Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #9: Turn It Off and Turn It On Again
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #9 by Drew Barth Turn It Off and Turn It On Again Most monthly comics are built upon legacies and reboots of older characters. Essentially, most superhero comic fiction is officially-sanctioned fanfiction as the original authors are either no longer writing, no longer living, or both. As a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #8: The Royal Road of Comics
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #8 by Drew Barth The Royal Road of Comics Last week was looking at the numbers and making some guesses about why some comics sell and potentially why others aren’t doing as well, but what makes those comics good? What makes them resonate with readers in such a way… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #7: Looking at Numbers
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #7 by Drew Barth Looking at Numbers Not too long ago I received an email from Diamond Book Distributors about the top selling graphic novels of 2018. These are the kinds of lists I love to see because there’s always a direct comparison between what’s considered to be… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #6: Get Loud
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #6 by Drew Barth Get Loud Influence is a two-way street. While comics have always worn many of their influences proudly, it gets a little more complicated with music. Musicians will always be fans, but at times it’s a bit more tricky to add that to their work.… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #5: The Music Connection
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #5 by Drew Barth The Music Connection There’s a deep and wide history interconnecting music and comics that goes back decades. For now I’m just going to focus on one aspect of it: the ways in which music has influenced comics. These influences go deep. Anything from Bob… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #4: The Middle
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #4 by Drew Barth The Middle It’s hard to talk about comics without mentioning specific runs of things. Walt Simonson’s run on Thor, Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette’s Swamp Thing, Paul Cornell and Pete Wood’s Action Comics, etc. “Runs” as they’re typically known are portions of longer running… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #3: JUMP for Me
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #3 by Drew Barth JUMP for Me My first major foray into print comics was with Shonen Jumpwhen I was about twelve years old. It wasn’t hard to tempt me with the first issue of it I saw at a CVS—the Yu-Gi-Ohcover and free card on the inside… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #2: Guess I’ll DIE
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #2 by Drew Barth Guess I’ll DIE First issues are weird things. They’re thesis statements on a series; a contract with the reader that assures them the three to five dollars they paid for that first issue was worth it; a firm artistic statement on what this creative… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #1: New Year
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #1 by Drew Barth New Year 2019 is already breathing down our necks and I feel the fear. So that means it’s time to dump myself headlong into comics to displace the existential dread of the next twelve months in global warming reporting. Ha. Ha. Ha. Anyway. 2019… Continue reading
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