Graphic novels are ubiquitous these days but back in the early 1980s were a fairly new concept, and something you could only get at one of the few comic book stores that had begun popping up as the direct market began to take hold. Later in the decade and the early 1990s, stores like Waldenbooks …
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Shrill
For episode 10 of Required Reading, Stella and I covered biography, autobiography, and memoir as a genre. Had I read Lindy West's Shrill back then, I would have heartily recommended it on that episode. If you're not familiar with Lindy West, she is a writer who was a longtime columnist for Jezebel and currently contributes …
Thor by Walt Simonson vols 1 and 2
About a year ago, Amazon was having one of those massive Kindle graphic novel sales that was all Marvel books (it may have been because Infinity War was coming out) and I think I bought what had to be a couple of hundred dollars' worth of digital trade paperbacks for $.99-$2.99. Among them were the …
Breaking Rules on and Reaping the Benefits of FCBD 2019
Free Comic Book Day was last Saturday. I've gone just about every year for the past six or seven years, and I have the same M.O. every year. I go in completely blind to what is available (i.e., I don't look at the solicits in Previews) and plan on dropping at least a little money …
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The Worst Team Money Could Buy
I am a long-suffering New York Mets fan who is part of a specific generation where the "suffering" part of that compound adjective took a while to come along. I began following the team in the 1985 season and was nine years old when they won their second (and to date last) World Series in …
The Uncollecting 