The Grey Age of Comics: 1970-71
One of the oldest and most frequent questions debated around comic shops is “when does the Silver...
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Category: Jiminy Christmas!
What is a sustainable number of sales?
Anyone who glances at my reviews here and elsewhere can see I don’t read mainstream...
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The Comics Code in 1974
I ran across this great 1974 article reprinted from Inside Comics titled The Comics Code: 20 Years...
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Reading “Adventures”
My son and I attended the Forest City Comicon and afterwards wandered over to Heroes Comics. We...
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Reprints: price versus quality
Last week a small corner of the comics internet exploded over an article on The Comics Journal...
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Fan Expo 2017
Another year, another Fan Expo. Like most of this decade, I hummed and hawed about going. In the...
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Kirby 100: My First Kirby
Jack Kirby would be celebrating his 100th birthday this year, today in fact, and as deserved...
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Con Ticket Prices: Ridiculous
I had lunch with a friend Saturday who had an extra ticket for the Niagara Falls Comic Con and...
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My 2017 TCAF
Another amazing Toronto Comic Arts Festival, or TCAF, this past weekend. It’s a free show in...
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My Reading List, 2016 Edition
In 2012 I noticed I was buying far more comic books than I was reading. I love a good sale and...
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Tsundoku, Collecting, Reading
Two disparate articles from OZY and The Simple Dollar have recently put me to task on my hobby of...
Read MoreComic Publishers Don’t Need To Pay For Advertising
There’s been a lot of talk this year about large comic sites, comics journalism and not making money. Comic Book Resources last week changed their design and brand to CBR. Augie De Blieck Jr. had an excellent write up...
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