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Carnival of souls: Fluxblog 2008, Gabrielle Bell, Eleanor Davis, Grant...
* Drop what you’re doing and download Matthew Perpetua’s 8-disc Fluxblog 2008 Survey Mix. Ooftah, the first half of disc 2. * Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit is now a trilogy. Whoever tells me this and...
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Carnival of souls: The greatest comics photo of all time, Pope Hats, Tippi...
* Behold: the greatest photo in the history of comics. Top row, from left: Gary Panter, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Ivan Brunetti, Seth, Danniel Clowes, Alison Bechdel, Gary Lieb, Justin...
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Carnival of souls: Ignatz Awards, Roxy Music, more
* The 2012 Ignatz Award nominees have been announced. Insofar as Jaime Hernandez’s work in Love and Rockets: New Stories #4 is recognized adequately, or even at all, this cements the Ignatz as the...
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The Carnival of Souls Returns
* One’s temptation to crumple the entire comics internet up and throw it in the garbage decreases considerably when everyone starts writing about Chris Ware. The Comics Journal is doing a whole series...
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The Carnival of Souls Rides Again
* It’s wonderful that we’ve had going on two solid weeks of non-stop Chris Ware Building Stories talk on the comics internet, though it’s also sad that I haven’t participated in any of it because I...
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Carnival of souls: special post-BCGF edition
* The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival was this past Saturday. I missed it because I was busy throwing a surprise 60th birthday party for my mom, which went great, thanks, but it’s still a bummer...
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The Carnival of Souls Christmas Spectacular
* It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Tom Spurgeon has begun his annual series of lengthy holiday interviews with comics luminaries, with Alison Bechdel kicking things off. I’ll probably get less...
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Carnival of souls: Gossip Girl, Edie Fake, Fluxblog 2012, Chris Ware on...
* Gossip Girl aired its series finale a few weeks ago. I watched every episode of that show and spent much of that time delighted in...
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Carnival of souls: “The Winds of Winter,” Box Brown, giant squid, more
* Tom Spurgeon’s complete holiday interview series is up at the Comics Reporter. Go ye and click; so far I’ve really enjoyed the interviews with writer Mark Waid, cartoonists Dean Haspiel, Derf...
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Carnival of souls: Clive Barker, Julia Gfrörer, Michael DeForge, Beyoncé, My...
* Clive Barker revealed that he worked as a hustler through the publication of Weaveworld in 1987, in a Facebook conversation with the artist Dave McKean. By that point he’d published all six Books of...
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