Price Apr 29, 2021

    Disposable lives amidst a disposable culture in a disposable comic – Austin Price tackles the world of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man, a boys’ manga not unlike many other boys’ manga, and many other disposable things. Yet there is something about the buzz of the motor on this thing… Continue reading →

    Excerpt: Tummy Bugs

    BY The Editors Apr 28, 2021

    Thanks to Breakdown Press, we’re pleased to share this excerpt from Tummy Bugs, by Leomi Sadler. Continue reading →

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    CW: This post contains explicit, drawn pornographic images. In this conversation from The Comics Journal #280 (January 2007), Frank Thorne talks about a cartooning career that ultimately spanned more than 60 years. He worked in genres such as SF, sword and sorcery and history on comic books and strips — most notably, on Marvel’s Red Sonja title — before following his bliss. Continue reading →

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