*stands up*
NO, I AM JEWEL!
WeeksAndWeeks
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1) We're talking about a fictional character.
That is…scarily plausible.
And shittng herself upon hearing so.
Me whenever I see Lena Dunham naked:
Would you identify this bucketful of your brother?
You should get on that - your school's robbing you blind.
Yes - familiar, relatable prediciments, like…grad school Jell-O wrestling, apparently.
Adam Driver awaits your apology.
Speaking of Pogo, have you seen this? http://www.tcj.com/reviews/…
I think she was connecting it with your mention of newspaper comics.
Not yet, alas. I haven't even gotten to Picture This yet! *bad Lynda Barry fan*
At my small-town Books-A-Million (the only non-used bookstore within 50 miles), superheroes and manga dominate, with even the Peanuts, Pogo and Donald Duck reprints getting stocked in the one-bookcase newspaper "comics" section (as opposed to the four-case-each "Graphic Novels" and "Manga" areas) right next to the…
I hadn't heard about the Manga collapse - that's a shame. I haven't gotten into it myself (largely for a phillistine reason, too - the right-to-left reading procedure messes with my Western mind too much), but I thought it was one of the few success stories in comics right now.
Between that and the Lynda Barry "Everything" collection (only 1 of 10 released so far), there hasn't been much luck in publishing alternative weekly cartoonists recently.
That is a terrible band name for so many reasons.
I have yet to read it, but I wonder if Drawn Together - his recent collection of collaborative comics with his wife Aline, an epochal cartoonist in her own right - might've been the better book that got overshadowed.
Two points -