The Secret of the Wednesday’s Haul

A staple of American comics is the autobiographical comic. As long as you can draw, you always can tell the story of your own life.
Reading the latest volume of Yotsuba&!, one panel struck me as very Eddie Campbell-like, particularly from his Alec volumes. Which made me wonder, is there any autobiographical manga out [...]

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There are only two comic magazines that I feel the need to collect back issues of– Amazing Heroes and The Comics Journal. It’s hard to believe that there was once a time that Fantagraphics wrote about and championed mainstream superheroes but this was still in the early days of the direct market when it [...]

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Sandman #19 came out when I was in college, possibly when I was taking a Shakespeare course. Their magical take on Shakespeare’s magical A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM, cemented the wonderful reputation the series would enjoy. If nothing else, check out last year’s Absolute Sandman just to see a great representation of this issue. [...]

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