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Harvey Pekar RIP

Another independent visionary, gone sooner than anyone would’ve liked. You’ll know him from this film if nowhere else: Check out these Pekar web comics for a taste of his distinctive, self-examining style.

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2010 07 13 morgue And also Comments (1)

Frank Sidebottom RIP

I didn’t know what the hell to make of this when I was a kid reading Oink! comic. One of those inexplicable British things that, as a Kiwi kid, you encountered from time to time in the UK’s pop-culture output. Frank Sidebottom was the creation of Chris Sievey, and it was somewhere between comic genius [...]

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2010 07 07 morgue And also Comments (5)

What a weekend

Pic by Eric, from his blog post about Armageddon This weekend had so much packed into it, but it all came out pretty well. Went to Armageddon Pop Culture Expo with Eric. Every year I say I won’t go back next year, but they keep bringing over people who played the Doctor, and occasionally cool [...]

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2010 04 06 morgue And also Comments (9)

Experiment have seen linkys!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy April Fools Holy Thursday linky. I was all keen to do an April Fools Pantheon of Plastic entry, following DavidR’s suggestion, but after far too long clicking through action figure custom galleries and flipping the pages of Tomart’s Encyclopedia & Price Guide to Action Figure Collectibles, I still hadn’t found any photos that felt [...]

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Captain America #602

What with Spider-Man and Wolverine and Iron Man being some of the biggest movies of the last ten years, everyone’s a comic-book superhero fan now. Or so I thought, until the huge controversy over an issue of Captain America erupted a month or so back. SHAKOOOOOOM! Story goes like this: in this comic, this dude [...]

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2010 03 16 morgue Everything Political
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