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  Last Man Lost

  Hot Comics Scribe Brian K. Vaughn Crosses Over

  PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2007

  He’s one of the "100 people who contributed to the culture,” according to USA Today (between Tom Waits and Al Gore). Scientific American pr...

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  Home Sweet Homo

  Alison Bechdel Comes Out With A Graphic Masterpiece

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007

  When Alison Bechdel first took a tentative stab at drawing a comic strip, it came from a desire to see herself on the page. Not literally,...

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  A Bad Man By Any Name

  Stagger Lee's Fascinating Journey Into Myth

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  That he was a bad, bad man, no one disputes — not Woody Guthrie, not Fats Domino, nor Ike and Tina Turner, Dr. John or Neil Diamond. They c...

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  Hat Trick

  Lewis Carroll's Alice Gets Another New Makeover

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Lewis Carroll’s 1865 nonsense book Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and its 1871 follow-up, Through the Looking Glass, are amongst the most...

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  Kicking Ass

  Gail Simone Leads the Charge for Women in Comics

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Anyone who has read Gail Simone’s online column, You’ll All Be Sorry! on the Comic Book Resources website (www.comicbookresources.com) know...

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  My Life in Pictures

  Belle and Sebastian Get An Unusual Tribute

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Music never happens in a vacuum. Whether it's falling in step with the legacy of one's heroes or consciously straying away from an establis...

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  Drawing the Line

  Stage Magician Turns Tragedy into Art

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Stage magic is, if you'll pardon the pun, tricky business — proper planning needs to be extensive and invisible; correct tools must be empl...

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  Fanboys and Hacks

  Hollywood Talent Tackles the Comics Game

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  Playing a movie superhero gives you the inherent right to try your hand at the medium. Or that seems to be the supposition of actor Thomas...