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2009 Friends of Lulu Nominations

By admin | Published: October 6, 2009
The nominations for the 2009 Friends of Lulu Awards, honoring the people, projects and characters who most promoted female participation in comics have just been announced. Voting details are here. Voting is open via email until October 19th, with winners being announced in November. Kim Yale Award for Best New Talent (must have first published work within the last three years) Kate Beaton, Hark, A Vagrant Liz Baillie, My Brain Hurts Mariko Tamaki, Skim Madeline R
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The Cross Hatch Rehash: SPX 2009 Pt. 1

By anthony | Published: September 29, 2009
Remember the old location? It was great, so much closer to downtown. The restaurants were much better—and closer—than those around the North Bethesda Marriott Convention Center. Remember when the show was held on Friday and Saturday, so everyone could play softball and picnic on Sunday? I don’t. I only began driving down to the Small Press Expo three years ago—not quite enough time, I think, to have developed a glimmering sense of nostalgia for those long gone good old days—you know, when the
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Paul Karasik presents the Fletcher Hank Experience @ Strands in NYC

By admin | Published: September 14, 2009
Eric Reynolds wrote for the Fantagraphics Books blog: Paul Karasik and “The Fletcher Hanks Experience,” an illustrated tour over the brutally surreal Hanks mindscape narrated by the late Fletcher Hanks, Jr. Part visionary lunatic, part vengeful alcoholic, part cartoonist, Fletcher Hanks created the weirdest comic book stories of all time. And he did them back before anyone even knew what a comic book really was.Hanks worked during the first three years of the comic book industry and then vanishe
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