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Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: “How I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp” by Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col & Josh Adams, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting & Commentary – https://t.co/ukxscgMQFY

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Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: R. Kikuo Johnson, creator of the graphic novels “No One Else” and “Night Fisher,” is one of ten emerging writers to receive a Whiting Award for this year – https://t.co/lOnnYPB0gO

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Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: “Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story,” the 10¢ comic published in 1957 to promote non-violent protest for civil rights. Script by Alfred Hassler & Benton Resnik, art by Sy Barry (uncredited) – https://t.co/SQk4IHpy3W

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Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: @RaulTheThird, artist of "Lowriders in Space," "Stuntboy, in the Meantime" & the "¡Vamos!" series, appears with picture-book author @JoshFunkBooks at @WhitelamBooks in Reading, Sat, Sept 10, 2pm – https://t.co/ExFSiXIBnD

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Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: As he takes on the Fantastic Four (and a new art style), Alex Ross speaks about working in the shadow of Jack Kirby – https://t.co/SwMb2yo56q https://t.co/4oLD1gkXNZ

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Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: Interview with Maia Kobabe, creator of “Gender Queer,” about eir artistic journey from studying picture books to producing a graphic novel that’s become one of the most embattled books in the country – https://t.co/TnkCgCHNhB

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Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: “Einstein,” a new graphic biography by Jim Ottaviani @gtlabsrat and our pal Jerel Dye, premieres at the Brookline Booksmith @booksmithtweets on Tuesday, November 15, 7pm – https://t.co/LargOHitdk https://t.co/K4B7t314GL

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Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: Brian Fies shares his process behind the graphic novel “The Last Mechanical Monster” plus some lessons. He says, “[I] had drawn about 100 [thumbnail] pages of it, when I decided I needed to start over.” – https://t.co/CAvTtPPPpr https://t.co/phTB6NctDK

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Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: Publishers Weekly names Kate Beaton's memoir "Ducks" among its top ten books of 2022 and lauds four more new comics, including a biography of a Massachusetts politician – https://t.co/XOw0p4a8fO https://t.co/NNZZHYQzcu

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Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: This year’s Hugo Award for best comic goes to Damian Duffy and John Jennings’s adaptation of Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”. Full list of awards – https://buff.ly/3dfG8G5