Killjoy McCoy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Nothing beats Scott McCloud’s “understanding comics” A lot of people hate it but it’s 100% resentment that somebody attempted to formalize a working definition. Hurts them even more because the definition is correct

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The idea of x-factor is that Chris Claremont was starting to spin out of control but was popular. And editorial wanted to get a back-to-basics x-men. It’s a compromise. But the result is a really solid foundation for a comic book series! X-Factor is great

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my duties as president of dc comics would involve texting Jim Lee at odd hours demanding that he draw concept illustrations of whatever stupid thing I thought of in the shower

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Another comic that doesn’t get enough credit when people say “comic” is Moomin which started when Tove Jansson said “alright already, I will write and draw the best comic strip mentally conceivable, fine,” and then casually hired her brother to do it later when she got too busy.

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The Mini Memoir Project by Paper Rocket Minicomics https://t.co/sWQiLPrdN3

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I just watched a few Instagram reels from an actor who is so good at acting but she’s really good at identifying how stupid movies are and so all of her reels are insufferable character bits, I can’t watch any more of this but she deserves an academy award

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shout out to Julia Wertz whose book “impossible people” is out and it looks fantastic

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george orwell 1984 should have entered the public domain in 2020 but in the united states it is renewed until 2044. Which is fine, i guess, because conservatives are still pretending that it's in support of *them*

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I read another story from Neil Gaiman’s “Norse Mythology” and then chased it with the final issue of Hellboy the Bones of Giants, which is literally the same thing

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dam even Joyce Carol Oates is going in on them. The Catholic League is toast