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Today, Robert Newsome interviews Kyle Starks @TheKyleStarks - Rick and Morty comics writer and creator of action-comedy titles like Sexcastle and Kill Them All. Learn about his life, his motto, and his passion for the Marvel superhero D-Man. https://t.co/aZ3SCAhpuW https://t.co/xFeJ6MfeZ5

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Chris Mautner @cmautner reviews The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: The Idiots Abroad and Other Follies, collecting a lush 1980s social satire by Gilbert Shelton & Paul Mavrides: “If anything is due for a re-examination… it’s the duo’s artistic chops.” https://t.co/5QmqdJb6tB https://t.co/sCziUc9n4g

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Tom Shapira @tomshaps reviews Aztec Ace: The Complete Collection, a compendium of the early ‘80s adventure series from Doug Moench, Dan Day, Michael Hernandez and others, released by Dark Horse & IT’S ALIVE!, the publishing project of the late Drew Ford. https://t.co/gj5CE6cGMF https://t.co/G6cmdYhcif

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Tim Hayes @pistolerosa reviews Orphan and the Five Beasts, a Dark Horse collection of all issues so far from a continuing martial arts series by writer/artist James Stokoe. https://t.co/UukU463DFS https://t.co/UUVPaPM36U

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Bob Levin plunges deep into one of the most idiosyncratic comics of last year: The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, an exploration of “comic-art metaphysics” and photorealist strip art from Cerebus creator Dave Sim and late-coming co-author Carson Grubaugh. https://t.co/gYVgd4f1T9 https://t.co/9d6sOdTU1j

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Today on the site, Hagai Palevsky @DialHForHagai interviews Briana Loewinsohn, whose debut graphic novel, Ephemera: A Memoir, exhibits a striking visual sense and narrative confidence; the two discuss childhood, memoir and the joy of drawing plants. https://t.co/mtarzRbDnn https://t.co/FuOg0wrB9c

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Matt Seneca @mattseneca reviews Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee, a new-in-English edition of French cartoonist and Disney animation vet Régis Loisel’s homage to the Mouse newspaper strips of bygone times. https://t.co/xZqNSSSISE https://t.co/ZlXYisLPfY

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Paul Tumey reviews artist Fred Fordham’s graphic novel adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: “it works like a narcotic… it is about the very numbing, the very banishment of rough edges that its craftsmanship delivers.” https://www.tcj.com/reviews/brave-new-world/ https://t.co/R42KYFEnq5

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce reviews the ‘graphic edition’ of Timothy Snyder’s popular admonition On Tyranny from artist Nora Krug, but finds it “just a straightforward reproduction of the original work” with little unique value. http://www.tcj.com/reviews/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century/ https://t.co/UsTDh5SSXE

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Ian Thomas reviews Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey, a Dark Horse collection of the newest allegorical SF/costumed (anti-)hero series from veteran writer/artist Matt Wagner. https://t.co/Z3MVRtAaR3 https://t.co/91PWdiUWvs